All Building Design articles in 30 July 2010 – Page 2
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ReviewFilm review: Inception
Christopher Nolan’s latest film offers a depressingly unrealistic idea of the architect mentality.
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News
Glockenspiel hits the right note
Westminster Council has given the thumbs-up to Jestico & Whiles’ designs for the new Swiss glockenspiel in London’s Leicester Square
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OpinionGolden years in Munich
With a bit of guessing I recognised my uncle Christian Grzimek as the elegant young man in the third top row, with his hand on his head, in your photo of Behnisch’s Olympic team (Archive July 23)
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OpinionHousing grant seems over-generous
There’s nothing like puffing your chest out when you’re under pressure
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NewsGreen light for Penoyre scheme
Penoyre & Prasad has been given the go-ahead for an £11 million residential building on the Isle of Dogs in east London
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Opinion
Total recall
I have only just read Boots’ comment (July 16) about Charles Rennie Mackintosh being accused of pinching others’ details
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Opinion
Olympics should look to Edinburgh
As the Edinburgh Festival shows, the ephemeral can show the way forward for serious projects.
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OpinionBrady’s low pay challenge
RIBA’s next president faces a tricky job turning her strong words on poor working conditions into action.
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NewsVictorian Society backs Purcell Miller Tritton's Manchester hotel plan
The Victorian Society has praised Purcell Miller Tritton’s plans to save Manchester’s grade-II* listed fire headquarters by turning it into a luxury hotel.
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TechnicalThe implications of the new Part L regulations on facade design
In the first of a series of videos about facade design, Graham Fairley, head of facade engineering at Aecom, talks to Anthony Gell, CEO at The Business Voice about some of the hot topics in the industry today.
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NewsRugby matches on unused Foster site
An east London council was this week due to extend proposals allowing teenagers temporary use of the site earmarked for a £500 million Foster & Partners development in Shoreditch.
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AnalysisHow job losses take a toll on employees, bosses and the staff left behind
With no signs that the recession’s bite is about to ease, BD looks at the effect of redundancy on architects who have lost their jobs and those who have had to let them go.
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NewsRecession-hit housing expo finally set to open
Last-minute building work was being carried out this week ahead of Scotland’s Housing Expo, the recession-hit event which finally opens this weekend.
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NewsBrady to act over low pay
Incoming RIBA president Angela Brady will put low pay at the top of her in-tray when she takes over from Ruth Reed next year.
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NewsArchitect fined after health and safety lapse causes death
An architect has been fined £180,000 after pleading guilty to breaching health and safety regulations on a site in which a construction worker was killed.
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NewsVan Heyningen & Haward wins go-ahead for Essex nature park scheme
Thurrock Council has given planning approval to a new visitor centre by Van Heyningen & Haward at a nature park in Essex.
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NewsNew York gives go-ahead to Viñoly housing
Planners in New York have approved designs by Rafael Viñoly to build affordable housing.
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NewsStudio Real submits plans for Towcester redevelopment
Oxford architect and urban planner Studio Real has submitted plans to redevelop part of Towcester in Northamptonshire.
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ReviewCultural guide: Aug 2- 8
This week’s cultural guide goes a little squared eyed, with an architectural film season at the BFI and industrialised alienation and paranoia at the Milton Keynes gallery, amongst other cultural highlights.
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NewsResidents call on Prince Charles to intervene over Iranian Embassy proposal
Daneshgar Architects’ futuristic scheme for a new Iranian Embassy building in London has outraged conservationists and neighbours who are calling on the Prince of Wales to intervene.