All Building Design articles in 26 March 2004
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Opinion
Yorkshire study
The extent to which your article, "Fund axe looms over Yorks Renaissance" (News March 5), misrepresents the purpose and the nature of our work for Yorkshire Forward is remarkable and distressing.Our study is entitled Streets, Space and Society: the role of the high street and its associated public spaces in ...
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TechnicalSonic truth
Arup Acoustics' SoundLab enables architects to hear the acoustic properties of a building before it is constructed.
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OpinionTechno seduction
New technology has led us architects into an insidious trap. The increasingly slick "special effects" made possible by replacing ink with electrons have made us more sophisticated and blasé in our expectations. But this has also had the same special effect on our clients and the plethora of project managers ...
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NewsShortlisted scheme
Three shortlisted teams have unveiled designs for a mixed-use development in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, which features a 60-bed hotel, office, retail and residential space. The Scheme pictured above by Aukett were selected by a panel comprising Rother District Council, the De La Warr Trust, the Regional Design Council and local ...
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News
RTKL
RTKL has unveiled plans for a £100 million, 30-storey residential tower in Liverpool. The 60,000sq m development also includes leisure, retail, more than 300 flats, and four new public spaces designed by Cass Associates. The project has been submitted for planning permission and is due for completion by the end ...
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Opinion
Skylon revisited
"Skylon to rise once more" (News March 19) makes very welcome reading as it was a structure, as with so many others at the Festival of Britain, that inspired young architects at that time. It was my good fortune to work briefly with both Powell & Moya and Eric Brown, ...
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News
Querkraft wins YAYA
The crowded British architecture scene just got busier. Vienna-based practice Querkraft scooped the BD/Corus Young Architect of the Year Award 2004 on Thursday night, pocketing £5,000 and the chance to work for one of the UK's most coveted clients, Urban Splash. Asked whether they were ready to take on the ...
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Opinion
Pringle power
Your article on Jack Pringle (News March 19) demonstrates that he is the only candidate with the courage to commit himself to leading the RIBA in opposition to the most damaging attack on architectural values since the days of system building – PFI.While in opposition, Labour mouthed anodyne sophistries about ...
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Competitions
Welcome the tomorrow people
Five practices under 40 were shortlisted for the BD/Corus Young Architect of the Year Award. Robert Booth introduces the seventh annual award and, overleaf, Ellis Woodman looks at the work of the winners and runners-up
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FeaturesShortlisted: Matthew Springett
A number of jury members were familiar with Matthew Spring-ett's Bartlett diploma project. In 1998, his scheme for an urban pig farm in Lower Manhattan won the 1998 RIBA silver medal.
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News
Northampton list
Six design teams have been shortlisted for the next stage of the competition to redevelop Northampton’s Market Square. The architects leading the teams are Letts Wheeler, Snell Associates, Panter Hudspith, Ash Sakula, Alsop Architects and John McAslan & Partners. The winner will be announced in May.
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Opinion
Keeping mums
I fully endorse the sentiments of the writer of "Motherly Support" (Letters March 19). I am a female architect in her fifties with more than 30 years in the profession and am also the mother of two. The idea of Arb spending money on investigating why women are leaving the ...
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CompetitionsShortlisted: Sarah Hare
Of the entries to make the final shortlist, Sarah Hare's portfolio featured the most substantial built project. Working with her then partner Thomas Höger, she built the £18 million headquarters of the Catholic Church in Berlin, completed in 2001. The project impressed the jury both for the contribution it made ...
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Opinion
Halo slipping
Will Alsop’s vision to project a halo of light over Barnsley looks like being doused by storm clouds in the face of local opposition. The £500,000 halo idea, which is part of Alsop’s much-vaunted masterplan for the Yorkshire town, could be activated as early as next year. But some plain-speaking ...
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Opinion
The show must go on
BD had trouble contacting Zaha Hadid to ask her about the Pritzker Prize this week. Her assistant said she wasn’t feeling well as she was too overwhelmed by all the media attention after the award was announced on Sunday. But Hadid managed to overcome her stage fright and fitted BD ...
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News
Glasgow gets taller
Copper Cromar is to design Scotland’s tallest building, a 39-storey, £100 million mixed-use development in Glasgow. The 134m-high development, known as Elphinstone Place, will stand 9m taller than the city’s Science Centre Tower. The building, for Glasgow-based consortium Elphinstone, will replace the Strathclyde Regional Council offices.
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Opinion
The full story
Your report, “Cabe chairman under scrutiny” (News March 19), suggests that “claims relate to glowing design reviews given by Cabe for a Stanhope scheme” and that “a rival scheme on the site… was given a poor review”. In this regard, you extract two highly selective quotes that do not ...