All Building Design articles in 7 October 2005 – Page 3

  • News

    RIBA chief takes blame for Lasdun archive damage

    2005-10-07T00:00:00Z

    RIBA chief executive Richard Hastilow last week accepted responsibility for the damage to Denys Lasdun’s archive, revealed by BD last month.

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    Features

    Architest

    2005-10-07T00:00:00Z

    This week: 30 years ago.

  • News

    Architects failing on disability

    2005-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Work is lost to access consultants

  • Richard Lyon and John Lewis: called into question impartiality of panel member.
    News

    Arb’s insurance battle rocked by resignation

    2005-10-07T00:00:00Z

    The Architects’ Registration Board’s controversial crackdown on architects trading without professional indemnity insurance appeared to be unravelling this week after a member of its disciplinary panel stepped down over a perceived conflict of interest.

  • Opinion

    Rockin’ to BB71

    2005-10-07T00:00:00Z

    There is a myth that lots of cheesy 1980s pop bands are still ekeing out a living in the music industry because they are, to quote the overused expression, “big in Japan”.

  • Frank Gehry outside the Cabe offices in London on Wednesday: “I’m 76. We have tonnes of work now, so that to finish it will probably be most of it for me.”
    News

    Gehry calls time on 51-year career

    2005-10-07T00:00:00Z

    The most celebrated living architect, Frank Gehry, has indicated that he will not take any new commissions.

  • News

    40-storey tower for Elephant & Castle

    2005-10-07T00:00:00Z

    A dramatic 40-storey residential tower by Hamilton Associates featuring a large wind turbine has been proposed for the Elephant & Castle regeneration site in south London.

  • News

    2020 homes too hot to handle

    2005-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Report urges designers and builders to adopt passive and mechanical cooling methods

  • News

    TV programme to build 16-home development

    2005-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Architects’ ability to design housing is set to be scrutinised by millions of prime-time Channel 4 viewers when the hit Kevin McCloud show Grand Designs builds an entire 16-home development on brownfield land.

  • The central part of the new building above the transfer structure behind the original facade.
    Technical

    How we cracked it 15: 15 Sloane Square, London

    2005-10-07T00:00:00Z

    We were appointed by Cadogan Estates to demolish a Victorian mansion block in Sloane Square and build a new six-storey mixed-use building behind a series of retained facades on a site where the Circle and District Underground line runs diagonally underneath only 2m below ground level.