All Building Design articles in 18 June 2004
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Building StudyThe written world
Architecture Research Unit's scheme for centralising the South Korean publishing industry is emerging from the wetlands near Seoul.
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NewsTexan triumph
Foster & Partners has unveiled designs for an opera house at the Dallas Centre for the Performing Arts in Texas. The $140 million Winspear Opera House has a horseshoe-shaped auditorium that seats 2,200 people, surrounded by a main lobby of curving glass planes rising 20m. The lobby could be opened ...
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TechnicalTechbrief
Talking trash How about a rubbish bin that never needs emptying? Swedish company Envac has designed a waste collection system that sucks waste from a bin once it is full. An underground network of pipes is installed 2m deep, and this transports waste by a pressurised vacuum from the specially ...
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Opinion
Shuttles worth
It’s great to see BD giving its full support to Ken Shuttleworth’s new practice since he split from Foster’s six months ago. Only six months ago I didn’t know (and cared even less) about Norman Foster’s other partners. But thanks to the tireless campaigning of BD, we can read ...
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ReviewShanty town seating
Fernando and Humberto Campana are the hot ticket in Brazilian design. Neither brother intended to be a furniture designer — Humberto studied law and Fernando architecture — but they started making furniture out of found objects from shanty towns in their native Sao Paulo; and now, 20 years later, they ...
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Opinion
Simplicity reigns
We read with dismay Paul Edwards’ criticism of Malcolm Fraser’s Bo’ness housing. Yes, the scheme is “ordinary”, but ordinary in an unpretentious, beautifully simple and elegant fashion that contrasts with the wilful gimmickry of much contemporary building. Fraser has achieved modern housing rooted in the locality, and one can imagine ...
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News
Place in the sun
Edward Jones, partner at Dixon Jones Architects, has designed his own villa in the south of France. The villa, which is a 45-minutes drive from St Tropez, includes a 15 metre by 4 metre swimming pool, studio space and four double bedrooms. The main building is linear in plan to ...
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Opinion
Mutual respect
Regarding Sarah Wigglesworth's article (In Practice June 4), I recently attended reviews of the first-year final project at the University of Sheffield, and was especially impressed by the peer-led review procedure.At the "Studio Culture — Who Needs It?" conference in Oxford in December, it was noted that the days of ...
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Opinion
Tory multitasker
Caroline Spelman MP is a woman in a hurry. Quite literally. The Tory shadow cabinet member fitted in an interview with BD between two meetings and even ran the length of Whitehall to vote in a House of Commons division halfway through the interview. She returned from the vote out ...
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NewsMaster of suspense
Designs for a futuristic monorail system above the streets of London went on display at the Royal Academy this week. Architect Guy Pearce has worked up proposals for a £1.7 billion, 270km network of electrically powered vehicles which would run along an elevated line complete with suspended stations. Pearce, who ...
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NewsSpotcheck: Northern Ireland
Private finance investment of £500 million in Belfast's schools, libraries and youth clubs is being geared up for by Northern Ireland practices. The investment programme includes 83 schools, 37 youth clubs and 21 libraries. A shortlist of three bidders for the £125 million phase one will be announced in early ...
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Opinion
Mark of honesty
While always relishing the more flamboyant cutting-edge designs often featured in BD, I found the article on Malcolm Fraser’s Bo’ness housing refreshing in illustrating a scheme where the architects suppressed any desires to leave their “mark” on an area for the sake of honest, vernacular housing. It would be interesting ...
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ReviewHeavenly legacy
Catherine Croft enjoys a celebration of Henry Hitchcock and John Summerson — two maverick and still hugely influential architectural historians
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Opinion
Happy homes
Yup, it’s plain. There is no architectural interest in how we’ve twiddled over the basic housing box, or delivered the government’s housing agenda; no wow factor, and most decidedly no fashionable, ironic attachment to the dull, British institution that is suburbia.At Bo’ness we set out to recover the good ...