All Building Design articles in 29 October 2004

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  • Wilkinson Eyre's architectural model of the proposed Alpine House at Kew Gardens.
    Technical

    Termite tutors

    2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Insect ingenuity and the power of the earth have inspired low-energy ventilation

  • Technical

    Techbrief

    2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

    A clean read Architect Sue Roaf and environmental experts David Crichton and Fergus Nicol argue in their forthcoming book, Adapting Building and Cities for Climate Change, that many buildings being constructed now are not only unsustainable but are also having a catastrophic effect on the global climate. They add that ...

  • Opinion

    Trouble and strife

    2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

    “It is architects’ wives who suffer the lack of planning” (News Analysis October 22). No doubt this will be a relief to the 4,300 female architects who don’t have one.Duncan Lawrence, Bath

  • Opinion

    Welfare in a state

    2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

    On behalf of the Architects Benevolent Society, I must offer enormous thanks for your article on the plight of many in the profession (News Analysis October 22).

  • Opinion

    Unhelpful sign

    2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

    It struck me the other day that the symbol used to denote “disabled” is in itself rather misleading, in a way that might actually be insidious.

  • V&A renaissance
    News

    V&A renaissance

    2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

  • Opinion

    Modern menace

    2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

    After the many kind remarks I have received, I was disappointed by George Saumarez Smith’s imperceptive and humourless response to my review of the Raymond Erith exhibition.

  • Opinion

    Making something out of nothing

    2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

    I am writing this on Monday evening, having just returned from a visit to my in-laws in Dresden, where they are intimately acquainted with disasters, both natural and man-made.

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

    In the picture of Norman and me experimenting with string, I have been clumsily replaced with Jacques Chirac

  • Technical

    Return of the geek

    2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

    The proposed new Part L (Conser-vation of Fuel and Power) is set for implementation in January 2006.

  • Opinion

    Youve had your fee, now fix it

    2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

    I read with amazement Kathryn Gustafson’s denial that she was in any way to blame for the disaster that is the Diana memorial. Her disingenuous claim — that “the problem was people walking on it. It was never designed for that” — is patently rubbish.

  • Review

    Flights of fancy

    2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Perched on five skyscrapers above Liverpool Street station, this cruciform airport in the sky proposed by Lindy and Lewis in 1945 was just one of a series of post-war unfulfilled visions for a city-centre airport in London.

  • Evolving the Gateway
    News

    Evolving the Gateway

    2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Branson Coates Architecture has unveiled its vision for how new housing in the Thames Gateway could be planned “in a more visionary way”.

  • News

    Design optimism for NHS Estate

    2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Fresh hopes have emerged that the healthcare design functions of the soon-to-be-scrapped NHS Estates will be retained and kept together.

  • Opinion

    Wishful counting?

    2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

    I suspect that the estimate (£50 million) for Zaha Hadid’s magnificent edifice (News October 15) must have been done by the same person who produced the first estimate for the new Scottish Parliament.Robert Rimell, London

  • News

    Dickon Robinson joins loft company

    2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Manhattan Loft Corporation boss Harry Handlesman has hired social-housing guru Dickon Robinson in a bid to reinvigorate the design credentials of his loft and penthouse empire.

  • The colourful facade of Niall McLaughlin Architects' Silvertown social housing scheme.
    News

    Colour takes over Silvertown

    2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Whatever local residents think of two completed social housing schemes at Silvertown, east London, by Niall McLaughlin Architects and Ash Sakula, they certainly cannot deny that they brighten the place up.

  • News

    Out-of-court settlement for Clissold

    2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Council compensated for overruns

  • Opinion

    Clear as mud

    2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

    In “Leading the green pack” (Green paper October 15), you admit that data on the carbon dioxide emissions for the primary production of different materials is less than half the story, but it is an even smaller fraction than this.

  • Features

    The Charettes

    2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Robert Thompson