All Building Design articles in 4 March 2005 – Page 2

  • News

    Glasgow sends out homes SOS

    2005-03-04T00:00:00Z

    Interviews for £500m revamp

  • Opinion

    Full metal jacket

    2005-03-04T00:00:00Z

    I go past Amin Taha’s building on Clerkenwell Road every day (News Analysis February 18).

  • News

    Erosion threat to Victorian gems

    2005-03-04T00:00:00Z

    The Victorian Society is concerned that three grade II listed buildings on the east coast of Britain will fall into the sea if government proposals to abandon rather than protect an eroding stretch of coastline are adopted.

  • Opinion

    Doing our duty

    2005-03-04T00:00:00Z

    Further to your articles on the position of citizens from outside the EU seeking registration in the UK. Even if the Home Office is seeking to stop such persons remaining in the UK, Arb is not.

  • News

    Ski station design scales new heights

    2005-03-04T00:00:00Z

    High-altitude designs for four cable railway stations and a bridge in Innsbruck, Austria, have been revealed by Zaha Hadid Architects.

  • News

    War of words on demolition plan

    2005-03-04T00:00:00Z

    Rogers ‘grossly overreacted’ in criticism, claims Hill

  • News

    Rogers eyes luxury deal

    2005-03-04T00:00:00Z

    RRP in talks on Knightsbridge site

  • Opinion

    Cross at Vauxhall

    2005-03-04T00:00:00Z

  • News

    Critics force Hastings Plaza rethink

    2005-03-04T00:00:00Z

    Hopkins Architects and Bill Dunster Architects have been sent back to the drawing board after three separate design watchdogs slammed their landmark £72 million scheme in Hastings.

  • News

    Housing quota set for court

    2005-03-04T00:00:00Z

    Westminster City Council is to start legal proceedings against the Government Office for London in a bid to avoid a 50% affordable housing quota on new developments.

  • Opinion

    Towards a common goal

    2005-03-04T00:00:00Z

    BD last month suggested that planners could be the solution, rather than the problem. At last it is talking about planning as a process again, writes Steve Bee.

  • News

    Cattle drive

    2005-03-04T00:00:00Z

    Hopkins Architects has won planning permission for an £85 million redevelopment of the 5ha Cattle Market site in the centre of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.

  • News

    Broadway Malyan joins forces with Hemingways in Gateway

    2005-03-04T00:00:00Z

    Broadway Malyan is collaborating with designers Wayne and Gerardine Hemingway and housebuilder George Wimpey on a £100 million scheme in the Thames Gateway.

  • News

    Ferguson bridge-mending with Princes Foundation chief

    2005-03-04T00:00:00Z

    RIBA president George Ferguson has met new Prince’s Foundation chief executive Hank Dittmar this week as part of a “bridge-mending exercise” Ferguson is championing between Prince Charles and the profession.

  • Opinion

    Concrete boots

    2005-03-04T00:00:00Z

    In the line of fireRegeneration minister Jeff Rooker has never minced his words, but at Monday’s Office of the Deputy Prime Minister select committee hearing, he was more than usually honest. “The red tape for the first phase [of Pathfinders] was astronomical beyond belief,” he lamented. “Whose fault was that?” ...

  • News

    Birmingham library in doubt

    2005-03-04T00:00:00Z

    The future of Richard Rogers’ much-delayed design for a new Birmingham library appeared in further doubt this week as Birmingham City Council branded it and a number of rival schemes “unacceptable and unaffordable”.

  • Opinion

    Beyond the circus of the media darlings

    2005-03-04T00:00:00Z

    Once upon a time, buildings were designed to serve specific purposes. They were judged on how well, and, at best, how beautifully, they served them.

  • News

    Traditional and modern do battle in public vote

    2005-03-04T00:00:00Z

    Competing modernist and traditional designs for a £4 million community centre in Alton, Hampshire, have been put to a public vote to decide which will be built.

  • Opinion

    Barring foreigners will damage UK

    2005-03-04T00:00:00Z

    I read with dismay the news that the Home Office is now barring foreign architects and trainees from pursuing a career in Britain (News February 25).

  • The elevation to Britton Street. The widths of windows are inherited from the earlier structure, but sill heights have been dropped allowing the proportions to be adjusted.
    Building Study

    Back to the studio

    2005-03-04T00:00:00Z

    An art studio home by Tony Fretton starts our two-part series on live-work designs