All Building Design articles in 17 September 2004
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Opinion
Zero tolerance
Anyone who saw the Ground Zero documentary recently will know to take statements that all is well on the design team with a big pinch of salt, but Daniel Libeskind seems content. “We are at a good point,” he gushed. “We are at the final stages of negotiation with Larry ...
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Opinion
Timber specified
BD: Our survey of architects’ use of Forestry Stewardship Council approved timber reported Alsop Architects’ assertion that the practice had not used FSC-timber on The Public in West Bromwich. The client has written to correct this stating:“We have specified the use of FSC wood in Clause A.6515 of the tender ...
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NewsReady for takeoff
A ski jump and judges’ tower in Klingenthal Germany designed by London-based m2r Architects has started on site. The practice said the design concept was for a steel structure reduced to its basic elements. Each functional element is attached separately to the main structure and therefore can be modified individually ...
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News
Power play
Shadow construction minister Henry Bellingham MP has promised any future Conservative administration would act on the “shortcomings” of the PFI initiative. Announcing a Fair Deal for Construction, Bellingham also criticised framework agreements that exclude smaller local firms in the industry.RIBA and the Institution of Civil Engineers will join forces to ...
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News
People
A Jean Nouvel-designed table is part of a new range for Habitat, the store has revealed. The £1,200 item is part of the VIP (Very Important Products) range celebrating Habitat’s 40th anniversary and including designs by actor Ewan McGregor, boxer Lennox Lewis and fashion designer Paul Smith.A memorial to the ...
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NewsOn the market
Van Heyningen & Haward's proposal to redesign Bolton Market Hall has been submitted for planning. Under the £20 million scheme, modern retail space would be fitted into the grade II listed hall. A new retail building with a zinc-clad roof would also be added on the site of the old ...
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Opinion
Mandy mistake
Talking to Arb about misuse of the term “architect”, CB was surprised to hear Peter Mandelson’s name crop up. Apparently, Arb gets a regular flow of complaints from the public about Mandy because the media often refers to him as an “architect” of New Labour. Yes that is so confusing ...
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NewsSpotcheck: Northern Ireland
Square on siteA £100 million retail development in the heart of Belfast is set to start on site in two weeks. The 600,000sq ft development, known as Victoria Square, has been designed by BDP’s Belfast office for AM Development. In November, a 20-storey office block on the site will be ...
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Opinion
Ian Martin
Mostly everything is turd-shaped. Darcy says this is to do with a catharsis of the Aristotelian thought-world
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News
Public housing market slump
Construction orders to build public housing, have taken a worrying dip in the past quarter, according to the government’s latest construction order figures.
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NewsHit and miss
The glazed Allies & Morrison headquarters at 85 Southwark Street has won the RIBA London Building of the Year Award. The A&M- designed building beat competition from 18 other London practices that had won RIBA awards earlier this year.Eight practices, including Alsop Architects, Allies & Morrison, David Chipper-field Architects and ...
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Opinion
Help the urban poor to help themselves
In just four years, the majority of the world’s population will be living in urban centres. Despite common conception, the majority of these urban residents will not be living in the megacities of Mexico City, Tokyo, New York and London. Rather they will be in the southern hemisphere, particularly Asia. ...
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Opinion
Health matters
I read the August 27 Leader “Predators step into Royal London ring” with great interest. Having done some assessment work on the design scheme, I have to say this bid has a very complicated brief.There is no basis for saying the design by one consortia is better than the other. ...
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OpinionHarsh but true
While sympathetic, I am not sure I entirely agree with David Hebblethwaite about Channel 4’s Trouble at Ground Zero programme (Letters September 10). Pitting the faux naive “idealist” Libeskind against the smooth calculating developer’s hack Childs did make “gripping” soap drama but was it unfair to architects? Most architects ...
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Opinion
Holding Hans
The high-priest of Austrian post-modernism, Hans Hollein, visited the Venice Biennale last week. Boots was keen to know what perhaps the world’s most unfashionable architect made of the British Pavilion. Nine Positions, he suggested, was at least six too many. Pawson and Lim got measured blessings but Hollein reserved his ...
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NewsGuess who?
Alsop’s back with designs intended to regenerate the leafy London borough of Harrow. Already they have been criticised by a local conservation society.The concept-stage proposals, centred on Harrow on the Hill tube station, involve a new bus and rail terminal, a pedestrian link across the tracks, homes and retail and ...
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Opinion
The name game
Don’t worry aunty Beeb, you are doing nothing wrong by referring to TV presenter Charlie Luxton as an architect (News September 10). He, like 20,000 other “architectural designers” in the UK, are in-fact architects (design and supervise the construction of buildings). A problem only arises when they trade under a ...
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News
Tube listing scuppers Farrell
Hopes of developing a mixed-use scheme above South Kensington tube station now look slim after the building was listed.