All Building Design articles in 28 January 2005

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  • Opinion

    Which weather?

    2005-01-28T00:00:00Z

    Bill Gething issues a weather warning (Solutions January 21), exhorting architects to take a lead in response to climate change.

  • News

    Terraced triumph

    2005-01-28T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Spotcheck

    2005-01-28T00:00:00Z

    The North-west

  • Opinion

    Space and time

    2005-01-28T00:00:00Z

    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 ...

  • News

    Simpson tower is rejected

    2005-01-28T00:00:00Z

    Ian Simpson’s dramatic proposal for a 51-storey apartment block in Liverpool has been refused planning permission.

  • Review

    Radar

    2005-01-28T00:00:00Z

    Graeme Russell

  • Opinion

    In perspective

    2005-01-28T00:00:00Z

    I get nervous when “gender equality” is equated with making accommodations for women’s supposed desire for a life/work balance.

  • Opinion

    We need women

    2005-01-28T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • Richard Rogers Partnership’s 50sq cm model of Leadenhall was made using laser cutting and illustrates the technique of stacking perspex to form buildings.
    Technical

    Super models

    2005-01-28T00:00:00Z

    Rapid prototyping means sophisticated models at the touch of a button

  • Opinion

    Modern manners

    2005-01-28T00:00:00Z

    Wells Coates’s Isokon may deserve a small place in history, but Embassy Court certainly does not (Works January 21) .

  • News

    Original Tate team loses out

    2005-01-28T00:00:00Z

    Jamie Fobert beats Evans & Shalev

  • News

    Inskip & Jenkins win Turkish museum job

    2005-01-28T00:00:00Z

    Peter Inskip & Peter Jenkins has beaten competition from Cesar Pelli to design a museum for a historical site in western Turkey.

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2005-01-28T00:00:00Z

    This year all the big clients are more interested in getting into the Guinness Book of Records than winning the Stirling

  • The Pan Am Building — denounced as aesthetically banal and socially damaging.
    Review

    Hubris over Manhattan

    2005-01-28T00:00:00Z

    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

  • Opinion

    Is high-rise really such a tall order?

    2005-01-28T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Fosters up the Strand

    2005-01-28T00:00:00Z

    Foster & Partners has won planning permission for its first luxury hotel in London.

  • A home on the fast track
    News

    Housing’s quick fix

    2005-01-28T00:00:00Z

    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

  • View from Euston Road. The end elevation is generated by truncating the extruded cross-section.
    Building Study

    Houston in Euston

    2005-01-28T00:00:00Z

    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

  • Technical

    I wish Id done that...architectural model

    2005-01-28T00:00:00Z

    Jonathan Sergison on Herzog & de Meuron’s model of apartments in Basel

  • News

    Wow factor will do a lot of damage, warns US urbanist

    2005-01-28T00:00:00Z

    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.