All Building Design articles in 11 March 2005
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NewsSweden-based British architect, Ralph Erskine, died on Wednesday aged 91 in his home town of Drottingholm, near Stockholm.
Erskine had been suffering from ill health and suffered pneumonia in January.
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NewsYour victory
BD’s campaign for more women in architecture smashed through its target on International Women’s Day last Tuesday and architects from the campaign’s backers rallied in central London to celebrate its success.
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Technical
Techbrief
Weather beater Corus Colour-steels has launched a new range of coated steel products for use in rainwater applications. Designed for flashings, parapet copings and flat roofs and gutter systems, Aquatite TPO consists of a waterproof membrane factory bonded to a galvanised steel substrate. Corus says the 1,200 micron-thick thermoplastic polyolefin ...
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NewsSpotcheck: Scotland
No will Scottish architect Andrew Doolan, who helped to establish the RIAS’s £25,000 architecture prize before his sudden death last year, did not leave a will for his £20 million fortune, which will be split between his two younger sisters. Doolan is best known for the Point Hotel and Conference ...
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NewsPower tower
RMJM this week unveiled images of an innovative 25-storey eco-tower for a brownfield site in the Granton area of Edinburgh.
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News
Power play
London mayor Ken Livingstone has lifted his objection to an extension by Barnsley Hewett & Mallinson for the grade I listed Royal Ballet School in Richmond Park. The mayor dropped his objection after the school agreed to a broader outreach programme to make it more inclusive.Cabe has pledged that the ...
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Opinion
Royal philosophy
For probably the first time in my life, I agree with something Prince Charles has said.
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Opinion
Piling on the perks
RTKL was mentioned in BD’s careers guide as one of the top five firms for perks. It did not, however, mention nearly half the benefits that we offer.
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News
People
RIBA honorary secretary Michael Highton has died, aged 62, following a long illness. RIBA president George Ferguson said: “Michael was a wise and delightful colleague who won great respect and affection from all he came into contact with.”Arb has suspended architect Stephen Charles Manship from the register for 18 months. ...
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News
‘Mediocre’ tower in political row
A residential tower in Sheffield city centre by Conran & Partners has become engulfed in a political row after an opposition councillor branded the design “mediocre” and “unexciting”.
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ReviewWebb master
Sheila Kirk has spent 25 years researching the life and work of Philip Webb, regarded as a key figure in the arts & crafts movement and also a trailblazer of modernism.
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Opinion
Loose morals
Your article on ethics exposes the utter lack of a moral imperative in architecture.
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TechnicalA lean-to to learn from
A super-insulated roof caps off the carbon-neutral Humber Centre in Hull
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Opinion
Lead the way
Architects should lead their clients and insist that all buildings use renewable energies, doing away with unsustainable materials and dinosaur construction techniques that use massive amounts of embedded energies and reliance on fossil fuels.
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ReviewInspiration: Man with a plan
With my family roots in the Isle of Man, it wasn’t difficult to fall in love with the early work of Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott found there.
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Opinion
Ian Martin
Sitting in a Stalinist multi-level bachelor pad with shagpile carpet and a piranha pool is my client, ‘Comrade Orange’
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NewsHomes on high
The race is on to build the tallest residential tower in London as the still buoyant housing market and the slow office sector means architects are turning once again to high-rise homes.