All Building Design articles in 28 January 2005
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Opinion
Which weather?
Bill Gething issues a weather warning (Solutions January 21), exhorting architects to take a lead in response to climate change.
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News
Terraced triumph
Malcolm Fraser Architects has won a planning appeal for a cottage and 14 three-storey terraced houses in a conservation area in Dalkeith, on the outskirts of Edinburgh.
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Opinion
Space and time
With acknowledgments to the principles explained in Sir Banister Fletcher’s book, The History of Architecture on the Comparative Method, I suggest architecture of all ages is: space, with a face, for a race, in a place, built with grace. So, see to it you modern version of the great ...
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News
Simpson tower is rejected
Ian Simpson’s dramatic proposal for a 51-storey apartment block in Liverpool has been refused planning permission.
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Opinion
In perspective
I get nervous when “gender equality” is equated with making accommodations for women’s supposed desire for a life/work balance.
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Opinion
We need women
In response to BD’s “Who’s in our sights” listing (News January 7), Stephen George & Partners would like to employ more female architects, but the 50/50 campaign seems somewhat flawed, simply because only 14.6% of architects are female.
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Opinion
Modern manners
Wells Coates’s Isokon may deserve a small place in history, but Embassy Court certainly does not (Works January 21) .
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News
Inskip & Jenkins win Turkish museum job
Peter Inskip & Peter Jenkins has beaten competition from Cesar Pelli to design a museum for a historical site in western Turkey.
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Opinion
Ian Martin
This year all the big clients are more interested in getting into the Guinness Book of Records than winning the Stirling
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Review
Hubris over Manhattan
Once the tallest office building in the world, New York’s Pan Am Building is a ‘micro-history’ of the decline of the modernist movement
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Opinion
Is high-rise really such a tall order?
At the Sustainable Communities Summit next week, John Prescott will push his vision for high-density, low-rise solutions to the housing crisis. But this single-minded, traditional approach has limitations.
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News
Fosters up the Strand
Foster & Partners has won planning permission for its first luxury hotel in London.
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News
Housing’s quick fix
PRP’s affordable house can be assembled in 36 hours. Its test run will be on a site the government has been promising to develop for 6 years. Will construction speed alone solve the housing crisis
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Building Study
Houston in Euston
Hopkins has given the Wellcome Trust a building with an astonishing interior, but its endless glazing evokes the Texas town and displays an unhappy distaste for its surroundings
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Technical
I wish Id done that...architectural model
Jonathan Sergison on Herzog & de Meuron’s model of apartments in Basel
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News
Wow factor will do a lot of damage, warns US urbanist
John Norquist, a government adviser and internationally renowned urbanist, will criticise Britain’s devotion to the “wow factor” and to iconic architecture at the Sustainable Communities Summit next week.