All Building Design articles in 3 September 2004
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Technical
Techbrief
Chill outSeveral hundred fires every year are caused by hot works, the process of using either a hot air gun, naked flame or a bitumen boiler to fuse water-proofing membranes together in roof construction. In an effort to address this dangerous procedure and reduce the number of fires, Liquid Plastics ...
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News
Spiral of steel
Designer and sculptor Gerry Judah has unveiled images of a new £100,000 bridge on the banks of the river Thames at the Royal Arsenal development in Woolwich. The curving steel bridge allows a riverside path to continue over a large flood wall. The bridge also includes a small viewing platform ...
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Opinion
Wren swan song
A trawl through BD’s archive on Christopher Wren unearthed publicity material for a short-lived musical entitled Wren.The musical, which ran at The Mayfair Theatre in 1978, was apparently based on “the events during his 91-year life”. But it gets stranger. The actor playing Wren, Steven Grives, went on to work ...
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Technical
Technicalities: The sheltering
Engineers have always had to adapt to the contemporary architectural zeitgeist. A few contribute to the direction things take while most receive and respond to the market forces. The way I think about roofs has changed. I’m unsure if this is insight or if the issues have altered.I used to ...
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Opinion
Sustainable sense
You are to be complemented on publishing Chris Morton’s letter (August 27). The original concept of sustainability emphasised social needs as well as economic and environmental needs. If we were to take the issue as seriously as it deserves, we should question the need for building — or the need ...
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Opinion
X-rated seduction
RIBA president George Ferguson has taken advantage of the summer season lull in news and achieved a staggering amount of coverage for his Grade X idea. Ferguson’s scheme to get rid of eyesore buildings has received coverage in the Financial Times, the Guardian and the International Herald Tribune. This week ...
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News
Solutions: Roofing
Friars Halt Studio, Battle, SussexTransformation of Camden's RoundhouseInglis Badrashis Sussex garden studio
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News
On the road to Wembley
BD can exclusively reveal the first image of a pedestrian footbridge designed by Marks Barfield Architects to link London’s new Wembley Stadium to the nearby underground station. The bridge won detailed planning permission last week along with outline planning permission for an 83,000sq m mixed-use development and new square around ...
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Opinion
Wheres the proof?
In Tonkin Liu’s drawings of the Old Street scheme (News August 6), there is scant evidence that any of the following issues were either considered by the architect or required by the Architecture Foundation jury: analysis of the social dynamic of the area; demography of local users; analysis of the ...
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News
Power play
The RIBA is hosting an evening seminar on the planning implications of the Urban Development Corporation for London’s Thames Gateway. The event, on September 8, includes speakers Eric Sorensen, former chief executive of the LDDC, and Kevin Whittle, Thames Gateway strategic executive at the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. ...
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Technical
Pitch perfect
Katherine Pechey looks at the unusual roof structure of Inglis Badrashi’s Sussex garden studio
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News
People
Arup supremo Cecil Balmond (left) has been appointed professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Balmond has accepted the Paul Philippe Cret chair, named after the famous French architect of the Pan American Union Building in Washington DC. Previous holders of the chair include Louis Kahn, Daniel Libeskind and ...
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News
Northern passion
With £1bn of work, Ian Simpson tells Robert Booth how he is thrilled to be on the up, yet stalked by the fear of failure
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Features
Michael Manser
BooksI read a lot and in recent months biographies of notables in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Four biographies of Wren, the best His Invention So Fertile by Adrian Tinniswood ; two of Pepys; also of John Adams and Benjamin Franklin, luminaries of the American bid for independence. Both ...
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News
Spotcheck: London
Come on inMore than 500 buildings across the capital will open their doors to the public next month as part of London Open House. Partly funded by RIBA London, the event takes place on September 18 and 19 and this year will include access to Foster & Partners’ Swiss Re. ...
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Opinion
Ian Martin
The developers want me to ‘dequalitise’ my housing scheme, so as not to ‘inflexibilise’ design standards
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News
Hit and miss
Glasgow Tower, the revolving viewing tower at the Glasgow Science Centre, reopened last week after three years of work to fix problems with the revolving mechanism. The 127m structure closed when a bearing cracked soon after opening.Tim Ronalds Architects’ new building at the Hackney Empire will be opened by entrepreneur ...
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News
Nimby threat to Poundbury growth
Second phase of Prince Charles’s Dorset development runs into local protest over density and scale