All Building Design articles in 11 June 2004
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NewsOn the waterfront
Wilkinson Eyre Architects has released images of its landmark designs for Liverpool's Kings Waterfront as part of a new public exhibition. The scheme, part of a masterplan by Edaw for an area adjacent to the Albert Docks, includes a 10,000-seat multi-purpose arena, a conference centre and public plaza. The project ...
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Technical
Techbrief
Potter & Soar, manufacturer of architectural wire mesh, has added a new pattern to its expanding St James mesh portfolio. The new herringbone pattern is suitable as a wall covering, room divider or as a screen. The mesh can be specified in either polished or recycled stainless steel, but non-ferrous ...
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News
Spotcheck: Yorkshire
Leeds-based practice Bauman Lyons has unveiled designs for a landmark project in Hull. The architect is in the process of finalising planning submissions for the Dry Dock scheme — a collaboration with Terry Farrell Architects for Hull Time Based Arts. The structure would comprise performance space, a library, shops and ...
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Opinion
United silence
I am writing to ask you to correct the record on two articles you recently published (News February 20 and May 14).The first is Arb's policy on confidentiality. The board wanted a transparent policy and set up a working party of board members to formulate the policy. On first considering ...
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News
Three on shortlist
Three teams of architects have made the final shortlist for a centrepiece project as part of the regeneration of Barnsley.
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OpinionRod Sheard
The Australian director of HOK Sport designed Lisbon's Estádio da Luz, home of Benfica football club, which hosts the Euro 2004 clash between England and France this Sunday
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Opinion
Power slant
Your Power 40 (Special report May 14) contains some interesting perceptions of the powerful. The description of “the Chinese system of centralised control” stretches euphemism to its limits, praising the president of a state that sentenced to three years in prison the defence lawyer who assisted hundreds of displaced families ...
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Opinion
Whipping Post
As Daniel Libeskind himself admitted during a lecture in London last year: “The New York Post doesn’t like me”. That is an understatement. A recent editorial in the Murdoch-owned tabloid pulled no punches, asserting: “Libeskind seems to be more concerned with shameless self-promotion than restoring New York’s skyline and commercial ...
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TechnicalSensory perception
Environments that respond to their inhabitants are no longer the stuff of fiction.
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Opinion
Questioning Peabody priorities
Charles Thomson (Letters May 28) praises the Peabody Trust for its high-quality design, buildability, sustainability and innovation, while damning many in the social housing movement as second-rate with regard to the quality of their own new developments.Apparently, allowing schemes to overrun budgets and delay the upgrading of properties should ...
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News
Make way for the Vortex
BD can exclusively reveal the first eagerly awaited project to emerge from Make, the office of former Foster’s partner Ken Shuttleworth. The man behind the Swiss Re tower in the City of London is planning to return to his old stomping ground with a dramatic reinterpretation of the skyscraper.Taking its ...
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Opinion
No kidding
Huddersfield-based architect Mark Lee has an interesting sideline — designing colourful educational school books featuring cartoon characters known as the Kid Premiership. Lee, who is developing the business with his wife, Caroline, told the Huddersfield Daily Examiner about the origins of the idea. “I just got this idea in my ...
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Review
Shaping a new sense of identity
Karen Glaser is impressed by a new book of academic essays on Zionist ideology and the built form
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Opinion
Ian Martin
It's not long before there's a conflict of interest, as I'm not in the least bit interested in what he's saying
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News
Rouse rejects radical social housing
The new chief executive of the Housing Corporation, Jon Rouse, has played down the role of radical design innovation in new affordable housing.
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NewsHome of their own
Scottish architect Nicholas Paterson left Foster & Partners last year to establish his own practice, Paterson Architects, just outside Edinburgh. His new practice, founded with his partner, Bartlett tutor Jane Paterson, has just won planning permission for a timber-framed house in East Lothian, Scotland. The £120,000 home, for the Paterson ...