All Building Design articles in 21 January 2005

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  • Overglazed and poorly insulated 1960s buildings as shown here in the City of London in 1963, may need to be demolished in the light of recent climate change research.
    Technical

    Weather warning

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Sixties buildings must come down, argues our new columnist

  • Opinion

    Wooden spoon

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    I read both your comment and the article on Goldsmiths.

  • News

    Welsh showcase

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Wilkinson Eyre is close to completing the £30 million National Waterfront Museum in Swansea, South Wales.

  • Review

    Soanes sculptor

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    His influential work moved bystanders to tears and was the first contemporary sculpture that John Soane collected.

  • Opinion

    With regret

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    I would like to extend my deepest sympathies to the Architecture Foundation on the result of its competition.Sam Jacob, London

  • Review

    Radar

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Pierre d’Avoine

  • Features

    Platform

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Welcome to BD’s new IT section, eArchitect. We aim to deliver more comprehensive computer-related material than ever before. Our aim is to keep you up to date with IT developments and provide accessible hands-on advice, while continuing to tackle the bigger, more thematic issues.

  • Opinion

    We must do more

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    As one of the architects featured on your cover (News January 7), I would like to congratulate you on your campaign.

  • Opinion

    Men out

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Perhaps the most humane way to improve the ratio of men to women in architecture would be to encourage men to leave the profession. They could then get higher paid jobs with better hours, pensions and promotion prospects than seems possible in architecture.Judy Carr, Leicestershire

  • Piercy Conner’s INREB sustainable communities competition image showing rendered section of vertical stacked uses.
    Features

    Minimal Max

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    3D Studio Max has been updated, but is it too little too soon? BD arranged for Piercy Conner Architects and visualising firm Smoothe to try out version 7

  • Opinion

    Stone-age man

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Whatever else your admirable 50/50 campaign achieves, it has exposed some chauvinistic attitudes among your male readers.

  • Features

    New year wish lists

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    To kick off eArchitect — our revitalised IT section — we asked a wide range of architects to send a message to the computer industry. Below, they outline what the priorities of IT providers should be in 2005

  • Review

    Nature intervenes

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Richard Holder reads how Darwinism and botanical discoveries affected the 19th century built environment

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Prescott calls our bluff. He’s called in some young mudflat regeneration crew called Urban Plop

  • News

    Howells joins Southwark tower project

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Glenn Howells Architects has been enlisted to work with Allford Hall Monaghan Morris on a controversial 12-storey development in Southwark, south London.

  • Features

    How we did IT

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Architecture Foundation HQ, Zaha Hadid Architects

  • News

    Zaha hits the jackpot

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Zaha Hadid Architects has beaten competition from a shortlist of European practices that included Herzog & de Meuron to design a 700-seat concert hall and casino in Basel, Switzerland.

  • News

    Viñoly theatre hit by politics

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Time and cost overruns in Leicester

  • Features

    Helpdesk

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Each month readers can email us with IT-related queries, which will be published anonymously. Our Helpdesk team (independent IT consultant Stephen Pacey and Henrik Kiertzner, IT chief at Arup) will attempt to solve your queries — but readers are also invited to submit answers of their own.

  • Opinion

    Succumbing to the hard sell

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    We have finally succumbed to the death of any sort of utopian goals in architecture by simply allowing products to be presented as cultural icons without attempting to attach a level of critical reflection.