All Building Design articles in 30 July 2004
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Opinion
Water torture
The reaction to the latest big publicly funded architectural project to go wrong is more sighs of resignation than public outcry. After the Millennium Dome and the Millennium Bridge before it, the Princess Diana Memorial Fountain, designed by Kathryn Gustafson, looks set for a lengthy closure. The natural spring water ...
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News
Spotcheck: Wales
Welsh PoundburyA Poundbury-style development at Llandarcy in West Glamorgan has moved a step closer. Project partners the Prince’s Foundation, Welsh Development Agency, oil giant BP and Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council have agreed to draw up a shortlist of developer-led teams to come up with plans for 2,500 homes ...
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News
Weather report
Sutherland Hussey Architects, shortlisted for last year’s Stirling Prize is close to completing a new arts installation in Exeter.The £100,000 construction displays weather information from the Met Office through a series of LEDs, using colour coding to show temperature and air pressure.The 40m curved structure will light up a roundabout ...
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Opinion
Rural reality
You refer to “country” as a foreign and different place, not the country as a whole (Focus July 23); but you make no reference to predominantly different rural planning regimes and to changes required of them to achieve “modified urban strategies” — or even of rural strategies to respond to ...
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Technical
Twisting by the pool
Paddington Basin’s new footbridge is a sculptural beauty, says Amanda Birch. Let’s just hope it works
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News
Power play
Health secretary John Reid this week gave the go ahead for £4 billion of investment in 15 privately financed hospital developments. Just over £1 billion goes to the North Mersey Future Healthcare Project, and schemes in Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire get £880 million. Sandwell and West Birmingham Trust gets £591 ...
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News
People
Conservative leader of Surrey County Council Nick Skellett has been re-elected as leader of the South East England Regional Assembly for the third time. Mark Wigley’s role as interim dean of architecture at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation has been made permanent. Wigley took over last ...
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News
Psalm to the palm
The icon may be unfashionable in the UK this summer, but it still has life in Tenerife, where Foreign Office Architects has unveiled designs for a £38 million office building for the Canary Island government in Santa Cruz. The project includes office space, cultural attractions and underground parking. The circular ...
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Opinion
Mandy money
Still at the RFH, CEO Michael Lynch wasn’t pulling any punches over Peter Mandelson’s criticism of the renovation scheme. Referring to the fact that Mandelson launched the Millennium Dome project at the RFH, Lynch said: “I would have liked some of the Dome money.”Wouldn’t we all.
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Opinion
Madcap madness
Buildings in the shape of toasters and multi-coloured pods on wonky sticks. How original.In this case it is the redevelopment of Middlesbrough waterfront, the latest masterplan by Alsop Architects. Indistinguishable from any of its other recent masterplans, it clearly demonstrates no reference to context or understanding of deep-rooted ...
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Opinion
Letting off steam
Alsop himself is angry about the evaporation of his Cloud, and regeneration company Liverpool Vision got some of his invective in Louis’s favourite paper on Saturday.In an interview, curiously badged “exclusive” given he poured out his heart in BD the day before, Alsop fumed: “I only had a meeting with ...
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Features
John Sampson
University of SheffieldAge 24Nationality BritishProfile The political side of architecture — empowerment, power and ecological issues — is the focus for John Sampson’s interests. In 10 years’ time, he imagines he’ll be working on a multidisciplinary team in a politically active practice, perhaps even his own. During his year out, ...
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News
Public inconvenience
Vigilante consumers will target public buildings in a one-night blitz, testing how they have been adapted for disabled access. But architects and building owners still aren’t doing enough.
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Opinion
Ian Martin
Things are back to normal. Well before lunch, this week’s proposed world’s tallest building is announced
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Opinion
Human sacrifice
Your reported demise of the icon (News July 23) may not be bad news in all quarters.When RIBA president George Ferguson addressed the Traditional Architects’ Group at the RIBA in February he distinguished between modern and traditional building style and between modern and traditional urbanism. Whereas he said he would ...
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Features
Simon Hudspith
BooksI’m a reluctant reader, having always found it quite difficult, but Haruki Murakami woke me up with The Elephant Vanishes, a surreal world in the everyday and a psychological stalking that ambushes the reader. I found Longitude by Dava Sobel a complete inspiration — the determination in the face of ...
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Features
John Holden
Kent Institute of Art & Design, CanterburyAge 26Nationality IrishProfile Holden is from Kilkenny and was attracted to the Canterbury school by its strong art component. “The way I design is down to my Canterbury training,” he says. “I see architecture as an art. First I table an artistic sketch, then ...
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News
Hit and miss
David Adjaye’s has found a local partner in Anderson Mason Dale Architects for his Museum of Contemporary Art project in Denver. DLA Architects’ £300 million proposal to build a giant indoor ski slope and other leisure facilities at a former cement works near Great Blakenham, Suffolk, has won planning permission. ...
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Opinion
Get off our land
Has it not occurred to anyone that most people in the countryside don’t want modernist buildings? They resist new buildings only because they are invariably of modernist design. It’s probable that most of them have moved to the country to get away from that great modernist urban experiment of ...
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Features
Louise Freeman & Oliver Grimshaw
University of BathFreeman and Grimshaw collaborated on their final project.Louise FreemanAge 25Nationality BritishProfile Colours, materials, textures and the way things fit together is how Louise Freeman describes her key concerns. Since studying at Bath she has become increasingly interested in interiors and the domestic scale. Now she plans to find ...