All Building Design articles in 5 May 2006 – Page 2

  • News

    Four competing for Gateshead Quays

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    CZWG, Ryder HKS, the Fairhursts Design Group and multidisciplinary practice Watkins Gray International have been shortlisted for the prestigious Gateshead Quays phase two development.

  • Feilden Clegg Bradley's courtyard housing features outdoor space at three levels.
    Building Study

    Three's company

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    Feilden Clegg Bradley has collaborated with Alison Brooks and Maccreanor Lavington for its Cambridge development, to produce a range of housing styles. The result is high-quality architecture reflecting a collective identity

  • Feilden Clegg Bradley is working with Alison Brooks and Maccreanor Lavington on Cambridge’s Accordia development, an £80 million residential scheme.
    News

    Community spirit

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    Feilden Clegg Bradley is working with Alison Brooks and Maccreanor Lavington on Cambridge's Accordia development, an £80 million residential scheme.

  • News

    Thermal comfort research

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    Researchers at Leicester's De Montfort University are teaming up with academics at the Karlsruhe University in Germany and the Technical University of Denmark to find out more about thermal comfort in green buildings.

  • News

    Nelson's column is ‘pigeon-proofed'

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    Nelson's column has been shrouded in scaffolding as restoration work begins at the landmark site in Trafalgar Square. It is the third time the monument has been restored in the last 40 years, and is believed to be the first time this sort of work has been done in the ...

  • From left, Roman Delugan, Christopher Schweiger, Martin Josst, Dietmar Feistel and Elke Delugan-Meissl.
    Features

    Heads in the clouds

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    Delugan Meissl's architecture seeks to defy gravity. Ahead of a UK tour of its work next month, Zoë Blackler pays a visit to the new darlings of the Austrian scene

  • London 2006: Tomas Saraceno’s concept for his Barbican installation
    Review

    Hey you, get onto my cloud

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    Artist Tomas Saraceno's work concerning floating cities and living in clouds betrays his Archigram influence

  • News

    Southwark sets up a mini Cabe

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    The London Borough of Southwark has assembled a star-studded design review panel to rival Cabe's, boasting two current and one former member of the commission's design review panel and a host of other well-respected industry figures.

  • Simon Whittle’s winning project is inspired by a family tree, rotating a simple repeated shape.
    Technical

    Branching out

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    For years the AA has been using the Serpentine pavilion as a teaching tool, but this summer a group of its students will build their own structure out of timber and construct it outside the school in Bedford Square. Elaine Knutt looks at the winning scheme and the runners-up

  • Opinion

    Concrete Boots

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    This week's anecdotes

  • News

    Biennale cash crisis

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    Arts Council cuts London Biennale funding amid claims it overshadows Architecture Week

  • Page & Park’s apartments for the Gorbals are arranged in a crescent shape.
    News

    Glasgow materials are bent into shape

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    This distinctive crescent of apartments in the Gorbals, Glasgow, has been designed by local practice Page & Park.

  • News

    Contract tied up for troubled Barts Royal London hospital

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    The contract for the troubled Barts & the Royal London hospital, designed by HOK, has finally reached financial close.

  • Manchester-based developer Artisan has submitted plans for its first project outside the North-west — this £20 million mixed-use scheme in Sheffield city centre.
    News

    Artisan in Sheffield

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    Manchester-based developer Artisan has submitted plans for its first project outside the North-west - this £20 million mixed-use scheme in Sheffield city centre.

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    Features

    Architest

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    This week: Vienna

  • News

    Cambridge ranks top for architect students

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    Cambridge University has been rated the best place to study architecture in a survey by the Guardian newspaper, ahead of the Manchester School of Architecture and Cardiff University.

  • News

    Arb power battle over vice-chair

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    Reform group puts up candidate

  • Opinion

    Death and life of an anarchist urbanist

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    Reading the laudatory obituaries of Jane Jacobs in the newspapers last week, it was easy to forget what a hostile reception she received, particularly from architects, when The Death and Life of Great American Cities was first published in 1961.

  • CZWG, Ryder HKS, the Fairhursts Design Group and multidisciplinary practice Watkins Gray International have been shortlisted for the prestigious Gateshead Quays phase two development.
    News

    Hospital's green ambition

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    Llewelyn Davies Yeang's healthcare team has designed what is hopes will be the world's greenest hospital for the Bouygues consortium as it redevelops the Broomfield Hospital in Essex.

  • Fat’s New Islington housing: “superficial”
    Opinion

    One step ahead of the residents

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    Can we imagine the residents of Fat's New Islington development (Works April 28) applying charming working-class vernacular trinkets to their brand new homes? Well, no, we can't, because the architects have beaten them to it. Would you Adam and Eve it, but haven't they gone and ruined the very thing ...