All Building Design articles in 29 February 2008 – Page 2

  • Opinion

    Glasgow kiss-off

    2008-02-29T00:00:00Z

    On Wednesday night last week, viewers across the land were treated to an hour-long Beeb documentary on Richard Rogers.

  • News

    Profession rallies to rescue Smithsons' Robin Hood Gardens

    2008-02-29T00:00:00Z

    NEWS: Extraordinary response to BD campaign as council seeks to ratify demolition ANALYSIS: "It's a great place to live" PLUS: Our petition, comment and archive photographs

  • Nord’s design for the fair
    News

    Planning row threatens Highland homes fair

    2008-02-29T00:00:00Z

    One of Britain’s most innovative housing schemes has been thrown into doubt amid allegations that residents and politicians have not been properly consulted.

  • Hartcliffe Tobacco factory.
    Opinion

    Listing can fail

    2008-02-29T00:00:00Z

    I wish I could share your optimism over the effectiveness of listing to protect post-war buildings (News February 22).

  • News

    Profession rallies to save threatened housing estate

    2008-02-29T00:00:00Z

    Tower Hamlets Council confirms that it will seek to ratify demolition option next week

  • Robin Hood Gardens in 1972 when it was newly completed
    Features

    Estate in its infancy

    2008-02-29T00:00:00Z

    How Robin Hood Gardens looked when first completed in 1972

  • Old newspapers, rolled up into sticks to form trunks, will comprise the walls of the house.
    Review

    Sumer Erek’s newspaper house puts excess newsprint to good use

    2008-02-29T00:00:00Z

    Amanda Birch previews two installations that show how discarded newspapers can have an artistic and useful afterlife

  • News

    Eco-towns ‘won’t tackle housing shortage’

    2008-02-29T00:00:00Z

    Ministers have opened a “Pandora’s box” with plans for eco-towns, a senior government adviser on the controversial policy has warned.

  • News

    No zero-carbon promise at Ecobuild

    2008-02-29T00:00:00Z

    Housing minister Caroline Flint has failed to commit to making new non-domestic buildings zero carbon by 2020, a key target of the UK Green Building Council.

  • Opinion

    Threat to Ealing

    2008-02-29T00:00:00Z

    The criticisms made by Simon Jenkins last week at the RTPI (News February 22) are illustrated perfectly by the proposals to redevelop a major part of Ealing’s town centre.

  • Opinion

    Dropped on us

    2008-02-29T00:00:00Z

    I hope Jonathan Glancey (February 22) does make the trip out to darkest Colchester to enable him to form his opinions in situ on the Lecture Theatre dustbin and Visual Arts Facility golden banana.

  • Opinion

    Voice of Doon

    2008-02-29T00:00:00Z

    Your story suggesting we would redesign our scheme at Doon Street to get planning consent (News February 15) is somewhat misleading.

  • News

    Former RIBA deputy dies

    2008-02-29T00:00:00Z

    Maurice McCarthy, a former RIBA vice president and founder member of the Salaried Architects Group, has died aged 64 after losing his battle with cancer.

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    A demolition job on the truth

    2008-02-29T00:00:00Z

    The landlord’s consultation with tenants at Robin Hood Gardens has been seriously flawed

  • Opinion

    Corrections

    2008-02-29T00:00:00Z

    This week

  • News

    CPRE concedes on housing need

    2008-02-29T00:00:00Z

    The Campaign to Protect Rural England has conceded this week that, in order to meet Britain’s housing needs, it may be necessary to undertake “a small readjustment” of some green belt boundaries.

  • News

    Former schools chief goes east

    2008-02-29T00:00:00Z

    Mukund Patel, former head of schools’ capital at the Department for Children, Schools & Family, is to take up a senior role at a Dubai-based education provider.

  • News

    McAslan in Cheapside

    2008-02-29T00:00:00Z

    A seven-storey, mixed-use scheme by John McAslan & Partners, at Cheapside in the City of London, has been submitted for planning.

  • A magnet-shaped tower will dominate Bolzano’s Science Park.
    News

    Chapman Taylor wins in Bolzano

    2008-02-29T00:00:00Z

    Chapman Taylor has won an international competition to regenerate part of the northern Italian city of Bolzano.

  • News

    Lighthouse centre board changes

    2008-02-29T00:00:00Z

    Leading figures in the built environment sector in Scotland, including Reiach & Hall director Neil Gillespie, architect Kathryn Findlay and the design leader of Edinburgh City Council Riccardo Marini, have joined the board of Glasgow’s Lighthouse architecture centre.