All Building Design articles in 12 August 2005
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Technical
Techbrief
- Green guide The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture is a useful guide for architects wanting to harness the environmental, economic and physiological benefits of living green. Editors Alanna Stang and Christopher Hawthorne have trotted around the globe to bring together 25 contemporary residences that are good examples ...
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News
Spotcheck: The South-east
- De La Warr reopens The De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea will reopen to the public on September 17 as a national centre for contemporary art. The building, commissioned by the 9th Earl De La Warr in 1935 and designed by architects Eric Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff, was the ...
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Opinion
Smoke stack
Swiss Re may be trying to discourage the “gherkin” tag for its HQ, but maybe they should be thankful. Pimlico School architect John Bancroft likes to refer to 30 St Mary’s Axe as “Clinton’s cigar”.
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Opinion
Scouse trashing
A proposed new Mersey Ferries terminal in Liverpool is not getting a good reception from the locals. The building has already been dubbed the “pedal bin” by the local paper for its distinctive roof, while the Liverpool Echo recently ran a story carrying local reaction.
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Opinion
Wrong question
I have to take issue with the compiler of last week’s Architest. Question 4 itself is not correct so neither will be its answer.
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News
Power play
- Small businesses have called on the organisers of the 2012 Olympics to ensure they are in the running for contracts for the games. The Forum of Private Businesses told the London Development Agency it must not let big businesses “bully their way to the front of the queue”.- The ...
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NewsPeople
- Ricky Burdett has been appointed director of the 2006 Venice Architecture Biennale. Burdett, a professor at the London School of Economics, also advises London mayor Ken Livingstone on architecture and urbanism.- A residential scheme by PRP Architects in Oxford opposed by celebrated author Philip Pullman (pictured) was rejected by ...
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Opinion
Life on Mars
Architect Georgi Petrov has drawn up plans for a small settlement with homes made from local materials, adequate parking and skylights. Doesn’t sound too sensational? Well, think again because the settlement is planned for the planet Mars.
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Opinion
Ian Martin
Jim Stirling’s Number One Turkey was never eighties enough. It would definitely be enhanced by sticking a big mullet on it
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NewsHomes in the sand
As the summer season gets under way, residents of Folkestone can look forward to hitting the beach in more ways than one, following the granting of planning permission for these seafront apartments, designed by Aukett Fitzroy Robinson.
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News
Hit and miss
- Northumbria University has won planning permission for a £25 million development to rehouse its School of Law, School of Design and the Newcastle Business School (pictured). The two buildings, totalling 16,000sq m and 8,000sq m, have been designed by Atkins.- RHWL Interiors has been appointed by P&O to design ...
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Opinion
Homes hijack
When Prescott wasn’t launching his £60,000 house on an unsuspecting world this week, he was taking surprised tourists on tours of Downing Street.
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Opinion
Saving heroes
I look forward to the 2005 Architect of the Year awards, but my anticipation would be greater if the award categories included a Conservation Architect of the Year. Across the country there are architects doing excellent work in the conservation and creative re-use of historic buildings, but conservation remains the ...
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NewsSimpson gets taller in Leeds
Ian Simpson Architects has unveiled designs for its second tall tower scheme in Leeds.
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Opinion
Form a queue
But Prescott managed to wrangle the agenda away from terror and back to housing. In an uncharacteristic moment of goodwill, Prescott said of the £60,000 home competition: “Everyone is lining up to criticise the winners of the competition, but I welcome the criticism.” Prescott welcoming criticism? See, he is a ...
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Building Study
First Look: High-density landmark for Poplar
Hawkins Brown has revealed this landmark housing development in east London — one of the highest-density schemes ever approved in the capital.
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News
Sussex towns unite to fight neighbours
The commuter belt of mid-Sussex is set to be transformed by four leading architectural practices.
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News
West meets East
Yorkshire practice Robinson Design Group has forged a joint-venture company with Chinese practice Jizhun Fangzhong Architectural Design Associates to design a 25-storey office tower in China.The practice claimed it is the first such union between Chinese and western architects. The practices also plan to work together on a 1,000ha housing ...
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Opinion
Dont gag the king
In reply to Ian Louth’s letter (Letters August 5)), Ian Martin is the king of architectural satire and must never, ever be gagged or otherwise censored.
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Opinion
Ditch the slum
It is regrettable to see that the overused word “slum” still has currency (News Analysis August 5). Although the intentions behind the United Nations’ efforts to “improve slums” may be good, the word still evokes the practice of labelling an area as a “slum” as a reason for eradicating it ...