All Building Design articles in 31 October 2008 – Page 3
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Opinion
Empty prospects
With a downturn on new-builds, is it not time to start working on the empty properties around the UK? It would certainly provide employment for many of our smaller partnerships.
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CompetitionsEducation: Penoyre & Prasad
Despite the troubled Building Schools for the Future programme, which is still to produce an award-winning building, education is a sector where some of the most talented architects are working today — reflected in the strong shortlist, which made it the most difficult category to judge.
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Opinion
Dropped out
BD’s Carbuncle Cup prides itself on stirring up debate about the quality of Britain’s built environment, but could it have more far-reaching effects?
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NewsSimpson completes Manchester ‘jigsaw’
Ian Simpson Architects has unveiled plans for the transformation of a key city centre site in Manchester.
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CompetitionsClient of the year: Nigel Hugill
It is as a champion of quality architecture that Nigel Hugill was the unanimous choice for Client of the Year.
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FeaturesWinds of change
With talks about the Design Museum’s new home under way, we look back to the opening of its present building by architect Conran Roche in 1989
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NewsWestfield shopping centre opens
The £1.7 billion Westfield London shopping centre in Shepherds Bush was opened on Thursday by mayor Boris Johnson.
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News
Five shortlisted for Wembley civic centre
Brent Council has shortlisted Make, Sheppard Robson, EPR Architects, Hopkins, John McAslan & Partners, BDP and TP Bennett for a landmark civic centre opposite Wembley Stadium.
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News
David McLean Holdings goes bust
One of Wales’s biggest developers, David McLean Holdings, plus its subsidiaries, has gone into administration.
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CompetitionsHealthcare: Buschow Henley
In a sector dominated by huge PFI hospital projects and specialist architects, the judges were impressed by the growing number of practices ready to tackle health buildings.
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CompetitionsMasterplanning: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
A successful masterplan is the key to creating great places and, as a category, is one where the standard of entries has risen as both the public and private sectors address the need to create whole new city quarters combining large numbers of housing units with public space.
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NewsPlanners set to bin Make’s scheme for McDonald’s
Plans by Make for fast food giant McDonald’s first major mixed-use project in the UK are likely to be rejected by Tower Hamlets Council, which says the site is inappropriate for family housing.
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OpinionWe did have a big idea for China
Contrary to your front page report (October 24) that Casson Mann “failed to come up with a big idea”, together with Heatherwick’s, Casson Mann did have a big idea for the content of the pavilion. Together we pitched with it, won the pitch with it, and the client approved it.
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OpinionWill moving really be better?
The Design Museum may appear to be a white knight come to save the Commonwealth Institute building, but is it just a vanity project with no real purpose?
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NewsBerkeley Group chief blasts ‘secretive’ Cabe
Pidgley accuses architectural establishment of trying to control projects
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FeaturesYou know when you’ve been quangoed
What exactly does the Homes & Communities Agency’s brief to produce ‘good design’ mean? And can it deliver anything to rival Pugin, Gaudí or any other of the off-the-map greats?
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OpinionCorporate educators are bad business
Designers love Westminster Academy, but is what’s going on inside really such a good idea?