All Building Design articles in 24 September 2004
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Opinion
Space revelation
I have in front of me a thesis that I prepared, as an architectural student in 1948, on Hawksmoor’s London churches.
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ReviewRadar: Tim Ronalds
Books - The longest this year was War and Peace, which I read, five pages at a time, in the middle of the night: it began as a cure for insomnia and then became addictive.
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Opinion
Question of status
If the 20,000 other “architectural designers” that Stan Green refers to (Letters September 17) are as bitter and twisted as he is, then those of us who are qualified to call ourselves architects have nothing to fear. He can jump, stamp his feet, but it won’t change a thing — ...
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Opinion
The professionals
So, Stan Green doesn’t believe in the protection of the title “architect”, and feels it is part of a conspiracy by the architectural establishment, to which he does not belong (Letters September 17).
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NewsPortable premises
Lifschutz Davidson’s £1.6 million community facility for Southwark Council will start on site next month.
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Opinion
Not so naive
As a young architect working on a regional RIBA competition, I ensured that our submission complied with all the conditions, including a modest build budget.
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NewsNew Jersey remembers
Ground has been broken on Frederic Schwartz Architects’ 9/11 memorial in New Jersey.
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Opinion
Ian Martin
Lots of chrome and deep-pile carpet, complicated handshakes, Baroque hi-fis and “blinguistics”
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Opinion
Humber no-go
I can only assume that no one from “the North” had a hand in writing the Spotcheck column (News September 10), as they would have spotted that Humberside ceased to exist in 1996.Emma Coyle, London
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ReviewHighland highlights
A showcase of the best of Scottish architecture is running at the Lighthouse architecture centre in Glasgow.
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News
Human rights threat to heritage
An inquiry into the demolition of Greenside, the acclaimed modernist house by Connell Ward & Lucas, could become a test case for human rights laws.
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NewsMVRDVs jolly green giant
The Serpentine Gallery in London will be covered by a large green mountain next summer, courtesy of Dutch practice MVRDV.
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Opinion
Can the RIBA fight for the good life?
Twenty months after John Prescott launched the housebuilding extravaganza he calls the Sustainable Communities Plan, the RIBA has at last begun to fight architects’ corner.
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Opinion
Nations far from united on money
Your account of the key findings of the Fraser Report into the Holyrood Scottish Parliament building (News September 17) includes that “the £40 million to £50 million budget… was never going to be sufficient to secure an original design”.
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News
UK firms fail to make Ground Zero shortlist
Britain’s leading practices have failed to make two superstar shortlists for theatres and museums on the Ground Zero site in New York.
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Features
Sharp End: Joining forces
Even before Gordon Brown pledged £43 billion of increased funding for education and healthcare, we at Llewelyn Davies were seeking to exploit our reputation in the healthcare market and expand into the burgeoning schools sector.
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Opinion
Staying on message during party season
Over the next few weeks, politicians from the three main parties will decamp to the seaside for the annual party conferences.
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ReviewThe next dimension
Adjaye’s Shoreditch installation scores as both art and architectural preview
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NewsWell-brewed designs
Twenty two of the world’s best-known architects are exhibiting their designs for coffee and teapots at the Sir John Soane’s Museum in the Tea & Coffee Towers exhibition.