All Building Design articles in 30 May 2008 – Page 3

  • News

    Native wins York design citations

    2008-05-30T00:00:00Z

    York architect Native has picked up two top awards at the 2008 York Design Awards. The firm won the new-build residential category and the lord mayor’s award.

  • From right: Zaha Hadid, Peter Smithson, Charles Correa and his wife
    Features

    Smithson, ‘child of Morris’

    2008-05-30T00:00:00Z

    Zaha Hadid, Peter Smithson and others in deepest Cumbria, 1984

  • News

    SMC healthy — but cautious over cuts

    2008-05-30T00:00:00Z

    SMC managing director Chris Littlemore has painted a rosy future for the huge listed practice, but vowed to continue its ongoing cost-cutting and rationalisation drive amid new contract negotiations with staff.

  • Boris: new job, new policy?
    Opinion

    Classic case

    2008-05-30T00:00:00Z

    Boots hears that next month’s spanking new London Architecture Festival will be opened by mayor Boris Johnson. Bozza is certainly a catch but he will surely have to tone down his message.

  • Yes, logo: Woods is to clad Milton Keynes Gallery next month.
    Review

    Richard Woods just can’t help it

    2008-05-30T00:00:00Z

    Artist Richard Woods, whose first solo UK show opens next month, tells Liz Bury why he delights in the home-made

  • Save this structure: Stirling & Gowan’s Leicester Engineering Department building.
    Opinion

    This building has world value

    2008-05-30T00:00:00Z

    I have written to Leicester University’s senior building surveyor Jim Whait to add my voice to those of my colleagues around the world who are deeply concerned about the threat to the Leicester Engineering Building designed by James Stirling and James Gowan.

  • Illustration: Jemma Robinson
    Analysis

    Why Gordon Brown and green don’t mix

    2008-05-30T00:00:00Z

    The prime minister had high hopes for eco-towns, but Richard Rogers and others say the towns aren’t sustainable at all

  • The Lightbox Gallery
    News

    Charge of the Lightbox brigade

    2008-05-30T00:00:00Z

    The Lightbox gallery and museum (pictured) designed by Marks Barfield has won this year’s Art Fund Prize.

  • The hotel occupies a 19th century former police museum.
    News

    Derby boutique city hotel opens

    2008-05-30T00:00:00Z

    A grade II listed former police museum in Derby has opened as a boutique hotel following refurbishment by Red 4 Architects.

  • News

    BSF boosted by new design director role

    2008-05-30T00:00:00Z

    The role of design within the government’s £45 billion Building Schools for the Future programme is set to be boosted thanks to a raft of reforms including a powerful new architect role within delivery body Partnerships for Schools.

  • Naybour to head Victoria project.
    News

    Naybour joins Weston board

    2008-05-30T00:00:00Z

    Transport specialist Weston Williamson has appointed Rob Naybour to its main board as a director.

  • ‘A centralised RIBA is not informing the membership what it does’ - Ruth Reed
    News

    Reed blasts RIBA with London bias jibe

    2008-05-30T00:00:00Z

    Presidential hopeful courts regions with outspoken attack on “London-centric” institute

  • News

    Bennetts scoops humanities deal

    2008-05-30T00:00:00Z

    Oxford University has appointed Bennetts Associates to design a £180 million humanities building, beating David Chipperfield Architects, KPF and Wilkinson Eyre. The development forms part of a masterplan by Rafael Viñoly.

  • Hadid: plea to government
    News

    Hadid goes to top in battle for estate

    2008-05-30T00:00:00Z

    Zaha Hadid has made an impassioned plea to the government to list Robin Hood Gardens, promising to write to prime minister Gordon Brown’s wife Sarah Brown as well as architecture minister Margaret Hodge before its fate is decided.

  • View of Bath from the Prior Park Estate.
    News

    Battle for Bath skyline hots up

    2008-05-30T00:00:00Z

    Ex-RIBA president George Ferguson joins push for tall buildings policy

  • The granite outer walls of the Pema Karpo Library in Ladakh, northern India, contrast with the internal timber panelling.
    News

    Arup-designed library for north Indian school takes centre stage

    2008-05-30T00:00:00Z

    Arup Associates has unveiled designs for a new library at its award-winning Ladakhi Druk White Lotus School in northern India.

  • New Forest
    Technical

    John Pardey Architects’ New Forest public toilets

    2008-05-30T00:00:00Z

    Architect John Pardey on how Louis Kahn and Corb inspired his innovative take on smallest room. Photos by John Pardey

  • Portland Place: does it reach out to architects in the regions?
    Opinion

    Does the RIBA do enough for regional architects?

    2008-05-30T00:00:00Z

    Former RIBA president George Ferguson is convinced that it does, but presidential hopeful Ruth Reed feels it fails to do enough

  • Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Llangollen Canal
    News

    Aqueduct heritage status nearer

    2008-05-30T00:00:00Z

    The grade I listed Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Llangollen Canal (pictured) in north-east Wales has moved a step closer to being shortlisted for Unesco world heritage site status.

  • News

    Hotel planned for Beckton Alp

    2008-05-30T00:00:00Z

    Plans have been mooted for a £20 million hotel to be built on the site of the famous East London landmark, Beckton Alp.