All Building Design articles in 1 October 2004 – Page 2

  • News

    Go-ahead for controversial HOK hospital

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Second part of HOK Royal London & Barts scheme wins planning

  • News

    Sexism claims go to tribunal

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    An architect is taking University College Northampton to an employment tribunal claiming she was forced to leave because of sexual discrimination, victimisation and bullying.

  • News

    Making tracks in China

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Weston Williamson has been shortlisted with seven other practices for a new train station in Wuhan, China.

  • Features

    The Charettes

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    By Robert Thompson

  • News

    Uproar as Cambridge cuts research courses

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Students at the prestigious Cambridge School of Architecture were in uproar this week after the school suspended two of its three MPhil research courses and scrapped an acclaimed undergraduate teaching system.

  • News

    Cabe slams ‘bulky’ scheme

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Bowman Riley’s Leicester regeneration ‘dominates the area’

  • News

    Government building targets fall short

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    The government has been reprimanded for not doing more to reach its school, hospital and home building targets in a school report style paper published by the Construction Products Association this week.

  • News

    Stair bright

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    The new Breast Care Centre at Barts hospital in east London, designed by Greenhill Jenner Architects, opened this week.

  • Opinion

    Concrete Boots

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    No tears shedEdinburgh-based architect Moray Royles is still waiting for a public inquiry verdict on whether a shed in his garden complies with strict local planning regulations and will be able to remain. But Royles is not bothered by the delay. “The longer the verdict takes the better, because I ...

  • News

    RIBA battles for power

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Architecture’s ruling bodies set to clash as RIBA report calls for restrictions to Arb’s remit

  • News

    Mayor to ref Foster argy-bargy

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    The Mayor of London Ken Livingstone is to appeal to Foster & Partners to end its dispute with a small art gallery situated close to the practice’s London office.

  • News

    Eubank enlists architectural heavyweights to win planning

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Former boxing world champion Chris Eubank has won a two-year planning battle to build 41 flats on the site of his Brighton home after enlisting local practice Lomax Cassidy & Edwards to improve the project’s design.

  • Opinion

    RIBA must kiss and make up with Arb

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    The RIBA’s latest challenge to the Arb marks yet another battle in a futile war.

  • News

    Grimshaw appeals for final push on spa

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Architect breaks silence over dispute delaying Bath project

  • The south elevation is fitted with integral louvres to combat glare, and the way in is clearly signalled by the full-height glazed recess.
    Building Study

    Eire apparent

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Keith Williams Architects has given Athlone a striking new civic centre as part of of an Ireland-wide programme of local government improvement.

  • News

    MSPs apologise for Holyrood fiasco

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Scottish politicians tried to draw a line under the Holyrood debacle last week with presiding officer George Reid apologising for the cost and time overruns on the troubled new building.

  • News

    Rem stripes again

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Rem Koolhaas has designed a new exhibition to celebrate Holland’s presidency of the European Union this year.

  • News

    Gillespie replaces Murray as Edinburgh design adviser

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Architect Neil Gillespie of Edinburgh practice Reiach & Hall has replaced Allan Murray as design adviser to the City of Edinburgh Council.

  • News

    Team appointed to develop 500m Milton Keynes scheme

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Architect Gardner Stewart has been appointed to masterplan the £500 million Oakgrove Millennium Community in Milton Keynes as part of a consortium led by developer Crest Nicholson.

  • The existing Copenhagen wall and handrail in the Royal Festival Hall.
    Technical

    In Detail 24: Royal Festival Hall

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    The Royal Festival Hall is about to undergo a major refurbishment to improve its acoustic performance. Almost all the surfaces are to be altered to decrease their acoustic absorbency and increase the reverberation time.