All Building Design articles in 9 June 2006 – Page 3

  • The central Manchester scheme. Ask Developments is pressing for an early decision.
    News

    Pressure on BBC over move north

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    The BBC is coming under increasing pressure to confirm its intention to move thousands of jobs north. Schemes by Ian Simpson and the Fairhurst Design Group in Manchester and Salford respectively have been shortlisted as the broadcaster's new headquarters, but fears are growing that it may stay in London to ...

  • Opinion

    Relax and take your eye off the ball

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    Harlow is an unlikely place to kick start a housing revolution. One of London's eight post-war new towns, it boasts Britain's first pedestrian precinct and its first tower block too, but its days for experimentation seem over.

  • Zaha Hadid’s retrospective exhibition spirals up the New York Guggenheim, following the timeline of her work over the last 30 years.
    Review

    A voyage around Zaha

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    Zaha Hadid's New York show is a visual feast, writes Marco Goldschmied

  • Opinion

    Don't play around

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    Will the Architecture Foundation's answer to the question "What would the capital look like if planning restrictions were removed?" (News June 2) include any assessment of the effect on air quality, water demand, sewage treatment and CO² emissions?

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    Features

    Architest

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    This week: embarrassing errors

  • Opinion

    London games need landscape architects

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    Hosting the 2012 Olympics is an opportunity for Britain to shine on a global stage, not just as a sporting nation but as a nation of place-makers. We could win gold for track or water based events. We could also create a place with meaning for our crowded 21st century ...

  • Hoete: knife wounds to face and hands.
    News

    Architect's assaillant convicted

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    Practice to move following attack

  • A three light Dwell-Vent window installed at a demonstration project in Norwich.
    Technical

    Nothing wrong with a breath of fresh air

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    Supply air windows are an established idea, but Part L's air-tightness requirements could mean their time has come.

  • Centrepiece of the show is Ian Simpson’s 70 storey tower, Number One Blackfriars.
    News

    Royal Academy show is delirious hodgepodgery

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    What virtues the Royal Academy summer show can claim have never included much in the way of a cohesion of vision. It is a ragbag and contentendly so. That said, year on year the rest of the exhibition is made to look positively monotonous by the delirious hodgepodgery of the ...

  • Multimedia

    Open House Contemporary Episode 2

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    Chris Wilkinson speaking about his schools for the future design at the Arup Auditorium in Bristol on Wednesday June 7.

  • Features

    Ahead of schedule - thanks to a team effort

    2006-06-08T17:29:00Z

    It feels like it's been a week of achievement. We completed the trial fit of the first column on Saturday and Charles [Walker, unit tutor] threatened to smoke his coveted cigar. Saturday was a day to celebrate anyway, as it was Naiara's 20th birthday. We'd been slaving away so ...

  • Anarchitect, 75 Roman Road & 6 Peary Place, London (2006)
    News

    Twelve practices to compete in Cool Wall debate

    2006-06-08T00:00:00Z

    A dozen lucky practices have been chosen to compete in the BD/100% Detail Cool Wall contest during the London biennale