All Building Design articles in 15 October 2004
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NewsWelsh sun trap
Capita Percy Thomas has completed an innovative £10.7 million electronics incubator in North Wales powered by solar panels. The Optic Building in St Asaph, Clwyd, features one of the largest installations of photovoltaic cells in the world. The 1,000sq m of cells, which form a black, curved facade down the ...
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Opinion
Wright stage
When George Bush and John Kerry had their final public debate on Wednesday in the run-up to the US presidential election, it was against a backdrop originally designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Iraq. The Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium at Arizona State University was originally going to be the Baghdad ...
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Opinion
Raising a squiggle
So Zaha Hadid may finally get to build in the UK, with a £50 million transport museum in Glasgow. Of course, she has won commissions in the UK before that have failed to transpire. Her competition-winning design for the Cardiff Opera House was unceremoniously dropped nearly a decade ago. But ...
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News
Power play
- The RIBA Council has approved a plan to allow architecture students free membership of the institute. The initiative will cover more than 10,000 students on RIBA-validated courses.- Tewer than six candidates were due to be interviewed yesterday for the job of Cabe chairman. Former environment secretary John Gummer confirmed ...
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News
People
- Sean Connery (above) this week used a radio interview to launch an outspoken attack on press reporting of Holyrood. Connery said the media was overly negative and suggested legislation to limit press criticism. - Srank Duffy, a founding partner of design consultancy DEGW, has received the President’s Award from ...
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Opinion
The silent treatment wont passify public
When things go wrong, the public’s perception of architects is defined by what they say or do not say. This week the architect Kathryn Gustafson told the world why she was not to blame for the series of glitches that closed the Diana Memorial Fountain. Unfortunately, the effect of her ...
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News
Southwark window outrage
Angry residents at a celebrated 1950s housing estate in south London are taking action against Southwark Council for ripping out original timber windows and replacing them with uPVC.
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Building StudyOut of the shadow
A huge risk, a major scandal, but does the architecture of Holyrood truly stand for Scotland? asks BD
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News
RIBA mulls tough line on timber
The RIBA will consider its advice to architects on timber sustainability after Greenpeace condemned two more lottery-funded projects, by John Miller & Partners and Zoo Architects, for using endangered wood.
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ReviewModern life is rubbish
Despite his reactionary attitude, ‘progressive classicist’ Raymond Erith produced a series of delightful buildings, which are celebrated in a new exhibition.
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Opinion
Ian Martin
I’d suggest putting them on the market as a boutique hotel, a Museum of Democracy and a religious timeshare
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NewsHit and miss
- Lab Architecture Studio and Peter Inskip & Peter Jenkins Architects have made it to the final two in a competition to design a new Museum of Bristol. The original shortlist included Alsop Architects, Allies & Morrison, David Chipperfield Architects and Wilkinson Eyre. A winner will be announced at the ...
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Opinion
Green shoots of sustainability
Here’s a statistic for you. Every year in the UK, 3.5 billion bricks are made and 2.5 billion are destroyed. It doesn’t take a genius to work out the absurdity of such an equation, especially as the construction industry comes under growing pressure to do more than just curb its ...
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NewsHandy for a gallery
Conran & Partners has won planning permission for a new residential tower in Salford Quays, opposite the Lowry Centre and the Imperial War Museum.
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NewsLeeds sets out vision of future
Yorkshire city unveils strategy to be at heart of Prescott’s Northern Way
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Features
Tony Fretton
BooksI am reading the A+U on Peter Zumthor, a book of detailed photographs of Gaudí’s Casa Mila, Eileen Harris’s book, The Genius of Robert Adam: His Interiors, the Netherlands Architecture Institute’s The Dutch Domestic Scene and Aalto’s complete work. There’s also a Dutch dictionary to help with my language classes, ...
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Opinion
French stick
Film director Michael Winner this week showed his knowledge of architecture on BBC2’s Room 101. Winner wanted to put all modern architecture into the room of guests’ most hated things, and by that he meant all buildings built circa 1970 or later. Having banged on about “dreadful glass buildings”, Winner ...
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News
Fighting fund for Salisbury
A group of architects has launched a campaign to raise £120,000 to finance rebel board member Ian Salisbury’s legal battle with the Architects Registration Board.
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News
Secret talks failed to save Fourth Grace
The consortium behind the scrapped Fourth Grace project in Liverpool held secret talks with the owners of the site in a last-ditch effort to save the scheme.