All Building Design articles in 8 August 2008 – Page 3
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Opinion
Planning blight
As chair of the Association of Consultant Architects’ planning group, ACA president Brian Waters has asked me to clarify his Debate piece (August 1).
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NewsHadid’s big in Singapore
Zaha Hadid Architects has designed the largest residential development in Singapore, the practice announced this week.
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NewsScott Brown to top Biennale speakers
Denise Scott Brown will be the keynote speaker at a British Council debate on housing design next month.
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OpinionLukewarm Bath
The Bath eco-home by ZedFactory (First Look August 1) comes with all the low-energy bells and whistles one should be seen with, but can a 700sq m family home really be called sustainable?
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News
Watkins Gray to refit Barnardo’s
Architect Watkins Gray International has won a competition to refurbish the new 187sq m office space for children’s charity Barnardo’s in the London Borough of Southwark.
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NewsSaga of Barbican office block stalls
Kohn Pedersen Fox’s design for a 90,000sq m office block beside the Barbican Centre has been shelved after the intended occupier, investment bank JP Morgan, pulled out.
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Opinion
Bad education
As Noel Farrer says, landscape quality is not embedded in the employer’s requirements before the contract is let (News August 1).
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NewsRobinson attacks EH claims on liveability
Housing expert hits out at argument that estate ‘fails as a place to live’
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NewsKen attacks Boris over design policy
Former London mayor Ken Livingstone has accused his successor Boris Johnson of cost-cutting and “hypocrisy” over his changes to the capital’s design policy.
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NewsStarting gun sounds for Athletes’ Village
Planning has been granted for the first element of the 2012 Athletes’ Village in the Olympic Park in east London
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News
Arb strikes off bankrupt architect
John Dowland of Godstone in Surrey has been struck off the Arb register for failing to pay a series of debts, and for failing to report his bankruptcy to the board.
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Opinion
So unfair it’s all based on flair
I graduated about seven years ago, and from day one we had been taught the basics of important areas of construction and theoretical design.
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OpinionWe need to talk about Kevin
Kevin McCloud is right to want to raise the standard of housebuilding, but first he must learn how to be a good developer
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News
Brits shortlisted in under-50 awards
David Adjaye and Thomas Heatherwick have been shortlisted for a new international award celebrating the work of architects aged under 50.
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News
£350m Blackfriars revamp begins
Network Rail has announced that work has begun on a £350 million project to regenerate Blackfriars Station in London
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FeaturesBD's Class of 2008 is going places
From exotic spots such as Istanbul and Rome to more domestic locations such as Sheffield and Whitstable, the ambitions of BD’s five graduating diploma student award winners were scattered far and wide this year. Ellis Woodman, BD’s buildings editor, looks at what marked them out
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OpinionDot to dot results: August 1
Last week’s winner was Heather Roockley of Gelder & Kitchen in Richmond, Yorkshire, who identified Le Corbusier’s Unité D’Habitation.
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Multimedia
Carey Jones in retrospective (video)
Carey Jones celebrated its 20th anniversary with this retrospective swoop through some of its biggest projects.
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FeaturesNewcastle architecture students take on the capital at Dreamspace Gallery
Adrem’s Dreamspace Gallery near Old Street in central London is hosting an exhibition of work by graduating part II students from Newcastle University’s School of Architecture.
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FeaturesClass of 2008: Ross Perkin
Ross Perkin of the University of Edinburgh project explores ideas of porosity, allowing light to leak from the cinema spaces into the surrounding streets.