All Building Design articles in 30 September 2005 – Page 2

  • News

    Broadcast views

    2005-09-30T00:00:00Z

    MacCormac Jamieson Prichard’s refurbishment of BBC’s Broadcasting House was revealed for the first time this week as scaffolding on the building was removed.

  • News

    Livingstone squares up to London boroughs

    2005-09-30T00:00:00Z

    London mayor Ken Livingstone has launched an audacious bid to take control of housing and planning in the capital with a pledge to fight Nimbyism in local authorities and increase the number of homes delivered in the Thames Gateway.

  • Opinion

    Bombing bridges

    2005-09-30T00:00:00Z

    In the same week as a report for the RIBA warned that architects were introspective and liked to think of themselves as misunderstood artists, Tony Fretton did little to heal any perceived rift between the general public and the profession.

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    News

    Playing the blame game

    2005-09-30T00:00:00Z

    As UK architects are accused of failing to collaborate, the Bath Spa saga reveals just how bad relations can get.

  • News

    Cabe fears manslaughter bill

    2005-09-30T00:00:00Z

    Watchdog says the new legislation could stop innovative urban design such as London’s Exhibition Road

  • Opinion

    Bill Portal

    2005-09-30T00:00:00Z

    Neo-Classical network architecture, IMHO, rocks. Pleasing proportions, and the ethernet connection kicks ass

  • Opinion

    Bid of nonsense

    2005-09-30T00:00:00Z

    Talking of PFI, government procurement has become internet-enabled.

  • Opinion

    Beyond our Ken

    2005-09-30T00:00:00Z

    Ken Livingstone is used to fighting the Labour party, but this time he’s up against a much more intransigent foe.

  • News

    Profession takes a beating

    2005-09-30T00:00:00Z

    Constructing Excellence report calls for new wave of megapractices and says RIBA is out of touch

  • News

    Aylesbury looks to New Islington

    2005-09-30T00:00:00Z

    A masterplan inspired by Manchester’s New Islington development will be used to redevelop and enlarge London’s huge Aylesbury estate.

  • Opinion

    Aylesbury error

    2005-09-30T00:00:00Z

    It is sad that your front page report in last week’s issue (News September 23) says that the Aylesbury estate was designed by Austrian architect Hans Trenton. This suggests that Southwark, which at the time had the largest housing programme in London, had brought in a private architect from abroad.For ...

  • The 660-tonne tuned mass damper at the top of Taiwan’s Taipei 101
    Technical

    Ways to take the sway away

    2005-09-30T00:00:00Z

    Increasingly severe storms will make damping systems vital in any new tall building

  • News

    RRP’s Welsh Assembly is three months late

    2005-09-30T00:00:00Z

    The new £60 million Rogers-designed debating chamber for the National Assembly in Cardiff will be at least three months late in completion.

  • News

    Report on Lynch fire points to arson

    2005-09-30T00:00:00Z

    The fire that destroyed the first major project by architect Patrick Lynch last year was possibly started with petrol, a scientific investigation has concluded.

  • Opinion

    Archive protection

    2005-09-30T00:00:00Z

    For your top story last week you chose to feature an accident to an important collection while in temporary storage at our headquarters, some three years ago.I very much regret the damage caused at the time (fortunately to prints, not originals) and naturally we have acted to improve the housing ...

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    Features

    Architest

    2005-09-30T00:00:00Z

    This week: television

  • Iannis Xenakis helped bring about the revolotion in music
    Review

    The unsung hero of architecture

    2005-09-30T00:00:00Z

    Architect turned composer Iannis Xenakis is the da Vinci of modern music

  • News

    Architects petition Reed over arms fair

    2005-09-30T00:00:00Z

    Speakers at the 100% Detail design fair last week petitioned organiser Reed over its role as host of the International Defence Exhibition arms fair.

  • Opinion

    Awards are not enough for young architects

    2005-09-30T00:00:00Z

    What’s the best way of winning work?

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    News

    Five shortlisted for BD young architect award

    2005-09-30T00:00:00Z

    Five practices are facing perhaps the toughest interview of their short careers after they were shortlisted for the 2005 BD/ Davis Langdon Young Architect of the Year Award this week.