All Building Design articles in 2 July 2004
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Technical
Techbrief
Future performanceA key event at this year's Building Performance exhibition, which explores the future of property, will be a two-day Building Performance is Business Performance conference on October 6-7. The conference will draw together speakers including Richard Saxon of BDP, Mark Way of RMJM and Roger Madelin of Argent. The ...
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Opinion
What people want
I don’t wish to say “I told you so,” about the public’s negative attitude to modernist architecture, but it is no great surprise. What is interesting, however, is Chetwood Associates’ response.Chetwood Associates put it down to the fact that the public are ill-informed or confused. So, presumably, if they were ...
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NewsSecondary modern
A geodesic auditorium pod forming the centrepiece of an £8 million scheme by dRMM to transform Kingsdale School in Dulwich, south London, has been completed. The pod which stands in the newly covered school courtyard, has a faceted skin clad on both sides with lozenge-shaped plywood panels. Atelier van Lieshout’s ...
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NewsMaking waves
Grimshaw has unveiled images of a £25 million scheme that will see the Cutty Sark riding the waves once again.
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ReviewThe light of youth
Dan Ward’s Arc Light (left) and Ulrika Jarl’s bone china wall light (below) are two of the 4,000 works by student designers being showcased at the Business Design Centre in London’s Islington, this week and next. The New Designers show, in its 19th year, brings together new talent working across ...
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Building StudyLessons from the old school
The refurbishment of Kingsdale runs counter to thinking about post-war schools, which is moving increasingly towards wholesale demolition. Poor environmental performance, outmoded teaching facilities and disintegrating fabric blight the rash of buildings completed during the 50s and 60s.
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Opinion
Ian Martin
The Future Systems Selfridges is 'OK outside, like a giant slug, but inside it's only an old people's clothes shop'
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OpinionThe Nimbys need guidance
I have always thought Nimbys may be misunderstood (News June 25). When someone says “not in my back yard”, they may not be saying “not in my back yard because it is mine”, but that they see themselves as its custodian and would say the same if they thought it ...
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News
Green light for TV green plan
The transformation of a village green in Castleford by Martha Schwartz and BDP — to be featured in a TV show about regenerating the West Yorkshire town — has gained planning consent.
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Technical
Goodbye Windy Miller
Why do wind turbines have to spin like windmills? A new concept to be applied between Oxford and Cambridge, suggests they don't.
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Opinion
Move over Glasto
If architecture is frozen music, God only knows what the buildings designed by Fat Midget look like. After the duo’s appearance at last weekend’s Architecture Rocks gig (pictured below) you’d have to cross a giant cornbarn from the Deep South with Daniel Libeskind after 15 espressos and armed with a ...
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Opinion
Game on
The 3D real-time interactive technology reviewed in your article, “Game plans” (Business & IT June 18) is not new, but rather it is the increasing awareness of its benefits that is making it more acceptable. As a registered architect, I have used it within architecture since working in the computer ...
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Review
Seen in fleeting glimpses
Gareth Gardner finds familiarity in an exploration of how buildings are perceived
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News
Homes jitters to hit small firms
Small practices could be hit after the latest construction forecasts showed a sharp decline in maintenance and improvements to private housing.
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News
Fiddlers under the roof
Work has begun on site for Burrell Foley Fischer’s new £2.6 million concert hall in Surrey.The building is for the famed Yehudi Menuhin music school in Stoke d’Abernon, whose former pupils include violinists Vanessa Mae and Nigel Kennedy. The practice won a competition organised by the Yehudi Menuhin Memorial Fund ...