All Building Design articles in 26 November 2004

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  • Technical

    Trouble at the top

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Roofs are the site of many a battle between aspiration and the cold reality of a cost plan. There is no designer whose aspirations have not at some point fallen prey to the machinations of the bean counters.

  • Opinion

    Suzi Towel

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Come on, architects — let’s see more of you in Fatbusters T-shirts, fighting the flab for a healthier Culture

  • Technical

    Pyramid scheme

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    We unfold the mystery of Egypt’s new Grand Museum proposal by Heneghan Peng

  • News

    Rising out of the waves

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    A 40-storey residential tower on Brighton seafront, designed by Wilkinson Eyre, will be a beacon-like landmark for the east of the city, the architect claims.

  • News

    Museum revamp

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Plans for a £70 million revamp of Edinburgh’s Royal Museum by Glasgow-based Gareth Hoskins Architects and New York-based exhibition designer Ralph Appelbaum have been unveiled.The fabric of the 1866 building will be upgraded, access and movement throughout the museum will be improved. New spaces, including a multimedia performance and learning ...

  • The model of the completed National Assembly for Wales on Cardiff Bay
    Technical

    Waves and means

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    A dramatic roof gives the Wales Assembly presence among its neighbours, writes Pamela Buxton

  • Review

    Radar: Matthew Priestman

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Books I’m reading After the Empire:The Breakdown of the American Order by Emmanuel Todd and The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad by Fareed Zakaria. I find fiction problematic, but have read Under the Skin by Michel Faber, a mix of horror and poetry. I’ve got teenagers, ...

  • News

    Lessons in lucre

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Any architect can rake in the cash, says management guru Robert White. We brought six architects to talk to him about their finances

  • News

    Learning pod

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    KSS Design Group has completed its campus for South East Essex College of Arts. The £52 million building, in Southend-on-Sea, replaces two former campus sites and features an eight-storey atrium space clad in ETFE cushions. The atrium houses a distinctive blood-red, 250-seat space, known as The Pod, which is completely ...

  • Opinion

    Inspired teaching

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    I was interested to see your piece on art teacher Robin Noscoe’s design for a cricket pavilion/ open-air theatre being listed (Concrete Boots November 12). I was one of the “band of merry pupils” who assisted in its construction, at Canford School in Dorset, in the mid-sixties.

  • Opinion

    Held to ransom

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Re “Crackdown on Foreign architects” (News November 5), I would not have expected this from a branch of the UK government that effectively has monopoly control over the profession.

  • News

    Planning system at stake, Greenside inquiry warned

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    The public inquiry into the demolition of the celebrated modernist home Greenside began this week with English Heritage claiming the integrity of the entire planning system was at stake.

  • Opinion

    Freedom suit split

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Concerning the lawsuit filed by a Yale architecture student (News November 12), who claims his design was used as the basis for the design of the Freedom Towers, it separates Daniel Libeskind’s contributions (the height, the shape of the spire to echo the the Statue of Liberty’s torch) from David ...

  • News

    Eco rating under fire

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Green home standard ‘inadequate’

  • Opinion

    Lie detector

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    In your article (News November 19) concerning Arb’s accusation that BT is wrongly listing individuals as architects, you quote a BT spokesman as saying that “it is up to the architects not to lie to us”. He is describing the people concerned as architects, which if they are lying they ...

  • Opinion

    Yearning for the old school days

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Zoë Blackler’s editorial (November 19) misses the point, which is that architectural education, as we have known it since the 1958 Oxford Conference, and the universities’ research assessment exercise are incompatible.

  • Opinion

    Crate waste

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    I was discouraged to find another potential worry for those who care about timber.

  • News

    Farrell exits continue

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Practice refuses to deny departure of managing partner Toby Bridge

  • News

    Prince Charles slams ‘wow factor’

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Prince of Wales locks horns with deputy prime minister over ‘adolescent obsession with being modern’

  • Features

    The Charettes

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    By Robert Thompson