All Building Design articles in 7 October 2005 – Page 2

  • News

    Kids give their Stirling verdict

    2005-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Zoë Blackler asks a panel of 12-to-16-year-olds in Bradford which building should win next weekend

  • Opinion

    Minding the gap

    2005-10-07T00:00:00Z

    The RIBA is to be congratulated in asking Bob White — an architect, but better known as former head of construction and project management firm Mace — to chair its Constructive Change panel (News September 30).

  • Blond girl on a bed, by Lucien Freud, 1987.
    Review

    Lucien Freud and me

    2005-10-07T00:00:00Z

    I like Lucien Freud.He is my hero because he is so brilliant at life drawing and I do a lot of life drawing — something completely flowing like that is so different from working on a building with a computer and very hard lines.

  • Opinion

    Task force rifts reflect the real world

    2005-10-07T00:00:00Z

    What should we make of the claims of internal divisions within the Urban Task Force as it prepares to issue its progress report on Prescott and Miliband’s communities plan?

  • The new internal precast concrete stair, with glass balustrade and a unique triangular profiled end piece on each tread. The staircase  links the building’s ground floor to the basement.
    Technical

    Stairs in their eyes

    2005-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Architect 5th Studio has given a modern twist to the 16th century hanging staircase.

  • News

    North East

    2005-10-07T00:00:00Z

    This weeks regional focus

  • News

    Energy crisis

    2005-10-07T00:00:00Z

    The revised plans for the biggest brownfield regeneration site in London will not meet the mayor’s stringent requirements on sustainability because the developer believes it is not currently feasible.

  • Opinion

    HOK corrections

    2005-10-07T00:00:00Z

    In Concrete Boots, September 16, your piece suggests that HOK Sport does not become involved in less significant projects, which is incorrect.

  • Opinion

    Vote of confidence

    2005-10-07T00:00:00Z

    While it is true that my late husband’s archive sustained some damage to its content following an accidental water leak at the RIBA (News September 23), I do not believe this has seriously compromised the quality of the archive as a whole.

  • Opinion

    Heads in clouds

    2005-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Do our top architects spend too much time on planes?

  • News

    Capacity fear sparks schools plan reform

    2005-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Schools programme to be spread out and architects quizzed on capacity

  • Plans for the 1,000-home estate by  Urban Splash and architects Hawkins Brown and Studio Egret West include
    News

    Campaign to save Sheffield estate

    2005-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Urban Splash says £150 million refurbishment will bring ‘love and romance’ back to brutalist Park Hill

  • News

    Buyers say yes to energy saving homes

    2005-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Energy saving features are more important to homebuyers than a fitted kitchen, friendly neighbours or a spacious garden, according to a survey by ICM for the Energy Saving Trust.

  • Opinion

    The future’s bright

    2005-10-07T00:00:00Z

    The Constructing Excellence report was commissioned from Bob White by the RIBA practice committee as part of its Constructive Change agenda.

  • Do you expect me to talk? Ken Adam’s design for the laser room in the James Bond film Goldfinger.
    Review

    Creator of the Bond look

    2005-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Charlie Gates looks at Ken Adam’s influential film production design

  • Edwin Lutyens’ dollhouse for Queen Mary, 1921. The architect was accused by a client of having given it more attention than his project for the Persian Oil Company HQ.
    Review

    Model behaviour

    2005-10-07T00:00:00Z

    A new book on architectural models provides a rich source of fascinating images for a craft that is gaining renewed importance

  • Opinion

    The wrong battle

    2005-10-07T00:00:00Z

    After the Association of Consultation Architects (whose income must be a fraction of that extracted from the profession by Arb) took the initiative and brought BT to the table, Richard Coleman tries to convince us (Letters September 30) that “the board are proactive” in tackling abuse of title.

  • Opinion

    Blot-bashing back

    2005-10-07T00:00:00Z

    The infamous Carbuncle Award in Scotland has been relaunched after a four-year absence and is still unafraid of controversy.

  • Derek Way, chairman of the neighbourhood forum
    News

    Aylesbury residents wary of new plans

    2005-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Long-suffering residents at the Aylesbury council estate in south London have been regaled with five masterplans over the past decade.

  • Chipperfield: A new climate has pushed his practice into a period of reassessment.
    Features

    Playing away from home

    2005-10-07T00:00:00Z

    David Chipperfield has one of the most successful practices in the world. So why, after 20 years, is he still an outsider in his home country?