All Building Design articles in 18 March 2005
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ReviewWomb with a view
Richard Neutra’s architecture followed psychoanalytic principles, argues a new book reviewed by Neil Jackson
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Opinion
Seeking substance
Matthew Barac’s Soapbox column (March 11) echoes comments made by Laura Illoniemi the week before. Both are, in essence, lamenting contemporary architecture’s obsession with image and iconography, at the expense of substance and ideology. I find it a pity that the recent Design Indaba held in Cape Town was found ...
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News
Power play
The property industry breathed a sigh of relief this week when the government announced that it would not ban upwards-only rent reviews on commercial leases. The industry had warned that a ban could stop investors from putting money into landmark projects. Construction minister Nigel Griffiths has renewed his attack on ...
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NewsPeople
Architect and painter Noel Isherwood will be exhibiting paintings on the theme of the urban landscape (right) at the Crypt Cafe gallery in London’s Upper Street, N1, from March 19 to April 28. A number of the paintings have derived from the Lansbury Estate, built in 1951 to coincide with ...
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Opinion
Roll over Rousseau
Hanna Arhendt’s perceptive “banality of evil” is worth reflecting on in all spheres of life. We may be architects, but we are human, well most of us, and therefore not infallible. However, the concept of some form of moral consensus seems to have been left behind in the 20th century.After ...
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Opinion
Opaque process
I was intrigued by two not quite juxtaposed articles in BD March 4. One, by Steve Bee (Comment), advocated the irrefutably good practice of “ensuring that the creation of new places follows a transparent process”. The other, by Will Hurst, on the proposed Station Plaza development in Hastings (News) provides ...
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NewsThe whole of the moon
Bristol-based practice Niall Phillips Architects has unveiled images of its extension for the Wolverhampton Art Gallery. The £6.5 million extension, funded by Advantage West Midlands and the Heritage Lottery Fund, will house the museum’s collection of pop art, including work by Bridget Riley and Richard Hamilton. The extension also ...
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OpinionI was a Mipim virgin
Sandwiched between a mobile phone convention and the annual porn festival, the timing seemed ideal for the 16th Mipim property fair, set in spectacular Cannes, writes Alistair Brand. The event, calling itself Europe’s largest and most successful property conference and exhibition, attracts investors, local authorities, developers, agents, architects and, ...
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TechnicalMaterial world
Amanda Birch uncovers four cutting-edge materials set to revolutionise buildings of the future and, opposite, investigates how practices discover and apply scientific innovations
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NewsMoored in Manhattan
The Richard Rogers Partnership’s new pier for Manhattan may bear an uncanny resemblance to Foreign Office Architect’s award winning port terminal in Yokohama, Japan, but the practice has denied the FOA project was an inspiration. RRP associate architect Andrew Tyley admitted the project was similar, but said the design emerged ...
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NewsShipping magnet
Architect Colwyn Foulkes & Partners has won planning permission for this office building in Felixstowe. The £5 million maritime-themed head office for China Shipping (UK) and Johnson Stevens Agencies has been designed to reflect the local industry and the user’s shipping business. It will provide 3,458sq m of office accommodation ...
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OpinionVisionaries or mad scientists?
These men believe they have the formula to save the planet — a brave new architecture where science takes the lead. Zoë Blackler investigates
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NewsSpotcheck: London
Kray cafe listedA 105-year-old Italian cafe in Bethnal Green, east London, has been awarded grade II listed status. The E Pellicci Cafe, whose owner was born in the flat above the cafe, achieved listed status for its stylish shopfront of Vitrolite panels, steel-frame lettering and rich Deco-style marquetry panelled interior. ...
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OpinionLeaf it out
Please stop it. First dRMM with Kingsdale School at Dulwich. Then Will Alsop with his nursery at Harlesden. And now the managed workspace by McDowell & Benedetti in North Yorkshire (Solutions March 11).Wonderful, boundary-pushing architecture, I am sure, but will you stop putting trees under roofs. Trees are complex living ...
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OpinionJust for the rich?
Linking the live-work building type, with the Sustainable Communities Plan, one could have been forgiven for thinking that the two schemes presented by Ellis Woodman (Works March 4 & 11) might have contained elements that would find wider application, but instead we were shown two architectural examples of the most ...
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OpinionTalkbox: Julian Tollast
Poacher-turned-gamekeeper Julian Tollast has joined developer Quintain as head of design development after 17 years rising through the ranks at Farrell & Partners.
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Opinion
Ian Martin
Correctly predict ‘Budget Boost For Regeneration’. You’ve been Quangoed comes in at 12-1, then Go to Pub and Hair of Dog
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TechnicalNovelty hunting
Caruso St John’s architects were deciding on a material for the acoustic panels on the ceiling of London Barbican’s concert hall, when they arrived at an impasse. The practice didn’t want to use a standard off-the-shelf material, but something fresh instead.
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ReviewInspiration: The hole story
We now know that black holes are at the centre of all galaxies and it’s now believed that galaxies are held together by black holes, so they are really important. The black hole is not the destroyer as used to be thought, but the creator.