All Building Design articles in 23 July 2004
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Technical
Techbrief
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 ...
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News
Power play
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 ...
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Opinion
Pile on pressure
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 ...
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News
People
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 ...
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Opinion
Monumental risks
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 ...
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Opinion
Super-size model
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 ...
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News
Spotcheck: West Midlands
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: ...
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Building Study
Looking for pastures new
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
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Opinion
Why we need an urban institute
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 ...
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Opinion
Ian Martin
The Gourd would enhance Tamworth’s world-class city status (already 6.8 on the Pritzker Scale)
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News
Hit and miss
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 ...
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News
Halt for grand Wembley walk
A grand scheme to create a new processional route to Wembley Stadium has been shelved.
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News
Insurers set out Gateway terms
UK insurers this week set out the circumstances in which they would back the government’s massive housebuilding programme in the Thames Gateway.
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News
Futuristic forest
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. ...
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Features
Sarah Featherstone
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 ...
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Opinion
So, farewell then
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 ...
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Opinion
Fail safe
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 ...
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News
Percy Thomas team eyes Iraq health work
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.
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Building Study
First Look: Northern exposure
David Chipperfield Architects has unveiled new images of its $75 million (£40 million) extension for the Anchorage Museum of History and Art in Alaska.