All Building Design articles in 16 July 2004
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Technical
Techbrief
Hot off the pressA new guide to underfloor heating has been published by the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) Domestic Building Services Panel. The Underfloor Heating Design & Installation Guide — to enable architects to understand basic principles and design techniques — covers floor structures and finishes, ...
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Building StudyTaking them to the Tower
Stanton Williams has turned the previously neglected spaces around the Tower of London into a lively external foyer.
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FeaturesOff the shelf and on target
When Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners needed a new knowledge management system, the business systems manager took the pragmatic view — customise an existing system.
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News
Power play
The chairmanship of Cabe was advertised last weekend at £42,000 a year for a two-day week. Applicants have until September 10 to respond.Lack of investment has meant the quality of English public parks has fallen far behind that of other countries, according to a new Cabe report, which calls for ...
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News
Wind rocks Welsh tower plans
Plans for the tallest residential building in Wales may be derailed over fears the 29-storey tower in Swansea could trigger high-speed winds.
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News
People
Legendary American architect R Buckminster Fuller has been honoured with a commemorative US postage stamp (below), 50 years after he obtained the patent for his most famous invention, the geodesic dome.Daniel Libeskind has launched a lawsuit against Larry A Silverstein, the developer of New York’s Freedom Tower; just days after ...
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News
Tall order
Architects are being sought to take forward designs for the tallest residential towers in Manchester. Developer BSC Group has won planning permission to build two connected 190m towers, topped with a wind turbine, at Greengate on the border with Salford. Outline planning permission was secured for a previous proposal — ...
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Opinion
Starry night
As we all know, architecture rocks, so what better place to put up the speakers at last week’s RIBA annual conference in Dublin than in a rock star hotel. Bedding down for early nights with a mug of cocoa in neighbouring rooms to ABK’s Peter Ahrends and Davis Langdon’s Paul ...
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News
Second tower mooted for Waterloo skyline
Lifschutz Davidson scheme could include 40-storey landmark tower
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Opinion
Twisted logic
Michael Wigginton queries my comment (Letters July 2) that students are “inducted” into the modernist approach to architecture by saying: “Our students form their own views… resulting no doubt from the reading and discussion they are involved in day to day.” Exactly. Inducted. I cannot imagine a better definition of ...
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News
Tobacco Warehouse thrown a lifeline
Liverpool’s iconic grade II listed Tobacco Warehouse could be saved from dereliction and ultimate demolition under an ambitious scheme by London-based practice Thinking Space.
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Features
The joys of self-build
Despite the wide range of office-management products available, Broadway Malyan wrote its own.
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Features
Jack Pringle
BooksRecent reads have been Tony Parsons’ Man and Boy, which I found embarrassingly perceptive, and Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential, which put me off swordfish for life. But it is Indian writing in English that I find the most fascinating and seductive, particularly Arundhati Roy’s God of Small Things.ExhibitionsLast year’s Weather ...
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News
Irish say no to PVC windows
The Irish government has put a stop to what it sees as a plague of PVC windows infecting the country’s historic building stock.
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Opinion
Ian Martin
The Irish government’s latest campaign to preserve historic buildings: No Surrender to the PVC
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Opinion
How modern
Many architects attending the RIBA conference must have thought the UV lighting in the toilets awfully trendy. They were audible gasps then when speaker, and Gillespies partner, Brian Evans told the audience that the lighting is actually a tactic to deter heroin addicts because it prevents them “finding a vein”. ...
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NewsHit and miss
The John Pawson-designed Marks & Spencer Lifestore in Gateshead is to close after disappointing sales. The cedar-clad store opened in February and was championed by former M&S guru Vittorio Radice.The historic Primrose Hill Studios have been grade II listed by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport following a campaign ...
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News
Public sector on road to hell
Resentment over the government‘s handling of public building boiled over at the RIBA conference in Dublin last weekend with dire warnings that Britain is heading for a “hellish world” of poor-quality buildings.
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Opinion
Staying safely within guidelines
Last week’s article, “Prefab security slammed” (News July 9), claimed that design flaws with our Raines Court scheme have led to security breaches.The security at Raines Court is extremely high for a development of its kind. Breaches have been due to the nature of the area, which, as Will Hurst ...