All Building Design articles in 27 August 2004
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NewsOn the waterfront
EPR Architects’ £300 million mixed-use scheme for the banks of the Thames, opposite the Millennium Dome, has been submitted for planning permission.The Peruvian Wharf project includes 1,500 new homes, a hotel, commercial space, leisure facilities and a new DLR station, West Silvertown.The site also includes a riverside walkway and a ...
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Opinion
Predators step into Royal London ring
Seconds out, round two at the Royal London Hospital. After design watchdogs at Cabe and in Ken Livingstone’s mayoral office landed some heavy blows on HOK’s design, a second team are on their way to cause yet more pain.
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Building StudyThe strongest link
It may be understated, but the new subterranean link between two major art galleries in Edinburgh is a quiet triumph on all levels
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NewsZed set to land in the Valleys
Bill Dunster’s Zedfactory has revealed space-age designs for a remarkable follow-up to BedZed.The £2.5 million mixed-use community and arts centre in Gelli, Rhondda, in south Wales, has been submitted for planning permission.The scheme includes a head office for the charity Artsfactory, a day centre and a nursery. It will be ...
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Opinion
Ian Martin
I switch off the fan and watch the Me–Shell deflate around him. He looks like a petulant cartoon ghost
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NewsThe Wight house
The Manser Practice has submitted a new seafront home on the Isle of Wight for planning permission. The £500,000 home, on a sloping, partially wooded seafront site, will stand 7m above the ground on fou columns. The holiday home will be reached by a 26m-long carbon-fibre bridge at the back ...
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News
Stars line up for Ground Zero
An impressive array of superstar architects are lining up to design cultural centres for the Ground Zero site in New York.
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News
I felt like Paula Radcliffe
Kathryn Findlay admits the agony of folding her practice, but vows she will bounce back
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NewsSurface feels uplifted
Young Architect of the Year Award runner-up Surface Architects has completed a unique lift for a grade II* listed, deconsecrated church in east London. The £180,000 “Ambiguous Object” stands at the intersection of the nave and the transept of the church, which is now used by Queen Mary University’s London ...
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Features
Sharp End: Techno teamwork
Picture the scene: the first technical meeting for the new project. The typical opening gambit is “which version of AutoCAD will you use to send us your files?” Oh, come on. Why do we always have to use the lowest common denominator? Doesn’t everyone realise this is an inefficient use ...
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FeaturesQuick on the draw
Three-dimensional drawing package SketchUp is proving increasingly popular by virtue of its sheer simplicity. As developer @LastSoftware launches the fourth version, Aedas designer Bradley Luke takes a test drive
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News
Going up on Dunstable Downs
A visitor centre in the Chiltern Hills by Archetype has been submitted for planning permission.
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NewsFindlays Doha dream
Kathryn Findlay this week spoke out over the recent closure of her practice, Ushida Findlay, and revealed startling designs for a private villa in Doha, Qatar (pictured).Findlay spoke of her anguish over the recent liquidation, describing it as anything but “voluntary”, and her hopes for a new practice, to be ...
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NewsDressed to distress
Architects are temporarily crippling themselves to understand hospital users’ needs. We joined them in a painful exercise in empathy
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News
School design too shrine-like
Designs for an RIBA award-winning theatre by Ash Sakula had to be substantially revised amid fears that unintentional religious connotations would offend the high number of Muslim users.
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Features
The great software debate
Are management software companies trying to push inappropriate wares, or are architects failing to make their needs clear?