All Building Design articles in 30 March 2007 – Page 3

  • Ian Martin
    Opinion

    Architecture Week rolls out the barrel

    2007-03-30T00:00:00Z

    This week from Ian Martin

  • Dubai’s brave new high rise world: folly or vision for the future?
    Opinion

    Is Dubai a folly architects should steer clear of?

    2007-03-30T00:00:00Z

    As Dubai tries to shake off its gas-guzzling image, Richard Hywel Evans argues the city lacks heart, while Nic Jacobs applauds its grand vision

  • Opinion

    Arb must reform

    2007-03-30T00:00:00Z

    I have read the letter from Arb’s registrar and chief executive Alison Carr. It was before her time, but if she checks the number of votes gained by the architects in the Arb Reform Group she will see that they secured about 70%, including my vote — hardly “a handful ...

  • Ian Salisbury
    News

    Salisbury takes on Arb over proof of insurance

    2007-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Arb critic and former board member Ian Salisbury has revealed legal advice that he hopes will stop the Arb board disciplining architects who fail to provide evidence of their professional insurance.

  • News

    Tate Modern extension approved

    2007-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Southwark council’s planning committee has green-lighted Herzog & de Meuron’s daring extension (pictured) to the Tate Modern on London’s South Bank.

  • Opinion

    Titles tell all

    2007-03-30T00:00:00Z

    In not saying what sort of engineers have signed the lack of respect e-petition last week, Boots rather reinforces the point that they are making. Presumably they are consultants of some kind.

  • Blocks are staggered to avoid overshadowing. Each includes a mix of tenures to avoid a division between renters and owners.
    News

    Barn-style affordable housing feels at home in Sussex

    2007-03-30T00:00:00Z

    This picturesque RIBA competition-winning housing development by Riches Hawley Mikhail has gone on site in Sussex.

  • News

    Adjaye teams up for Manchester art gallery

    2007-03-30T00:00:00Z

    David Adjaye is to design his first regional art gallery in the UK as part of a £55 million collaboration with architect Maurice Shapero and regeneration specialist Urbed.

  • News

    Rogers adds Pritzker prize to busy year

    2007-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Richard Rogers has won the Pritzker Architecture Prize for 2007, becoming only the fourth British architect to take the award after James Stirling, Norman Foster and Zaha Hadid.

  • News

    EH marks the abolition of slavery

    2007-03-30T00:00:00Z

    English Heritage is marking the bicentenary of the ending of slavery in Britain with a web offering which highlights buildings with links to the slave trade and its abolition.

  • News

    Wake up call for seaside regeneration

    2007-03-29T20:30:00Z

    Architects were hailed as the potential saviours of ailing seaside towns but urged to avoid “quick fix iconography” at a conference on coastal regeneration held on Monday, writes Heidi Ancell

  • Features

    Stirling in Cambridge

    2007-03-29T19:44:00Z

    Our archive photographs of James Stirling and his history facility building in Cambridge

  • Margaret Dewhurst's winnning Bad Hair pavilion
    Review

    The shortlisted entries in the AA's summer pavilion competition

    2007-03-29T18:46:00Z

    View images of the winning design and other shortlisted entries to the competition now in its second year

  • What's going wrong?
    Features

    What's going wrong?

    2007-03-29T15:53:00Z

    Are you in this photograph? Where was it taken? What was happening? Who else was there? Tell us what you remember about the first in our new series of pictures from BD's archive

  • Dubai coastline as seen from the World islands.
    Technical

    Gulf states gear up to go green

    2007-03-29T00:00:00Z

    Can Dubai shake off its gas-guzzling image to become a global model of sustainable design? David Littlefield visits to discover how the emirates and their Middle Eastern neighbours are embracing energy reduction on a massive scale

  • The strip windows leave large clear wall spaces for the artists to use.
    Technical

    Goodbye to the garrett

    2007-03-29T00:00:00Z

    With its permanent artists’ studios, The Galleria has thrown out the old idea that artists should suffer for their art.

  • News

    Probe into Foster & Partners share move

    2007-03-29T00:00:00Z

    Financial Services Regulator is also taking an interest in Foster's share deal, Daily Telegraph reports

  • News

    Gehry wins in Hove, but protesters vow to fight on

    2007-03-29T00:00:00Z

    Council approves scheme by one vote as residents say they’ve been ignored

  • News

    Gehry wins in Hove, but protesters vow to fight on

    2007-03-29T00:00:00Z

    As the council approves the controversial scheme by one vote, BD's Marguerite Lazell was there to witness the pantomime, while Heidi Ancell reports on a conference to tackle the UK's ailing seaside towns.

  • News

    Can Dubai revamp its image?

    2007-03-29T00:00:00Z

    Dubai is gearing up to go green. David Littlefield discovers how the city-state is embracing energy efficiency, while Richard Hywel Evans and Nic Jacobs debate whether Dubai is a folly or the future?