All Building Design articles in 29 August 2008 – Page 3

  • News

    Liverpool hospitals officially open

    2008-08-29T00:00:00Z

    Health secretary Alan Johnson (right) has officially opened the redevelopment of two Liverpool hospitals by Nightingale Associates.

  • Opinion

    Stony greeting

    2008-08-29T00:00:00Z

    Those behind the UK’s new Supreme Court — the Middlesex Guildhall on Parliament Square — are grappling with the question of public art.

  • Opinion

    In a flap

    2008-08-29T00:00:00Z

    Pigeons are posing a problem for Herzog & de Meuron’s Tate Modern extension, so Boots hears.

  • Opinion

    Feeling the pain

    2008-08-29T00:00:00Z

    More than 5,000 experts congregated at Glasgow's Scottish Exhibition & Conference Centre last week for an event that can hardly have been the most cheerful in town.

  • News

    Parry to design Palladio galleries

    2008-08-29T00:00:00Z

    Eric Parry Architects has been appointed by the Royal Academy of Arts to design the gallery space for an exhibition about 16th century architect Andrea Palladio, which opens next January.

  • Opinion

    Manhattan receives a special delivery

    2008-08-29T00:00:00Z

    Five suburban houses in a New York parking lot can show us the future of prefabrication

  • 7/7 memorial: open invitation.
    Opinion

    Closed memorial

    2008-08-29T00:00:00Z

    It is rather surprising that the Royal Parks, which ran the design team competition for the 7/7 memorial, has accepted a design which one can “wander through” (News August 8).

  • News

    Tyneside student wins clinic prize

    2008-08-29T00:00:00Z

    A speech and language therapy clinic by Elaine Neish has won the Architect for Health 2008 health student award.

  • News

    Chocolate scheme to York’s taste

    2008-08-29T00:00:00Z

    Planning officers in York have recommended for approval a scheme by Red Box Design Group to turn the former Terry’s chocolate factory into a mixed-use development boasting 225 residential units.

  • Building Study

    In Detail: Resource Centre, Grizedale, Cumbria

    2008-08-29T00:00:00Z

    Architect: Sutherland Hussey Architects Structural Engineer: Burgess Roughton

  • At the heart of Nicholas Hare Architects’ college extension is a zinc-clad double-height studio theatre.
    News

    Hare’s zinc-clad theatre takes centre stage at Crawley college

    2008-08-29T00:00:00Z

    Nicholas Hare Architects’ £2.7 million extension of the Thomas Bennett Community College in Crawley, West Sussex, has started on site.

  • News

    RIBA calls for Norwich designs

    2008-08-29T00:00:00Z

    The RIBA has launched an invited competition to design up to 100 homes on the Greyhound Opening site in Norwich, less than a mile outside the city centre.

  • Studio E’s City of London Academy in Southwark.
    News

    Practices battle for Southwark schools

    2008-08-29T00:00:00Z

    Studio E Architects and Jestico & Whiles are competing against BDP and Haverstock Associates to win Southwark Council’s £200 million Building Schools for the Future programme.

  • Ian Dungavell: bad hair days.
    Opinion

    Bathing machine

    2008-08-29T00:00:00Z

    Swimming hats off to Ian Dungavell, whose epic swim in every listed Edwardian and Victorian pool in Britain — one length for each year they’ve been open — is to end today at Dulwich Leisure Centre.

  • Features

    Getting design back on track

    2008-08-29T00:00:00Z

    A train journey to Newcastle proved revealing about the art of seeing — and not seeing

  • Opinion

    Don’t judge the RIBA awards

    2008-08-29T00:00:00Z

    The RIBA awards are the most robust and rigorously judged in architecture.

  • News

    Councils will audit homes design

    2008-08-29T00:00:00Z

    Local authorities will now have to report annually on the design quality of new housing built in their areas by marking their performance against a set of 20 Building for Life criteria.

  • News

    Art beside the seaside

    2008-08-29T00:00:00Z

    Rick Mather Architects’ new Eastbourne art gallery, the Towner, is near completion in preparation for an opening in early 2009.

  • The AF moved to Somerset House earlier this summer after the collapse of plans for a new building. “It has potential,” says Ichioka.
    Analysis

    New director Ichioka looks for firmer ground for the Architecture Foundation

    2008-08-29T00:00:00Z

    After a turbulent year in which plans for its Zaha Hadid-designed HQ were scrapped, will a new director mean a different direction for the Architecture Foundation? Will Hurst reports

  • View from the flat above as the team installs the mesh on which the crystals will grow.
    Review

    Growing crystals from architecture

    2008-08-29T00:00:00Z

    Catherine Croft talks to artist Roger Hiorns about Seizure, his project to transform a condemned council flat with copper sulphate