All Building Design articles in 11 June 2004 – Page 3

  • Building Study

    First Look: Triangular education in West Bromwich

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Edward Cullinan Architects has revealed eye-catching designs for a new college of further education in West Bromwich town centre.

  • Opinion

    Burges bonus

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Concrete Boots is a little harsh in chiding Jimmy Page for not letting the public into William Burges’s Tower House (May 28).Notwithstanding the fact that it is a private residence, Leighton House Museum (located nearby) came up with the brilliant idea of arranging guided tours of the house as part ...

  • News

    Concrete castle Restoration bid

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    The Save Trust, the preservation arm of Save Britain’s Heritage, has purchased an unusual concrete castle built in the 1850s in Bridgwater, Somerset, and plans to restore it to its former glory.

  • Opinion

    We deserve better

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    We question how you justify devoting four full pages to a housing development that is not only ordinary, but also downright ugly and uninspiring (Works June 4). We suppose this must be because the project architect is renowned and occasionally writes a column in BD. Of course, there may have ...

  • Features

    Masterplanners need to banish the blobs

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    A successful masterplan should be an essay in large-scale architectural composition, but too often they end up merely a collection of arrows and coloured blobs. As we experienced with a masterplanning project in Holland, this can be the fault of the clients and planners as much as the architects.

  • Building Study

    Arts and craftsmanship

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Edward Jones visits museum renovations in London and Cambridge

  • News

    Architects used as 'cash cows'

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Planning fees siphoned off to avoid council tax rises

  • Building Study

    Angell Town wins its wings

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Residents of a Brixton sink estate campaigned to turn its fate around. Zoë Blackler reports on how architect Mode 1 helped its rejuvenation by reworking two of its blocks.

  • News

    Alsop faces Bradford opposition

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Cinema protest forces rethink

  • News

    Cabe boss could quit after audit

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Stuart Lipton is expected to stand down as chairman of the Commission for Architecture & the Built Environment after independent auditors report on potential conflicts of interest at Cabe next week.

  • Technical

    In detail 09: Y’s, Tokyo

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    The centrepiece of the new flagship Y’s store in Tokyo is a series of four sculptural display units. Three of the four units conceal 980 x 980mm concrete columns.