All Building Design articles in 30 January 2009 – Page 2

  • News

    Foster, Adjaye lead top names in race to design Washington’s new museum of black history

    2009-02-02T08:43:00Z

    Norman Foster, David Adjaye, Antoine Predock, Moshe Safdie and IM Pei are among a stellar crop of architects competing to design America’s new museum of black history in Washington DC.

  • Stewart McColl
    News

    Stewart McColl Bounces Back

    2009-01-30T14:10:00Z

    Former boss of SMC group sets up new practice, vowing once again to buy up other firms

  • Foster's Red October
    News

    Foster’s denies Red October is shelved

    2009-01-30T09:31:00Z

    Foster & Partners has played down reports that the Red October island project in Moscow, which also involves Jean Nouvel and six other firms, has been shelved.

  • Opinion

    Talking rubbish

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    How encouraging it was for us at the bottom of the architectural food chain to hear Richard Harrington, chairman of Nightingale Associates, describe ward refurbishments as “rubbish like that” (News January 16)

  • Eric Parry’s sketch of his design for the first gallery, which features fragments of Roman ruins against a blue sky.
    Review

    Lost in wonder at Palladio at the RA

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    The Royal Academy’s exhibition celebrating 500 years since the great Italian’s birth is a must-see

  • Opinion

    Living on

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    As BD documented last week, Jan Kaplicky’s status as an inspirational architect has never been in doubt, but even so Boots was astonished to hear that over 20,000 people have joined a Czech Facebook group calling for his Prague library to be built.

  • Opinion

    Kudos is reward

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    Your headline “Stirling to drop prize money” (January 23) is misleading. The question of whether and how to fund a prize is being discussed — no decision has been made.

  • Going so soon? DSDHA pavilion.
    Opinion

    It’s potty

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    Word reaches Boots that DSDHA’s pavilion next to Tower Bridge is unlikely to survive the arrival of Squire & Partners’ Potters Fields development despite standing only a few months.

  • Opinion

    The house is a machine for learning

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    Architects’ quest to design mixed communities could benefit from looking at a group of Gallic militant lefties

  • Features

    Research offers a ray of hope

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    The economic meltdown gives us a chance to reassess our priorities and decide what kind of architecture is truly worthwhile

  • Opinion

    Good riddance

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    So the Stirling Prize is just about over — great! — who cares?

  • Opinion

    Is it time to scrap the Private Finance Initiative?

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    Definitely, says former RIBA president Jack Pringle, but Skanska director of education Steve Cooper believes architects have a great opportunity now.

  • Opinion

    Title fight

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    It’s bad enough that there are so few jobs advertised for architects in the national, or any, press.

  • Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art
    News

    Erick van Egeraat files for insolvency

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    International success story succumbs to credit crunch and Russian market

  • Opinion

    Out for a duck

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    Determined to keep Test Match status, Warwickshire County Cricket Club is hoping to upgrade its Edgbaston ground.

  • News

    This week's ups & downs

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    This week

  • Lowered: the Stars and Stripe
    Opinion

    Flagged down

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    London mayor Boris Johnson and English Heritage have imposed a height restriction for the new US Embassy, to be sited in south-west London near Vauxhall.

  • News

    Docklands designer Price dies

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    David Price, architect, urban designer and former partner of Gordon Cullen, has died at the age of 54.

  • Opinion

    Untapped depths

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    Boots has been invited to some tenuous product launches in its time but not, until now, to the opening of a tap — even if it is designed by Zaha Hadid.

  • Opinion

    Reform’s cool

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    Elections for the Arb board and executive are here again. In 2006, five of the 22 candidates seeking election to Arb’s seven architect places collected 70% of the profession’s votes