All Building Design articles in 18 February 2005
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TechnicalTechbrief
In good form Architect John Letton, director of Formworks UK, has developed the Styroframe prefabricated building system. It uses lightweight permanent insulating panels which are assembled on site around a light-weight steel frame. It differs from other prefabricated systems in that the concrete is cast in-situ. Letton says this automatically ...
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News
Spotcheck: Wales
WalesOpera debut The first opera at Capita Percy Thomas’s Wales Millennium Centre, designed by former Alsop associate Jonathan Adam, takes place tomorrow (Saturday). The £104 million centre opened last year, but this will be the first test for the auditorium’s acoustics with a full opera chorus and orchestra. The Welsh ...
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OpinionSizing up the Supercity
In a video playing at his Supercities exhibition in Manchester, Will Alsop says he is “interested in the city we don’t know”. But is the visiting public interested in what he has conjured up for a city of 15 million stretching from Liverpool to Hull?
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NewsSteeling the show
Amanda Birch meets architect Amin Tah, whose practice’s new block of flats clad in Corten steel is making a bold statement in Clerkenwell
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Building StudyMore room at the top
Three decades after Denise Scott Brown lamented sexism in architecture, women still feel forced to hide their identities. We look behind the disguises at some of world’s most interesting women architects
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Opinion
What policy?
In response to Robert Booth’s piece on new urbanism (Editorial February 4), I hate to disappoint your readership. If the UK is to adopt a “US-style urban policy”, then welcome to the desert. The US has no urban policy.
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FeaturesPaint the town
3D ‘painting’ tool Piranesi has been updated. Nick Pickop, director of architectural visualisation firm Tekuchi, puts it through its paces
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Opinion
In need of support
I am a female sole practitioner having worked for many years in local authorities. Men are not usually very supportive of women in the office or on the site, and many women struggle to be one of the boys. It took me many years to realise that builders didn't think ...
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Opinion
Model potential
Andy Feculak’s letter (February 11) regarding the unsustainability of PRP’s Summit House was based on the incorrect assumption that it would be detached. The example on show at the Sustainable Communities Summit was an end-of-terrace designed to be adaptable to different sites. In a three-storey terraced layout, a typical density ...
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Opinion
Missing role model
Your article featuring 12 of the best women architects (Role models February 11) was a good idea, and having worked with Lynne Sullivan at ECD, I agree with her inclusion.However, any such list should include Diana Jowsey at YRM: I doubt whether there are many who know more about healthcare ...
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OpinionTalkbox: Riccardo Marini
Mackintosh-trained architect Marini is Edinburgh’s design leader. He has been working with Terry Farrell to police the design quality of the city’s development, including the 18,000-home Leith Docks given the green light this week.
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TechnicalSummit plans look wobbly
Less talk and more action is needed to launch sustainability policies
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Opinion
The young need a land of opportunity
The nervousness in official circles about the chance of a successful roll-out for John Prescott’s Sustainable Communities Plan just won’t go away.
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Opinion
Just for the Record
Thank you for publishing the Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland’s concerns regarding refurbishment of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Daily Record building (News February 11). It is in everyone’s interest to see it back in use, but that doesn't mean accepting something insensitive. Part of the proposal involved the insertion of a ...
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ReviewInspiration: Western lights
My own experience of unusual weather phenomenon is one of the inspirations for our Daycaster sculpture in Exeter.
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Opinion
Ian Martin
I look forward to a remake of The Wild One, with Johnny and his gang on a trail of latte-fuelled rudeness through Godalming
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Opinion
Historic influence
What was your criteria for selecting the “role models” for aspiring women architects?It does not seem to reflect a representative cross-section of the profession or areas of work where women are particularly successful.In my experience, a great proportion of women architects in the UK work and have achieved excellence in ...
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Features
Helpdesk
Spam pestSpam — it’s a nightmare. Is there anything I can do to control it?Henrik Kiertzner replies: In practical terms, there are ways of configuring more modern email clients - Outlook 2003, for example - to identify and delete spam automatically. An alternative would be to contract with one of ...
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Opinion
Throwing stones at those in glass houses
Wake up all you architectural glass junkies, it’s time for a change.