All Building Design articles in 6 August 2004
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Opinion
Spanish snips
And still with hair, there’s strange news from the West Country this week, where a popular Bristol hair salon has renamed itself Gaudi Hair Design, apparently in tribute to the celebrated Catalan architect. A bottle of vintage Head & Shoulders to the first reader to request “a Sagrada Família style”. ...
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NewsShanghai shell shock
Richard Rogers Partnership’s design for a £700 million expansion of Shanghai airport has been edged out by a competing US design.The practice was told that its striking design, including a shell-like undulating roof for the airport extension, had lost out to one by US firm Yang Molen.The designers worked on ...
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Building StudyToying with Uncle Sam
Rem Koolhaas designs a public library in Seattle and an exclusive Prada shop in Beverly Hills. Both play with ideas of public space, he says. Can he be serious? Kester Rattenbury finds out
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Opinion
Royal warrant
Oh dear. John Prescott and the Prince of Wales have fallen out. Just months after they shared a platform at a Prince’s Foundation event and had people rolling in the aisles with their witty repartee, Poundbury has come between them.The foundation has submitted proposals for new homes at the Dorset ...
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Technical
Technicalities: Poison privet
The obsession with risk avoidance has now spread to the subject of plant selection. No longer are we safe to specify a plant that is perceived to be a potential health risk, even if the plant is so common to be found in virtually every public garden. On ...
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News
Power play
The Scottish Executive has announced a £51 million boost for sporting facilities, raising hopes of a new range of world-class venues. Edinburgh and Glasgow each received £17 million. The government has launched a consultation paper on proposals to tackle the risk to Britain’s built environment from flooding over the next ...
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NewsSensory perception
Gordon Murray & Alan Dunlop has unveiled concept images of its new school in Glasgow for the sensory impaired. The £500,000 Dumbreck School has been designed so that pupils can wander in safety, increasing their sense of independence without putting them at risk. The scheme was designed in conjunction with ...
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NewsPeople
Terry Farrell & Partners has been appointed by Camden council to carry out an assessment on the possibility of a major new public square outside King’s Cross station.George Cox, outgoing director-general at the Institute of Directors, is to be the new director of the Design Council. He will start in ...
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News
Ungreen Olympics
Greenpeace has criticised the Olympic Village in Athens for ignoring environmental targets.
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NewsSpotcheck: North-east
Library shortlistBuilding Design Partnership, FaulknerBrown and a third, unnamed, practice are in the running for the £27 million PFI contract to demolish and replace Basil Spence’s Central Library in Newcastle. The flagship new library will replace Spence’s 1960s creation, which features a concrete fin facade similar to his library in ...
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FeaturesNathaniel Kahn
BooksI’ve read so little recently because making a film has been such an overwhelming undertaking and getting into another narrative is distracting. Now I am reading Life of Pi and I am thoroughly enjoying it. During research for the film, I read a lot on Lou (Kahn), but a really ...
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Opinion
Joined-up thinking
George Ferguson (Soapbox July 23) writes a great deal of sense. As he says, the professions are far too disjointed and protective of their own roles to make places that inspire, and the institutes’ hands are likely to be forced by the government if they do not act. There is ...
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Opinion
Ian Martin
Say what you like about Trousers, his enthusiasm is infectious. I find myself beaming at the drinks waiter
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NewsHit and miss
Foster & Partners’ Millau viaduct (above) in southern France reached a major milestone this week when the two ends of the 225m-tall bridge, across a 2.5km-wide gorge, met in the middle.Berlin’s Olympic Stadium, which hosted Hitler’s infamous 1936 games, has reopened with a striking new roof by architect Volkwin Marg. ...
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TechnicalStairway to heaven
Sweeping new steps give Liverpool’s Metropolitan Cathedral its long-awaited public space and the entrance architect Frederick Gibberd always intended.
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Opinion
Hair-brained?
Daniel Libeskind seems to have taken up residence in the Concrete Boots column of late, though it’s hardly our fault he is so prolifically humorous. The architect has hired architect Alexander Gorlin to design his new pad in New York, just a few blocks from Ground Zero. Asked why he ...
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Opinion
Home guard
An American website is keeping a running tally of how much the war in Iraq is costing US citizens in real terms. One novel way of calculating the cost of the war is the number of homes that could have been built for the same money. The number rises minute ...
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TechnicalGreen-fingered guardians
Landscape architect BBUK’s partners explain how they are nurturing the broader area beyond the architects’ realm.
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News
Scottish plans set to go online
The Scottish Executive has rejected claims that publishing planning applications online could encourage copyright theft and burglary.
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NewsHigh hopes for Geordie tower
Ian Simpson is bidding to add Newcastle upon Tyne to the growing list of English cities where he is building residential skyscrapers.The Manchester-based architect is in pre-planning talks with the city council to build a 50-storey tower as part of a mixed development on former brewery land next to Newcastle ...