All Building Design articles in 23 July 2004

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  • Technical

    Techbrief

    2004-07-23T00:00:00Z

    Glassy metal Architects may soon be specifying a new type of steel that borrows the atomic structure of glass to make it stronger, twice as hard and more corrosion-resistant than conventional steel. In a landmark breakthrough, material scientist Zhaoping Lu and his team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee ...

  • News

    Power play

    2004-07-23T00:00:00Z

    The Richard Rogers Partnership’s masterplan to regenerate the land around the new Wembley Stadium has won the backing of London Mayor Ken Livingstone. The way is clear for the project now as the mayor has not directed refusal and the scheme is unlikely to be called in.Arb’s professional conduct committee ...

  • Opinion

    Pile on pressure

    2004-07-23T00:00:00Z

    The RIBA Conference in Dublin enjoyed a lively discussion on PFI (News and Editorial July 16), but to say that the public sector is on the road to hell is pushing it. PFI is not about to disappear: it is a funding system that is far too attractive to the ...

  • News

    People

    2004-07-23T00:00:00Z

    Terry Farrell (above) has praised the Streetscape design guide launched by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea last week, which outlines the borough’s design philosophy for the public realm, including the use of materials and reduction of clutter on the street.US lifestyle guru Martha Stewart has sold her Richard ...

  • Opinion

    Monumental risks

    2004-07-23T00:00:00Z

    Public monuments are, by definition, useless (Soapbox July 16): they have no apparent function in our architectural culture, unless, of course, they are called landmarks. But if we are to remember worthy people or significant historical events, they will be with us for as long as society itself exists.Yes, there ...

  • Opinion

    Super-size model

    2004-07-23T00:00:00Z

    We’ll pretty much go to the opening of an envelope, so it was with pleasure that we scooted along to a new phenomenon — the opening of an architectural model. Not an exhibition, oh no. Just the one piece. It did have multi-coloured lights though. The model in question was ...

  • News

    Spotcheck: West Midlands

    2004-07-23T00:00:00Z

    The Royal Shakespeare Company is unlikely to appoint a new architect for the £100 million redevelopment of its Stratford-upon-Avon theatre until the spring.The RSC announced in May that its five-year collaboration with architect Erick van Egeraat was over and speculation has been mounting over his replacement.However, an RSC spokeswoman said: ...

  • Building Study

    Looking for pastures new

    2004-07-23T00:00:00Z

    As townies go in search of a rural idyll and pressure to build in the countryside grows, rural architecture needs reinventing. Ellis Woodman looks at new three schemes

  • Opinion

    Why we need an urban institute

    2004-07-23T00:00:00Z

    What do I mean when I say that the RIBA should become an institute for urbanism? It ceased to be an institute for architects some time ago, instead becoming an institute for architecture. The time has now come to make a bolder step and to open our doors to all ...

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2004-07-23T00:00:00Z

    The Gourd would enhance Tamworth’s world-class city status (already 6.8 on the Pritzker Scale)

  • News

    Hit and miss

    2004-07-23T00:00:00Z

    Hopkins Architects has submitted its 14ha regeneration masterplan in Nottingham Eastside for outline planning permission. The £900 million plan includes 130,000sq m of office space and 125,000sq m of residential, retail and leisure facilities.The RIBA is running a competition to design a new bridge over the A127 in Basildon. Basildon ...

  • News

    Halt for grand Wembley walk

    2004-07-23T00:00:00Z

    A grand scheme to create a new processional route to Wembley Stadium has been shelved.

  • News

    Insurers set out Gateway terms

    2004-07-23T00:00:00Z

    UK insurers this week set out the circumstances in which they would back the government’s massive housebuilding programme in the Thames Gateway.

  • Review

    Freedom on the grid

    2004-07-23T00:00:00Z

    Mostafavi’s last AA review shows students taking the same approach.

  • News

    Futuristic forest

    2004-07-23T00:00:00Z

    John McAslan & Partners has revealed its design for a £3 million bus interchange at Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester. Appointed by Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive the practice, working with engineer Arup and cost consultant Davis, Langdon & Everest, has developed bus shelters based on the idea of a forest. ...

  • Features

    Sarah Featherstone

    2004-07-23T00:00:00Z

    BooksDictionaries and Roget’s Thesaurus: I love crosswords and word games. I am working my way through Chambers Official Scrabble Words in preparation for the forthcoming scrabble championship at my local pub. I like books that have an interest in food, however peripheral. I recently read Midnight in Sicily by Peter ...

  • Opinion

    So, farewell then

    2004-07-23T00:00:00Z

    Paul Foot, radical left wing journalist and one of the founders of Private Eye, who died this week, might have appreciated an item in Concrete Boots. RIBA council member Sam Webb told BD how he used to work closely with Foot nearly 35 years ago to examine the scandal of ...

  • Opinion

    Fail safe

    2004-07-23T00:00:00Z

    George Henderson, emeritus professor at De Montfort University, is the man chosen to unpick the scandal of the 90% failure rate in the part one course at the University of Central England. Henderson may be able to bring some useful experience to bear on the problem — at De Montfort ...

  • News

    Percy Thomas team eyes Iraq health work

    2004-07-23T00:00:00Z

    A team including Capita Percy Thomas and Iraqi-born architect Ali Mousawi has a scoping study for three hospital projects in northern Iraq, BD can reveal.

  • Building Study

    First Look: Northern exposure

    2004-07-23T00:00:00Z

    David Chipperfield Architects has unveiled new images of its $75 million (£40 million) extension for the Anchorage Museum of History and Art in Alaska.