All Building Design articles in 30 April 2004
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Opinion
Uphold the title
BD might have a new format, and very good it is. But the old ideas continue: if Guy Pound said he was an architect, and the Serious Fraud Office agreed, then he must be one, even though he was not listed with Arb. If the professional press can’t be discriminating ...
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TechnicalTechbrief
The Green Bottle Unit, a Hackney-based 100% recycled glass outfit has scaled up. It can now produce large sheets of recycled glass suitable for floors, walls, external cladding and tabletops (shown left)."We have just cracked this process and I believe we are the only glass recycling company in the ...
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Opinion
Unhelpful tactics
The group I chair will, no doubt, receive, from Arb board members who have made anonymous comments to BD (News April 23), the courtesy of a private reply to a private letter. What they (and your readers, since BD omitted it from the story) may not have known is that ...
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News
Solutions: Surfaces
Floors walls and ceilings by Niall McLaughlin, James Soane and 6A Architects
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Opinion
A rising trend
Jean Nouvel was in London this week to hook up with Foster on their collaboration in the capital and learnt the nickname for the Swiss Re, which translates as “le cornichon erotique”. “I’ve got one of those,” he exclaimed excitedly, referring, of course, to his own torpedo-shaped tower in Barcelona.
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Opinion
Playing the system
I knew the press would find it difficult to report accurately on the exit of AA chairman Mohsen Mostafavi, but Will Hurst’s report is misleading. The article makes it look as if he is going because he is not wanted by the school or because he has not done a ...
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Opinion
Smoked pickle
In a moment that was more Manhattan than London, Swiss Re security men pounced on our venerable correspondent Christopher Woodward, when, after three hours in the tower, he lit up a well-deserved cigarette on the building’s forecourt. The signs may not be up yet, they explained, but smoking was strictly ...
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Opinion
Peter Rees
The opening of the Swiss Re tower this week confirms the City's shift from boring post-war office blocks to bold new design. The Corporation of London's chief planner is excited
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Technical
Technicalities: Poured out
Just what is it that makes today's poured floors so different, so appealing? Everybody's doing it from the year-out student to Rem. It is the latest fashion and even features on the make-over TV shows. Just add water, mix and pour; leave for 24 hours, and there you have it ...
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News
Rogers raves over Square Mile skyline
Architects are gracing the City of London's skyline with its most exciting architectural landmarks in nearly 300 years, Richard Rogers said last week.
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NewsSpotcheck: West Midlands
With tourists continuing to beat a path to the door of Future Systems' Selfridges in Birmingham city centre, the Birmingham Alliance of developers, including Hammerson and Land Securities, is rethinking its regeneration scheme next door. Outline permission exists for a retail-led scheme by Leslie Jones Architects on a 92,000sq m ...
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Opinion
Men suffer, too
Having read “Fear and loathing in the boy zone” (In Practice April 23), I feel moved to write to reassure Sarah Wigglesworth that the very same problems she has experienced working as an architect on site, in terms of bullying, intimidation, criticism of our work, refusal to take instructions, procrastination, ...
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NewsStation makes waves
Atkins has revealed the shape of things to come at Wolverhampton train station, with designs for a £12 million replacement for the 1960s structure.
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NewsRuins line up in TV's second pity parade
A 14th century castle, a Second World War radar installation and a 15th century school in Birmingham are among the competitors in the new series of BBC2's hit show Restoration.
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Review
Trick of the light
Luis Barragan’s El Bebedero Fountain, Las Arboledas, Mexico City, 1960s, photographed by Armando Salas Portugal, one of Mexico’s most sensitive portrayers of architecture and landscape. Barragan used photography not just as images for publication but as part of his creative process, collaborating with Salas Portugal from 1944 to 1988. The ...
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Opinion
Lifting the lid
I refer to the article concerning the Guy Pound court case (News April 23). I acted as expert witness, and the points raised fail to even scratch the surface of what proved to be an extremely complicated and protracted case lasting more than a year in court. The case raised ...