All Building Design articles in 4 February 2005
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NewsThe Zaha way
Women must stop hiding, take charge and demand more, says Zaha Hadid. Zoë Blackler interviews architecture’s leading lady.
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Opinion
Teaching trade-off
Perhaps the architectural and teaching professions should do a trade-off. At our local primary school of eight teachers, all are female. Teachers do the necessary long hours, the environment could only improve, and our
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News
Power play
John Prescott has hit back at the environmental audit committee, which claimed this week that his plans for housing growth did not take into account environmental costs. Speaking at the Sustainable Communities Summit in Manchester, he said: “That is the kind of nonsense you get from the chair of the ...
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Opinion
Planners could yet be the solution
Here’s a test for the planners. The new national planning policy, unveiled on Tuesday, demands right at the beginning that “design which fails to take the opportunities available for improving the character and quality of an area should not be accepted”.
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Opinion
Perfect professor
The sudden death of Professor Ross Jamieson is a very sad loss. I am indebted to him for teaching me and setting me up in my career. He always had a kind word, patient ear and extensive knowledge. A perfect teacher.
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NewsPeople
Norman Foster (above) has been awarded the inaugural Great Briton award for outstanding achievement in the creative industries. The awards celebrate the international success of British individuals and were established by banking group Morgan Stanley in partnership with the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce, and ...
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Opinion
Wheres the love?
Graham Towers is right to point out that Wells Coates’s Embassy Court is a bad neighbour to Brighton’s Regency architecture (Letters January 28). But it’s there now, it’s listed, and poor old Wells Coates only really did about three buildings, so may be Towers could try to love it a ...
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Technical
The towering legacy of LPS
As researchers test the remaining large panel systems buildings, Sam Webb maintains the only solution is demolition. Amanda Birch reports
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NewsJencks on Johnson
Remembering one of the 20th century’s most provocative architects. Robert Booth speaks to Charles Jencks after the death of Philip Johnson
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Opinion
Ian Martin
Text from R peeps in: ‘Any1 mention Thames G8way yet? NB must put qual design @ LOVE of procURment process’
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NewsHomes of learning
Berman Guedes Stretton has completed a residential block next to the famous 1960s Wolfson College, Oxford, designed by Powell & Moya. The L-shaped, three-storey student residential block includes 19 single rooms and nine flats for couples. The building features exposed concrete columns and granite facing panels to reflect the language ...
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NewsHit and miss
Benson & Forsyth has beaten HBMA, Rick Mather and Stanton Williams to design a £25 million retail and leisure development in Nottingham city centre. A planning application will be made in March, with completion anticipated by the end of 2006.The £30 million transformation of Liverpool’s central library was thrown into ...
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NewsHadid talks tough
Britain’s leading female architect, Zaha Hadid, has added her voice to the clamour of support for the 50/50 Campaign.
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News
Green light for second Poundbury
Prince Charles-backed village scheme in Bradford gets go-ahead
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News
Leisure goldmine
CZWG and Holder Mathias’s £300 million entertainment resort, promising more than 92,900sq m of entertainment facilities and the UK’s largest theatre outside London’s West End, has been submitted for outline planning permission. The YES! project, a 130ha resort near the Rother Valley Country Park in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, is on ...
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Building StudyFirst Look: Frankfurt turns over a new leaf
Designs for an elegant new office block in Frankfurt inspired by the natural world have been revealed by Anglo-German practice Sauerbruch Hutton Architects.
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News
Extreme sports touted for Skelmersdale
A forgotten new town stuck between Liverpool and Manchester will finally find its place on the map as the British home of extreme sports, according to architect Broadway Malyan.
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TechnicalLarge panel systems exposed
Hailed as the solution to the housing crisis in the early sixties, large panel systems fell out of favour after the Ronan Point disaster in 1968. Here, architect and LPS campaigner Sam Webb explains how the blocks were constructed and why they are still a problem
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Opinion
Empathy myth
Malcolm Fraser’s article (News Analysis January 21), though interesting, is flawed. You only have to look at the work of Zaha Hadid, Kathryn Findlay and Amanda Levete to know that the myth of the “empathetic” female architect is just that, a myth. Also, his analysis of Corb’s theory is oversimplistic: ...