All Building Design articles in 25 June 2004
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Opinion
Wayne’s waxings
Fashion designer turned defender of quality housing design Wayne Hemingway gave us a little window on Wayne’s world this week. An earnest Hemingway told a national newspaper that British developers must stop ruining our built environment with housing that is about as welcoming as “Colditz”. A return to Victorian-style terracing ...
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TechnicalTechbrief
Facade body A professional body for those interested in facade engineering has been set up by CIBSE to provide architects, engineers and manufacturers with a forum to share information. CIBSE recognises that the Society of Facade Engineering is needed to ensure that all those involved in facades work more closely ...
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NewsSpotcheck: The South-east
Richard Rogers Partnership has completed public consultation on a 1,500-home, 13ha development on the waterfront in Southampton. The mixed-use scheme, with the South East England Development Agency (Seeda) , Southampton City Council and English Partnerships, is a redevelopment of the Vosper Thornycroft shipbuilding yard, which Seeda bought for £15 million. ...
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ReviewA song at twilight
Can a film and a salon inform the debate on rehabilitating derelict buildings? asks Peter Wilson
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Opinion
Shiver me timbers
I like the look of Foreign Office Architects’ Korean book building: “One face of the screen is clad in timber, the other in wood” (Works June 18). Is this the meaning of juxtaposition?
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Opinion
Out of the ordinary
I feel just about everybody has missed the point on Malcolm Fraser’s Bo’ness project (Works June 4; Letters June 11 and 18). To criticise it for not looking different or exciting enough is not particularly sensible, but to defend it on the basis of its “ordinary” aesthetic is just as ...
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Opinion
Tall order
Where can I buy one of the beautiful vases illustrated on the cover of BD June 11? It would look stunning on my dining-room table, though I’m not sure it will fit in the sink when in need of a clean.
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Opinion
MSPs’ sanctuary
Members of the Scottish Parliament who have presided over Holyrood, one of the most controversial building projects of all time, will at least be able to relax in front of the telly when it is built, but not without further discomfort. News that nearly 400 TVs will be fitted in ...
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Opinion
In praise of men
One of the best things about being a female architect is working with lots of lovely men. I feel moved to say this in response to the experiences so regularly and aggressively related by Sarah Wigglesworth (In Practice June 4).Coming out of college without ever having seen a roll of ...
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Building StudyTable manners
Will Alsop has won over Toronto with his raucous flying tabletop addition to the Ontario College of Art & Design.
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OpinionMissing link
I can recognise Andrew Matthews' problems only too clearly (In Practice June 18). The bigger the job, the more people get in on the act. But I note that neither the acoustic consultant, the DDA access adviser nor the planning supervisor was present. After a big accident, we are often ...
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TechnicalTechnicalities: Time to see the light
The current fashion is for full-height glazing. This is an effective demon-stration of cladding technology, but does it deliver in practice? The standard for natural daylight is the average daylight factor — a room’s illumination compared with outdoors on a bright overcast day. The human eye is comfortable ...
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News
Plea for no new planning laws
One of Britain’s best known developers has called on the government to freeze planning legislation for five years.
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Opinion
Ian Martin
Contemporary art is rubbish. Or has been incinerated. Or is in the Tate Modern. Or all three...
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ReviewA poetic and humanist philosophy
Helen Mallinson acclaims the new tour de force by the renowned architectural theorist Dalibor Vesely
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Opinion
Grrrls lack polish
Sad news regarding the Prada Meinhof Gang, the riot grrrl act that was due to play at the Architecture Rocks gig tonight. The band — whose leader is based at Reid Architects — has pulled out due to an “inexperienced keyboard player”. Hardly rock ’n’ roll. Gig report on those ...