All Building Design articles in 7 July 2006 – Page 2

  • Line of site
    Technical

    Design an international oasis for a desert

    2006-07-07T00:00:00Z

    Of all the potentially disastrous effects of climate change, “water wars” would be the most bloody and brutal.

  • Lutyens’s Thiepval Memorial, with the graves of French unknown soldiers in the foreground.
    Review

    Dulce et decorum est

    2006-07-07T00:00:00Z

    On the anniversary of the Somme, Gavin Stamp’s study of Lutyens’s Thiepval memorial is a provocative but fitting tribute.

  • Yona Friedman
    Review

    Culture vulture

    2006-07-07T00:00:00Z

    This week - Yona Friedman

  • News

    Croydon facelift

    2006-07-07T00:00:00Z

    Architect AWW has revealed this new residential development, part of a £35 million mixed-use regeneration scheme in Croydon.

  • News

    Manser cries foul over hotel

    2006-07-07T00:00:00Z

    A leading architecture practice has accused a hotel developer of using its designs without copyright in a case that highlights the confusion and waste surrounding major building projects.

  • Outstanding: Thomas Turner’s designs for a Chinese health and culture exchange.
    Review

    Mac sets course for a new era

    2006-07-07T00:00:00Z

    Peter Wilson reviews the student show at Glasgow’s Mackintosh School

  • News

    Religious conversion

    2006-07-07T00:00:00Z

    Foster & Partners has secured its first church commission, a refurbishment of the grade II listed St Paul’s in Onslow Square, London.

  • News

    Truman Show designer comes to the Highlands

    2006-07-07T00:00:00Z

    The American architect famous for creating “Seaside”, the new urbanist town that provided the setting for the film The Truman Show, is to design a new development in the Scottish Highlands.

  • The proposed front view of the Woolwich civic offices.
    News

    HLM gives civic pride to Woolwich

    2006-07-07T00:00:00Z

    This arresting £45 million building by HLM Architects is the proposed new civic offices for Woolwich in south-east London.

  • Opinion

    Quality cast

    2006-07-07T00:00:00Z

    Michael Hickey’s letter (June 30) about a legitimate name for high-quality aggregate precast concrete has got the generic name wrong. “Cast masonry” is a name I invented in the mid-nineties and have been spreading through the industry ever since. It arose in a conversation with Philip Dowson and Richard ...

  • News

    White-collar campus

    2006-07-07T00:00:00Z

    This £29 million office development by RyderHKS architects for London & Regional Properties has begun on site at Park Royal, West London.

  • News

    Bracing sea Eyre

    2006-07-07T00:00:00Z

    Wilkinson Eyre’s reworked scheme for Brighton marina, incorporating a 40-storey tower with public viewing gallery and a swing bridge, has received planning permission subject to a section 106 agreement.

  • Opinion

    Concrete Boots

    2006-07-07T00:00:00Z

    Comments from Concrete Boots this week

  • News

    Boost for Farrell’s Gateway park plan

    2006-07-07T00:00:00Z

    Terry Farrell’s vision of a Thames Gateway national park was given substance this week when he presented a “manifesto” from a multi-disciplinary study group outlining its potential.

  • News

    Olympics’ pledge to new blood

    2006-07-07T00:00:00Z

    Young designers given a boost

  • News

    Six shortlisted for new Birmingham city park

    2006-07-07T00:00:00Z

    Six practices have been shortlisted in the competition to design the new City Park in the Eastside area of Birmingham.

  • News

    Big plans for MK’s city future

    2006-07-07T00:00:00Z

    The Milton Keynes Partnership has submitted massive growth proposals that would see the new town become a city with a population of more than 300,000 by 2031.

  • News

    Murphy upset over best coming second

    2006-07-07T00:00:00Z

    Leading Edinburgh architect Richard Murphy has criticised the rules of a competition for a £7.5 million music and cinema venue on Shetland, after coming second despite scoring highest marks for design.

  • News

    Behind you...

    2006-07-07T00:00:00Z

    The 2006 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, designed by Rem Koolhaas and Cecil Balmond, is open for business.

  • News

    Beamish founder hits out at visitor centre plans

    2006-07-07T00:00:00Z

    The founder of the Beamish open air museum in County Durham has attacked the decision to commission a modern visitor centre next to the museum’s reconstructed 19th and 20th century buildings.