All Building Design articles in 9 July 2004
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News
Prefab security slammed
A flagship pre-fab housing project praised by the government this week as one of the UK's best public buildings is not safe for the key workers it is meant to house, according to tenants and the Metropolitan Police.
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Opinion
Poll positives
Robert Adam chastises Chetwood Associates for misinterpreting the results of the Mori poll we commissioned on attitudes to modern architecture (Letters July 2). He may be right — many architects do produce designs the public does not like, and certain architects are doubtless arrogant.But this is not the whole story. ...
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TechnicalWith paint technology, the walls can talk|
Microscopic paint analysis is a process whereby a section of paintwork is analysed under a microscope and photographed to determine the build up of layers. The resulting image is sufficiently detailed to enable the individual pigments of colour to be identified within each paint layer and there-fore allows a ...
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Opinion
My PCC ordeal
I would like to comment on your coverage of my hearing before the Arb (News July 2). The main charges against me were that I failed to give clear written advice in relation to cost plans and that I failed to draw to attention to the cost of proposed alterations.My ...
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NewsSpotcheck: The North-west
Europe's largest retail scheme began construction in Liverpool this week. The £800 million, 17ha Paradise Street development will include three department stores, two hotels, restaurants, housing, offices, recording studios, a meeting hall, gallery, bus station and car park. Architects working on the scheme include Cesar Pelli, Dixon Jones, CZWG, Wilkinson ...
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News
Pringle is next RIBA president
Jack Pringle has won the race to be the next president of the RIBA. His immediate pledge was to start his fight to persuade the government to improve the PFI process.
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News
Spotlisting scuppers Murphy
Richard Murphy has criticised Historic Scotland after it effectively blocked his designs for private houses in Edinburgh to save what he called a "backward-looking" 1960s home.
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News
Marco speaks out over split
Marco Goldschmied hinted this week that his surprise departure from the Richard Rogers Partnership was just the first of more changes at the famous practice.
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NewsLubetkin pool was penguin turn-off
Modernist architecture is not good for your love life. Just ask the penguins at London Zoo.
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Opinion
To sirs, with love
Q: Who does rebel Arb member Ian Salisbury consult on matters of etiquette?A: Lesbian greengrocers in Oxford.An item, "Minorities", on his website tells of his struggle to find the correct greeting for a letter to two female solicitors. "Dear Sirs", the convention, felt inappropriate, but so did "Dear Ladies", "Mesdames" ...
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Opinion
See you later...
Will no animals appreciate London Zoo’s famous Lubetkin pool? First the penguins hop it to another pool and find love, and now it’s the Chinese alligators. The pool was specially converted for the reptiles with a consignment of mud and floating plants to recreate their natural habitat. But sadly ...
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News
Rick Mathers Italian job
Rick Mather Architects has been commissioned to design space to accommodate a famous Turin art collection.
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Opinion
Weighty issues
Stanton Williams’ press office clearly has rather too much time on its hands. The press release for the practice’s recently completed Tower Hill Square project offers some “interesting facts and figures”. Among these Boots spotted: “The weight of a typical granite paving slab is 172kg, the same weight as two ...
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Opinion
Saving the world is mission impossible
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to save the world — or at least stamp out crime, rehabilitate victims of torture and stop terrorism. Those are just three of the tasks demanded of architects featured in BD in the last fortnight. Take other weeks and you can ...
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Opinion
Holyrood refund?
Speaking as a non-architect who has come across a copy of your article on the Scottish Parliament (“Design team delays cost Holyrood £166m”), perhaps the design team would be magnanimous in reimbursing the public for the cost of their failings by reducing their fees accordingly?
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