All Building Design articles in 7 March 2008 – Page 3

  • News

    Massive regeneration for Big City Brum

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    Urban Initiatives has launched its vision to transform Birmingham city centre in a £10 billion, 800ha regeneration programme.

  • News

    Mosque consultation begins

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    A public consultation into plans for the Abbey Mills Mosque in Newham, east London, has begun.

  • News

    Demolition of Pimlico School begins

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    Demolition has begun at Pimlico School, the brutalist landmark in Westminster which has been the centre of a long-running listing battle.

  • Shaw’s  design for 39 Frognal, north London, 1884.
    Review

    Norman Shaw’s line of beauty

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    Norman Shaw’s masterly drawings can teach modern practice a thing or two, says Gavin Stamp

  • News

    BD’s Woodman to curate pavilion

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    BD’s buildings editor Ellis Woodman (pictured) is to curate this year’s British pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

  • News

    BDP’s Victoria Square completed

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    BDP’s £160 million scheme for Victoria Square, Belfast (pictured) opened to the public on Thursday.

  • News

    RMJM bashes Beijing boycotters

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    RMJM chief executive Peter Morrison has attacked global figures including Steven Spielberg for boycotting the Beijing Olympics.

  • Technical

    The clipper stripped bare

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    Amanda Birch pays a visit to the Cutty Sark in Greenwich where restoration work is resuming after last year’s fire

  • Opinion

    Kiss the baby

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    Thumbs down to the London mayoral candidates this week.

  • Technical

    How the Cutty Sark rose from the ashes

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    When Simon Beames, project architect for Grimshaw’s Cutty Sark renovation, left the firm to start Youmeheshe, his fledgling practice received a boost by keeping the project. But, as he tells Amanda Birch, this became a major headache last May after a fire caused serious damage to the ship

  • DSP Architects created a ladder-frame bridge with a 34m span.
    News

    DSP puts art at school’s heart

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    DSP Architects has completed an extension to King James’s School at Knaresborough, Yorkshire, which builds over a non-load-bearing flat roof.

  • Prominent elevations are clad in resin-bonded paper with slot windows and horizontal banding; others are finished in dark brick.
    News

    DLA Architecture sets the stage for Leeds University school

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    DLA Architecture has completed work on its £3.3 million Stage@Leeds building for Leeds University School of Performance & Cultural Industries.

  • Trehearne Architects in front of the Hagia Sophia, Istanbul.
    Features

    Jet-setting with Trehearne Architects

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    ‘We take everyone away for a great weekend in a foreign city’

  • Giles Brook: major defects
    News

    MK architects’ department scandal could see it axed

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    One of the last in-house council architects’ departments in the country is facing closure amid allegations of overspending and incompetence.

  • Reused: Oxford Prison has been converted into a boutique hotel.
    News

    Tories want architects to design jails

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    Architects could be asked to design new jails worth hundreds of millions of pounds under Conservative Party proposals for a radical restructuring of the prison estate.

  • Representatives of Atelier des Bâtisseurs, the engineering team for Unité d’Habitation, Marseilles, on its roof, 1949.
    Review

    Trying to build bridges: the roles of architect and engineer

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    The history of the respective roles of architect and engineer, often prone to friction if not outright conflict, is explored in this riveting and entertaining book, writes Tony McIntyre

  • Opinion

    Apocalypse then

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    It is interesting to see the profession closing ranks behind the Smithsons’ threatened — or is it doomed? — Robin Hood Gardens, but am I alone in thinking that it is a bit of a monster?

  • News

    Allies & Morrison wins Olympic media centre bid

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    Allies & Morrison has beaten Hopkins Architects and its partner Bouygues to land the £400 million media centre project for London’s 2012 Olympic Games.

  • Opinion

    Balancing act

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    Boots can’t help but feel a smidgen of sympathy for Robert Torday, ex-PR supremo at Richard Rogers’, who is now defending English Partnerships’ involvement at Robin Hood Gardens.

  • Will Alsop: the RIBA’s Mr Sex.
    Opinion

    Lets talk about...

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    Sex is not a word one usually associates with the RIBA, but could this be about to change?