All Building Design articles in 13 August 2004
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NewsSpotcheck: South-west
Mixed use for prison site Associated Architects has unveiled details of a significant mixed-use scheme planned as part of the huge Bristol Harbourside development. The proposals, for the site of the former Bristol Gaol, will be submitted for planning permission at the end of this month. The scheme, for Umberslade ...
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Opinion
Sound and vision
The hold music for RTKL’s Beijing office is the theme music from Quentin Tarantino’s movie, Kill Bill. Considering most of the film was shot in China and features lots of martial arts and samurai swords, it is hard to think of anything more appropriate. Except for Libeskind’s “New York, New ...
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Opinion
Razing the roof
Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels actor Nick Moran thought he had created a perfect rooftop chill-out zone to entertain friends at his £385,000 Georgian flat in Camden. But he has been ordered by party poopers Camden Council and English Heritage to tear down the timber-and-glass summerhouse because it defaces ...
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Opinion
Putting years on
Hospital design is under the spotlight like never before following Cabe’s savaging of the proposed Royal London Hospital. So it is cheering to hear that architects at Capita Symonds have transformed themselves into old people for the sake of good design. In redesigning Derby City General Hospital, the architects have ...
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News
Power play
The Department for Trade & Industry has published the latest statistics on the state of the construction industry. The report shows that new construction orders fell by 1% overall for the year to June 2004. Public housing orders rose by 10% for the period, while infrastructure orders fell by 23%.The ...
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ReviewPlant and perch
This week sees the opening of the exhibition of shortlisted entries for the 2004 Jerwood Applied Arts Prize, which this year focuses on furniture. The shortlist includes the London-based El Ultimo Grito: Rosario Hurtado and Roberto Feo, who are exhibiting Land Ho! (pictured), a combined planter and seat, made from ...
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NewsPeople
The Prince of Wales has reportedly waded into the row over windfarms. The Sunday Telegraph reports that he believes the sustainable energy sources are a “horrendous blot on the landscape”.The last-minute construction works for the Athens Olympics could affect the chances of Paula Radcliffe (pictured) in the women’s marathon. Cement ...
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Opinion
Prezzers palace
The Daily Mail was last week apoplectic about changes to the planning guidance on country houses. As part of an outraged article by historian and gardener Sir Roy Strong, the paper created a mock-up dream home for arch-enemy John Prescott. Its attempt at a cutting-edge design included such witty features ...
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ReviewOutfoxing new urbanism
Can a fantasy fox hunt help us to value overlooked spaces? Ellis Woodman finds out
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Opinion
Speaking the same urban language
In his recent article (Soapbox July 23), RIBA president George Ferguson rightly highlights the need to put urban studies at the heart of the urban renaissance if we are going to revitalise our cities and protect the countryside. After decades of neglect, people are once more returning to more civilised ...
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Opinion
Ian Martin
Meeting with Patina: some small talk, some synergy-mapping, then on to the main agenda item — making money
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Building StudyHive of industry
Berlin-based practice Barkow Leibinger is making its name with a series of startling industrial buildings. As David Hills reports, the firm is now competing at the highest level
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NewsHit and miss
Massimiliano Fuksas, Zaha Hadid, Behnisch, Behnisch & Partner, Make/FaulknerBrowns, Dominique Perrault and Bennetts Associates/ Studio Zoppini have been shortlisted to design an aquatics centre in east London. The state-of-the-art swimming centre will be a flagship building for London’s Olympic bid.The London Borough of Hackney is close to appointing an architect ...
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OpinionNo slip-ups here
Further to your article “End of the iconic age?” (News July 23), in which you cite our new visual arts building for Colchester by Rafael Viñoly, I would like to clarify the status and concept of the project.It is an ambitious but viable scheme made possible by a partnership consisting ...
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Opinion
Look no further
To all those firms putting themselves to the trouble of recruiting abroad (News July 30), would it take too much imagination to offer flexible or part-time work? Maybe this could tempt back some of the women who have left the profession in their droves because of the difficulties of combining ...
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Technical
Fire watch
The design of buildings, the materials used, the construction and eventual use have always been of prime importance to the fire service. The role of the fire service through statutory consultation and enforcement of primary fire-safety legislation is well documented.
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Building StudyFirst Look: Islingtons high-rise water feature
Squire & Partners this week released new images of its 35-storey “Shard-like” tower at one of the last undeveloped waterside sites in central London. A detailed planning application for the tower, at City Road Basin near Angel, has just been submitted to Islington council.
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Opinion
Fee farce
It is interesting to note that the RIBA is suggesting that architects will be able to enhance our fees in the future by first subscribing to the long-discredited notion of “architectural determinism” and, second, doing our jobs properly by producing well-designed buildings (News August 6).
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Opinion
Hospital drama
It is clear that the £1 billion Royal London Hospital has some issues (News and Editorial July 30), but to use this to rail against the concept of PFI is unbalanced. Specifically regarding design of such projects — and this would be true no matter the procurement route — ...
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