All articles by Damian Arnold

  • Technical

    ‘L’ stands for leakage

    2006-07-14T00:00:00Z

    Airtightness could be a much more effective solution to energy efficiency and reducing CO2 than insulation, according to overdue research on meeting Part L.

  • Part of Galleria West’s facade, which is lit by 4,340 glass discs.
    Technical

    Some light shopping

    2005-05-27T00:00:00Z

    Light box meets video installation in the facade of a Seoul shopping centre.

  • News

    Friendly alien

    2005-01-14T00:00:00Z

    Italy’s quirky Massimiliano Fuksas is taking on the UK. Damian Arnold meets the man behind the bubbles

  • News

    £70m planning fee hike

    2004-12-10T00:00:00Z

    Government proposes fee rises to cover full cost of planning system

  • News

    Row over urban summit

    2004-12-03T00:00:00Z

    Housebuilders threaten boycott of Sustainable Plan summit

  • News

    Ellipse axed in face of opposition

    2004-12-03T00:00:00Z

    Grimshaw’s proposed £30 million extension of the Royal College of Art has been abandoned amid fears that defending the scheme against opposition will prove too expensive.

  • News

    Four out of five fail on access

    2004-12-03T00:00:00Z

    Disability Discrimination Act defied

  • Richard Simmons
    News

    Cabe joins row on university funding

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Cabe has demanded changes to how schools of architecture are funded because it fears that a spate of school closures could lead to a critical shortage of design skills needed to deliver ambitious government housing targets.

  • News

    Nightingale breaks into top three with buy-up

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Nightingale Associates this week became the third-largest architectural firm in the UK after it swallowed up the 53-strong Liverpool-based Derek Hicks & Thew Architects and swelled its ranks to more than 250 staff.

  • News

    Glass cancer hits Foster’s City Hall

    2004-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Investigators called in after several panels crack

  • News

    Bleak future for iconic office

    2004-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Future office design will focus far less on creating iconic forms such as the Gherkin and more on transforming existing interior spaces to suit changing work patterns.

  • News

    Crackdown on foreign architects

    2004-11-05T00:00:00Z

    £2,000 for qualification recognition

  • News

    Cash fears for culture buildings

    2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

    The Victoria & Albert Museum will not commission an iconic piece of architecture to replace the dumped Daniel Libeskind “Spiral” extension.

  • News

    Backing for man-hour fee scales

    2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

    The time taken to design a building rather than a percentage of construction costs could become the new way of measuring fees, under proposals for a new pan-European system.

  • News

    Sheppard in Aukett link

    2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Expansion-hungry commercial practice linked to Sheppard Robson

  • News

    RIBA plans election manifesto

    2004-10-22T00:00:00Z

    If you could sit down with the prime minister over coffee and tell him three things architects could do to improve life in Britain, what would they be?

  • Opinion

    The silent treatment wont passify public

    2004-10-15T00:00:00Z

    When things go wrong, the public’s perception of architects is defined by what they say or do not say. This week the architect Kathryn Gustafson told the world why she was not to blame for the series of glitches that closed the Diana Memorial Fountain. Unfortunately, the effect of her ...

  • News

    Southwark window outrage

    2004-10-15T00:00:00Z

    Angry residents at a celebrated 1950s housing estate in south London are taking action against Southwark Council for ripping out original timber windows and replacing them with uPVC.

  • News

    Future sees return of icons

    2004-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Crystal-ball-gazing study predicts 5 million new homes, a London ‘megopolis’ and 24-hour cities in 20 years

  • News

    Fears mount over Labour design u-turn

    2004-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Urgent calls for safeguards in schools and healthcare