All Building Design articles in 30 September 2005

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  • Grimshaw’s footbridge across the River Usk at Newport, due to be put in place in the new year.
    News

    Wales

    2005-09-30T00:00:00Z

    Grimshaw bridge Work has begun on the site of Grimshaw’s footbridge, which will span the River Usk at Newport. Steelwork fabrication is up to date and erection is due in the new year.

  • View along the north elevation facing towards the city.  The low canopy marks the entrance.
    Building Study

    Tectonic soup

    2005-09-30T00:00:00Z

    Wilkinson Eyre’s National Waterfront Museum in Swansea combines an astonishing range of architectural types. Could Kester Rattenbury make sense of the whole?

  • News

    Power play

    2005-09-30T00:00:00Z

    This week...

  • De Matos Storey Ryan’s Bird Box City.
    Review

    In search of perfection

    2005-09-30T00:00:00Z

    A utopian novel about a crazed architect provides the inspiration for an exhibition at Chelsea College of Art.

  • News

    People

    2005-09-30T00:00:00Z

    This week...

  • David Miliband
    News

    Urban legends

    2005-09-30T00:00:00Z

    Will a lack of devolution sour Labour’s love affair with cities?

  • Inspired by the leaning tower: Cornelia Parker’s installation of Pisa mud.
    Opinion

    The Leaning Tower of Pisa and me

    2005-09-30T00:00:00Z

    I’d been visiting friends in Pisa since the 1980s, and then I had a fling with an Italian architect who lived in Pisa, who introduced me to the engineers working to stabilise the leaning tower.

  • News

    Legacy for the lakes

    2005-09-30T00:00:00Z

    Modern design for the Lake District

  • Opinion

    Style is irrelevant

    2005-09-30T00:00:00Z

    Regarding your article “Adam’s neo-classicism faces public style trial” (News September 16), I live very close to the proposed development and am opposed to it.Much of the aesthetics is a matter of taste, and so I make no comment on what is good design or on other work by Robert ...

  • News

    Hit and miss

    2005-09-30T00:00:00Z

    This week...

  • Denys Lasdun’s Central Library at the University of East Anglia
    News

    New edition

    2005-09-30T00:00:00Z

    Shepheard Epstein Hunter’s extension to Denys Lasdun’s Central Library at the University of East Anglia has been completed in time for the start of the academic year.

  • News

    John Drew leaves Foster for Viñoly

    2005-09-30T00:00:00Z

    Senior Foster & Partners architect John Drew is leaving the practice to join of Rafael Viñoly Architects.

  • News

    Former Nightingale director joins US firm

    2005-09-30T00:00:00Z

    American practice nbbj has recruited a former director of Nightingale Associates in an attempt to boost its profile in the healthcare sector.

  • Opinion

    When in Milan, design for Milan

    2005-09-30T00:00:00Z

    Italian architects protested this month at the proliferation of foreign architecture appearing in their own country. What they are saying should make an elite minority of British architects stop and think.

  • Opinion

    Defending defence

    2005-09-30T00:00:00Z

    Further to your article “group calls for boycott of design show” (News September 16), we feel it is important that there is a balanced debate and that any errors of fact are corrected. Reed Exhibitions would argue that defence and security sectors play a vital role in preserving peace and ...

  • News

    Rising generation debates star factor

    2005-09-30T00:00:00Z

    Star architects of tomorrow can be marked out in their youth by their international approach and ability to build urban communities in a local context, says the author of a new book on architecture’s rising generation.

  • Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa
    News

    Chipperfield gives a Figge

    2005-09-30T00:00:00Z

    David Chipperfield Architects’ Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa, opened last week.

  • ORMS’s four-storey mixed use development on the edge of Harlow overlooks a central square.
    News

    An open and shut case

    2005-09-30T00:00:00Z

    This timber-clad residential and commercial scheme in Harlow, Essex, received planning permission last week.

  • Eye candy
    News

    Eye candy

    2005-09-30T00:00:00Z

    This design by the Richard Rogers Partnership to replace the 1950s Bowater House in Knightsbridge has been put forward to Westminster City Council for planning permission. The 37,000sq m scheme comprises 106 apartments set above retail space.

  • News

    Campaign to limit tall buildings

    2005-09-30T00:00:00Z

    Call to protect Manchester skyline