All Building Design articles in 30 November 2007 – Page 2

  • Opinion

    Poor illumination

    2007-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Bill Mitchell quotes Leon Botstein on leaks at MIT’s Stata Center (Opinion November 16) as saying: “hiring Gehry to design a building was no more risky than hiring Albert Einstein to teach physics”.

  • Pimlico: mysterious neglect
    Opinion

    Iconic Pimlico must be saved

    2007-11-30T00:00:00Z

    As a former governor of Pimlico School, I was interested to read about its impending demolition (News November 23).

  • Block keeps to the local roofline
    News

    Leeds keyworker homes use MMC

    2007-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Design Group 3 Architects is designing 22 keyworker apartments in Headingley, Leeds, for Park Lane Properties

  • Erda: acoustically challenged
    Opinion

    On a high

    2007-11-30T00:00:00Z

    What promised to be the hot ticket of the party season — Foster’s 40th anniversary bash — turned out to be a salutary reminder of the Great Court’s appalling acoustics, which comprehensively mangled the sound of Wagner’s Das Rheingold.

  • News

    Richardson to head up Network

    2007-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Vicky Richardson (pictured) has been appointed as chair of Architecture Centre Network.

  • Opinion

    Are you revered as a global visionary genius?

    2007-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Ian Martin discovers how an obscure architect in our reality might be a superstar in a parallel world

  • Local timber was used on the hostel’s facades
    News

    Hostel loses institutional feel

    2007-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Sussex-based DRP Architects has completed the first phase of a £5 million project to rebuild a hostel in Portslade, near Brighton.

  • Opinion

    Fear of flying

    2007-11-30T00:00:00Z

    A non-scientific survey of the world’s worst airports by The Independent paper’s foreign correspondents features none other than Richard Rogers’ Madrid Barajas building — “a huge shopping mall where you feel you could get lost, possibly for years”.

  • Opinion

    Happy family

    2007-11-30T00:00:00Z

    A fresh attempt has been made to gag Arb members.

  • Opinion

    Facing the music

    2007-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Daniel Libeskind’s latest non-architectural creation — a 5.2m-long grand piano — took as long to make as some of his buildings.

  • News

    Fosters extends share ownership

    2007-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Foster & Partners has announced it is extending share ownership in the business, as the practice marked its 40th anniversary at the British Museum on Tuesday night

  • Opinion

    This is the plan: every man for himself

    2007-11-30T00:00:00Z

    When you get up close to it, the planning process is revealed as a chaotic, counter-productive sham

  • News

    LDS wins Ferrier Estate masterplan

    2007-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands has scooped its biggest-ever residential masterplanning brief — to redevelop one of London’s most deprived council estates

  • Opinion

    Earnest & young

    2007-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Thanks to the unusually named blog Bollocks To Architecture —www.b2architecture.blogspot.com — for drawing our attention to fancy dress for toddlers from The Toy Factory.

  • FOA’s Leicester store
    News

    John Lewis to drop one-off store designs

    2007-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Retailer seeks architectural brand

  • Technical

    Designing by numbers

    2007-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Marks Barfield drew inspiration from the ancient Fibonacci number sequence to design and build a treetop walkway for Kew Gardens, writes Rory Olcayto

  • News

    Rochester Riverside design placed

    2007-11-30T00:00:00Z

    HTA with Burd Haward Architects has won the competition to design the 600-home first phase of Rochester Riverside, a 2,000-home flagship development in the Thames Gateway.

  • Dow Jones’ open gallery is conceived as a belvedere overlooking the nave.
    Building Study

    Earthy delights

    2007-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Six practices were shortlisted in the Architecture Foundation/BD competition to create a new exhibition space inside the Museum of Garden History. Ellis Woodman surveys the winning entry and the runners-up

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    Gateway reaches crisis point

    2007-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Cash, Farrell and positive noises are great, but they cannot hide the fact that the Thames Gateway is in meltdown

  • Opinion

    Street cred

    2007-11-30T00:00:00Z

    I am pleased I am not the only person in Hackney who objects to the seriously misnamed Streetscene Improvements being spread like a layer of hazardous waste all over the borough.