All Building Design articles in 16 April 2004
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OpinionUnlucky winner
I refer to the front-page story, "Client shows 'contempt' for RIBA contest" (News April 8).First, the Middlesbrough town hall competition was not an RIBA contest. Second, the RIBA did not run a design competition for the Corn Exchange in Bury St Edmunds. The basis of selection was competitive interview with ...
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NewsTallest viaduct
Foster & Partners has unveiled this latest picture of the Millau Viaduct, which is under construction in southern France. The multi-span cable-stayed viaduct will span the Tarn Gorge, completing the A75 motorway, which will link Paris to Barcelona. The E310 million (£200 million) project, developed with French engineer Michel Virlogeux, ...
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ReviewTurning the tables
Artist Michael Samuels will illuminate the AA with frenetic furniture and fantasy islands.
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NewsTable for Toronto
Design students at the Ontario College of Art & Design in Toronto were this week acclimatising to their new Alsop Architects-designed home as they installed equipment in what has been dubbed the "flying tabletop".
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Opinion
Wright stuff
Americans love Frank Lloyd Wright almost as much as they love anything even vaguely historical. So when the two come together the dollars flow, as demonstrated by the $400,000 preservation of a small prefabricated house designed by the master architect in Illinois. The 1957 home is being taken apart and ...
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ReviewA taste of Scotland
An annual Scottish showcase of the arts provides a weak reflection of the country’s architects.
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ReviewReligious revival
The full splendour of German synagogue architecture is revealed in a new book that uses cad to reconstruct 18 synagogues destroyed during the Third Reich. Synagogues in Germany – A Virtual Recon-struction (Birkhauser, HB, 159pp, £26), originated in a student project to computer-reconstruct three Frankfurt synagogues attacked in the 1938 ...
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ReviewRadar: Quinlan Terry
BooksI'm reading books on the Early Church. Orthodoxies and heresies in the Early Church is a fascinating subject. It has parallels with classical architecture, when something that is very good — beauty, light — is over-emphasised and so has errors. The interesting thing about heresy and orthodoxy is ...
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Opinion
Quality in quantity
Further to the article "RIBA plots credentials crackdown" (News April 2), I would like to clarify the issues discussed.My quotes relate to outline proposals for a higher standard of chartered practice. Out of this may come some changes to the RIBA registered practice system, but there are no firm plans ...
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News'Treasure of the province'
Priestman Architects has unveiled its shortlisted design for the landmark Guangdong Museum in China.
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NewsSpotcheck: The North-west
A glass box that will function as a work of art and a public shelter will be Liverpool's next architectural wonder after the city council gave it planning permission. The Outhouse, due to be unveiled in September, is a 7m x 4m structure lit from below by glowing neon strips. ...
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OpinionLessons in prefab
What is wrong with prefabricated schools? Clearly, it is justifiable to condemn the development of a building’s detail design proceeding without the full involvement of its architect. However, “Schools face ‘dumbing down’” (News April 2) did not primarily address this. It appeared to focus more on the suggestion that prefabrication ...
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Housing plot to split rich and poor
Secret Westminster housing plan attacked as 'social engineering'
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Trophy trouble hits PFI
Will Alsop has sparked fears that the much-loathed practice of "trophy architecture" has spread to the £4 billion a year PFI market.
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Saving the gold standard
Architects call for new rules and 'wise heads' to revise competitions.
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Shed KM goes prefab
Designs by Liverpool-based Shed KM for 102 residential apartments at Castlefield in Manchester will be the first for private sale to be built off site, manufacturer Yorkon claimed. Developer Urban Splash has ordered the prefabricated apartments with Yorkon, a subsiduary of Portakabin.
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TechnicalOysters give pearly sheen to Roman shell
Muf chose an unusual material for a park building on a Roman site in St Albans.