All Building Design articles in 11 February 2005

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  • The Meadlands Primary School classroom showing how the form has been truncated to provide an entrance portico.
    Building Study

    Tic tac toe

    2005-02-11T00:00:00Z

    As the government plans to dramatically change the look of the UK’s schools, we review a new classroom design by Future Systems

  • Opinion

    Straight talking

    2005-02-11T00:00:00Z

    Patrick Lynch seems to be happier stringing together fancy-sounding, but meaningless sentences than in developing a coherent argument.

  • News

    Spotcheck

    2005-02-11T00:00:00Z

  • Opinion

    Not so sustainable

    2005-02-11T00:00:00Z

    The designs shown for PRP’s affordable house (News Analysis January 28) seem strangely to miss the point.

  • News

    Rising star

    2005-02-11T00:00:00Z

    Young practice Arca has revealed exclusive designs for a £120 million skyscraper it claims will be the tallest residential building in Western Europe.

  • The stadium that inspired Passacaglia for Frei Otto composed by Julian Milone.
    Review

    Stadium music

    2005-02-11T00:00:00Z

    Frei Otto has inspired composer Julian Milone

  • News

    Mersey vision

    2005-02-11T00:00:00Z

    RHWL has received planning permission for its £100 million St Paul’s Square development in Liverpool.

  • Opinion

    Lynch speaks for the mob

    2005-02-11T00:00:00Z

    The piece by Patrick Lynch was spot on (Soapbox February 4).

  • Review

    Lasting resorts

    2005-02-11T00:00:00Z

    Like many architects, Morris Lapidus, US designer of huge resort hotels, had to wait until after he’d died for critical reappraisal

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2005-02-11T00:00:00Z

    Naturally, there will be the usual moaning from small practices, shuffling around irritably in their dressing gowns

  • News

    Howells to the rescue of Titan

    2005-02-11T00:00:00Z

    Firm to ‘solve’ derelict London site

  • News

    Home sweet Home Office

    2005-02-11T00:00:00Z

    As the Home Office continues to cause controversy with its policies on house arrest, staff were this week leaving their own prison of an office block to move into bright and airy new premises designed by Terry Farrell.

  • News

    Shard signs up hotel group

    2005-02-11T00:00:00Z

    Renzo Piano’s dramatic plans for a 70-storey tower next to London Bridge station took a step closer to reality last week when developer Sellar Properties signed a pre-letting agreement with a hotel group to take 18 floors.

  • Visualisation of the first phase, showing a section through the island.
    Technical

    Shifting the graveyard

    2005-02-11T00:00:00Z

    A project in Venice conquers the sea to expand San Michele cemetery.

  • Opinion

    Sinister goings on

    2005-02-11T00:00:00Z

    I couldn’t agree more with the comments of Patrick Lynch.

  • Eva Jiricna
    Features

    Follow the leaders

    2005-02-11T00:00:00Z

    They may be outnumbered six to one, but that hasn’t stopped women making an impact in every area of the profession. As part of our 50/50 Campaign, we celebrate a dozen successful women who are blazing a trail

  • Review

    Find your way there

    2005-02-11T00:00:00Z

    Better known for his geodesic domes, Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion World Map was an attempt to present the world in a less distorted form with a stronger sense of the world as one land mass.

  • News

    Shabby suburbs in need of regeneration, say experts

    2005-02-11T00:00:00Z

    Architects, developers and masterplanners have called on the government to focus more on the plight of run-down suburbs rather than city centres.

  • Opinion

    Good example

    2005-02-11T00:00:00Z

    We read with interest the news of your 50/50 campaign to recruit and retain greater numbers of female architects.

  • News

    Ellen who?

    2005-02-11T00:00:00Z

    Forget Ellen McArthur’s world record, one of the most prestigious prizes in sailing remains up for grabs this year at the Little Britain Challenge Cup regatta held from September 8-11 at Cowes on the Isle of Wight.