All Building Design articles in 7 May 2004

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  • News

    Water world

    2004-05-07T00:00:00Z

    Squire & Partners has been shortlisted for the RIBA Future Homes competition. The practice’s scheme envisages how the Thames Gateway might still be used for new homes even if there is large-scale flooding in the future, as some government research suggests. The floating homes would rise and fall with the ...

  • News

    Spotcheck: Wales

    2004-05-07T00:00:00Z

    A Swansea scheme that will include the tallest residential building in Wales has been worked up by architect practice Latitude. The £53 million mixed-use Ferrara Quay is part of the city's broader waterfront project and will feature a centrepiece 29-storey, 107m-high tower. The proposals, put together by developer Earthquake (UK), ...

  • Opinion

    Sick of saving

    2004-05-07T00:00:00Z

    Janet Street-Porter has got her teeth into building conservation. She let rip in a Sunday newspaper about how the building conservation industry, which nets millions of pounds in fees for architects, makes her “sick”. “If there is one thing that makes me reach for the sickbag it is the British ...

  • News

    Power play

    2004-05-07T00:00:00Z

  • Review

    Plaster scenes

    2004-05-07T00:00:00Z

    Graham Seaton's plaster casts of found objects resemble cityscapes until you look closely

  • News

    People

    2004-05-07T00:00:00Z

    “Robbrecht & Daem’s selection is as interesting as the introduction of Herzog & de Meuron to these islands.”Tony Fretton on the Belgian firm about to make waves in the UK (page 14)

  • News

    Pedal tower

    2004-05-07T00:00:00Z

    Belgian practice Robbrecht & Daem has unveiled new images of its two sculptural viewing towers proposed for a national cycle path in Lincolnshire. The two viewing towers, commissioned by Lincoln City Council with a budget of £200,000, are set for completion in October this year on the 30-mile cycle path ...

  • Building Study

    Stopping for tea in the park

    2004-05-07T00:00:00Z

    Deborah Saunt visits two new park cafes by Hopkins and Cowie

  • Opinion

    One world? No thanks

    2004-05-07T00:00:00Z

    Architecture has reached a new level of political potency in the UK, but it takes a tussle between two foreigners this week to reveal it.

  • Opinion

    We’re motoring

    2004-05-07T00:00:00Z

    And so the baby’s head was wetted. BD’s relaunch party in London on Tuesday saw Davids Chipperfield and Adjaye chatting with RIBA presidents past, present, and perhaps future in the form of Paul Hyett, George Ferguson and Richard Saxon. Bob Allies and Graham Morrison were among those who praised the ...

  • News

    Mersey skyscraper

    2004-05-07T00:00:00Z

    Ian Simpson Architects is to submit a planning application to Liverpool City Council for a 50-storey landmark tower at Brunswick Quay at the entrance to Liverpool Marina. The mixed-use development on the banks of the Mersey will provide 538 apartments in three blocks and commercial uses on the ground floor. ...

  • News

    Major step for Welsh Poundbury

    2004-05-07T00:00:00Z

    Ebbw Vale urban extension project moves to site preparation stage

  • Opinion

    So macho

    2004-05-07T00:00:00Z

    Sarah Wigglesworth’s experience of machismo (In Practice April 23), I am happy to say, is not universal. In 40 years, I have been fortunate enough to meet courtesy in most situations, including on site. As the student working with me keeps pointing out, how other people treat one depends largely ...

  • News

    Scottish PII threat is lifted

    2004-05-07T00:00:00Z

    Scottish architects were celebrating this week after the threat of soaring PII requirements to work on publicly funded projects in the country was lifted.

  • News

    Milton Keynes plans 'terrible'

    2004-05-07T00:00:00Z

    Town's former planner attacks government push for 300,000 homes

  • Features

    Piecing the jigsaw to stand the test of time

    2004-05-07T00:00:00Z

    We are second-generation architects, Stephen Proctor and I, and our fathers often remind us that we are not the first to try to crack the prefab nut. Steel, timber and concrete have all been used by the profession in pursuit of the Holy Grail; inexpensive and quickly built quality ...

  • News

    Oldham plots international revival

    2004-05-07T00:00:00Z

    Netherlands-based practice S333 has revealed ambitious designs to regenerate Oldham in Greater Manchester.

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2004-05-07T00:00:00Z

    From Selfridges to the Smirkin' Gherkin, Charles paved the way for the 'blob standard'

  • News

    Hit and miss

    2004-05-07T00:00:00Z

  • Building Study

    Travels through place and history

    2004-05-07T00:00:00Z

    The selection of Belgian practice Robbrecht & Daem for a British scheme is as exciting as Herzog & de Meuron's arrival here in 1995, writes Tony Fretton.