All Building Design articles in 28 May 2004
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Technical
Techbrief
Renewable show The Building Research Establishment and the Energy Saving Trust are organising resource04, a four-day exhibition and conference on low-carbon and renewable energy technologies for buildings at the BRE headquarters near Watford on June 7-10. Call 01923 664531 or visit www.resource04.comPipes of peace In response to the ...
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NewsYeang takes on UK
Superstar architect Ken Yeang has teamed up with a multi-disciplinary British practice to spearhead his expansion in Europe and specifically the UK.
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NewsRaising the roof
An elegant £150 million retail scheme in Leeds by Scottish Parliament architect EMBT and British practice Stanley Bragg Partnership has received strong backing from the city council.
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Opinion
Viva Peabody
The spectacle of second-rate surveyors, project managers, housing managers and journalists chortling over the apparent misfortunes of the Peabody Trust (News May 14) is predictable, but depressing. Which other housing provider has consistently tried to promote architectural quality, a mix of uses, high urban design standards, buildability, sustainability and innovation? ...
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Opinion
Page turner
Rock legend and former Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page is a surprise architecture fan. Page has contributed to a book about his favourite architect, William Burges. Page is such a fan that in 1972 he bought Burges’s London residence, The Tower House. The home features in the new book by ...
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Opinion
Staying silent is not an option
Architects, like the 50 diplomats in the UK and US, must stand up as a profession and take on the politicians, who, as usual, are not able to admit their policies have failed, and thereby change them. If not we will all be complicit with an amoral policy that, in ...
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Opinion
Never say never
It was with some shock that we saw that our practice “vowed never to work in the UK” (News May 14). We are a young practice that has succeeded mainly in open competition and we have not seen an open architectural competition in the UK. We would love to have ...
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Opinion
Moving on up?
The mayoral race provided a lot of humour this week. Tory candidate Steven Norris seems to get more eccentric every day. First he misheard the name of this magazine as VD and expected to be quizzed about sexual health, then he proceeded to slate Swiss Re only to be reminded ...
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Opinion
Minimising risk
Your report about the Packington Square estate (News April 29) highlighted exactly why we have been working with residents to find a way forward. Two issues are at stake: ensuring the estate meets building standards and improving residents’ quality of life.Because Packington was not strengthened in the early 1970s to ...
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Features
Making a name for yourself
How important is branding to architects? We are told it is everything these days, and that the really important thing is to have a distinctive, easy-to-remember, impossible-to-misspell name such as Coke or Ka, or FCUK. Perhaps that's why architects call themselves things like Squid or Proton or Studio X. Imagery ...
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Opinion
Judge for yourself
Two of the most successful housing competitions of recent years were not RIBA competitions. They were the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s Caspar competitions in Birmingham and Leeds. They produced innovative designs by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris and Levitt Bernstein but at a predetermined budget with design-and-build-type submissions. An experienced architectural assessor, ...
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Opinion
Ian Martin
Practitioners who continue to 'sport' bow ties and cravats put other team members at risk
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NewsHigh stakes at Holyrood
As Scotland's Holyrood Parliament inches towards completion, its complex nature continues to emerge. Peter Wilson considers how the building's exterior will relate to its newly unveiled internal space
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Opinion
Groomed for role
Meanwhile, Lib Dem candidate Simon Hughes couldn’t come to the phone at first because he was having his hair cut. But once he was finished, Hughes dutifully fulfilled his role as a candidate by slagging off incumbent Ken Livingstone. Still, at least he will look dapper on the campaign trail.
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NewsA touch of glass
Terry Farrell’s new £244 million building for the Home Office on Marsham Street in London is nearing completion. The coloured glass canopy was designed in collaboration with Turner Prize nominee Liam Gillick to animate the street frontage without the security risk of shops and cafes in the complex. The scheme ...