All Building Design articles in 8 October 2004
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Building StudyTaming the zoo
Unexciting, say the dons, but two calm buildings by Allies & Morrison restore sanity to Cambridge.
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Opinion
Political vibes
You’ve heard the critics’ verdicts about Holyrood, but what you really want to know is what the vibe is like. The feng shui vibe, that is.The Scotsman sent a geomancer into the new building to find out. Delivering his verdict, Chi Wing, founder of the Feng Shui Research Centre, said: ...
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News
Power play
- The Conservatives’ environment and transport shadow Tim Yeo told this week’s Tory party conference that, if elected, a Conservative government would develop brownfield land around 20 large train stations across the UK to fund improvements to the stations themselves. - Cabe has pledged £150,000 in new funding to make ...
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NewsPeople
- Peter Watson, former head of corporate and consumer services at Luton Borough Council, has been appointed director-general of operations at the East of England Development Agency. Watson was instrumental in the formation of the PPP deal for the management of London Luton Airport.- US architect E Fay Jones (pictured), ...
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NewsSpotcheck: The North-west
- Morecambe advised BDP has unveiled its draft masterplan for the regeneration of the west end of Morecambe in Lancashire. It identifies areas for public and private investment to regenerate the seaside town over the next five years, including proposals for new public open space, housing refurbishment and demolition ...
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Opinion
Memorial misery
In your editorial on the Holyrood competition (September 17), you quote Lord Fraser, who investigated and reported on the numerous problems surrounding this project, in one of his conclusions “that all but one of the competing architects blithely ignored both the brief and the budget”. Something similar happened to the ...
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Opinion
Making no sense
Your front page (News October 1) tells us that 85% of respondents to RIBA’s survey wanted to retain protection of title and not abolish Arb; 70% said the RIBA should control entry to the profession; and 80% that the RIBA alone should control the profession’s knowledge base, which, presumably includes ...
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Opinion
Russian kickstart for the Kyoto revolution
Climate campaigners were delighted at last week’s news that Russia will ratify the Kyoto protocol on climate change. This is a major step forward as it will bring the international agreement into force. It will also further shame the US administration, which refuses to sign up to Kyoto or accept ...
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Opinion
Ian Martin
I tell her that unless she’s cycled here all the way from the town hall she has no moral authority whatsoever
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News
Hit and miss
- World Trade Centre leaseholder Larry Silverstein has agreed to pay Ground Zero architect Daniel Libeskind $370,000 for his design work on the Freedom Tower in a legal settlement announced this week. The payment settles a lawsuit filed by Libeskind in July claiming he was owed more than $843,000 for ...
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Opinion
Gaud gaffe
Legendary Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí has finally made it to north London. Former movie special-effects man Chris Ostwald has converted a shopfront in Muswell Hill in the style of the great designer. But the council has asked him to either apply for retrospective planning permission, or tear it down. It ...
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News
Future sees return of icons
Crystal-ball-gazing study predicts 5 million new homes, a London ‘megopolis’ and 24-hour cities in 20 years
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Opinion
Fashion revealed
Wearing something from H&M or Zara to work today? Feeling pretty groovy with change in your pocket for lunch? Not for long. The fashion stakes just got higher with architect Sally Mackereth and Karen Wong, David Adjaye’s right-hand women, modelling a few thousand pounds worth of clothes in the FT’s ...
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Opinion
No diversion from the real issues
In response to your story and leader (BD October 1), we did not release the RIBA Council’s report on Arb until days after we had sent a copy to Arb’s chairman following the council debate, although, in true BD style, you seemed to be well informed.Trade press interest may focus ...
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OpinionStrained design
Your exasperating article, “Well-brewed designs” (News September 24), describing how “22 of the world’s best-known architects” have designed coffee and teapots, demonstrates an almost total ignorance of tea and coffee. Master Li said during a t’ai chi lesson, “straining to look beautiful or original is like having the idea of ...
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Opinion
Starck contrasts
The poor have a new hero in Phillipe Starck, who has rebranded himself the Robin Hood of design. In New York magazine last week, he said in architecture or product design “the goal is the same: how I make life better for my tribe”. So how does he do that? ...