All Building Design articles in 12 November 2004

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  • Pierre d'Avoine Architects' Invisible House, as interpreted by London Metropolitan University students.
    Review

    Let’s play housey-housey

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Pamela Buxton enjoys a quirky exhibition of housing designs by Pierre d’Avoine Architects

  • Opinion

    Fred Trousers

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Ian Martin is away. Our guest columnist this week is Fred Trousers, president of the Royal Institute for the Protection of British Architects.

  • News

    Open and Shut win for forest house

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    London-based Toh Shimazaki Architects has won planning permission for a 558sq m country house near Dorking, Surrey.

  • Opinion

    Tribal gathering is a formidable force

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    If you join a group called Tribal, you probably want the war drums to beat.

  • News

    London flexes its muscles

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    London’s bid to stage the 2012 Olympic Games flexed its muscles this week as images were released of an 80,000-seat stadium featuring roof elements based on the bulging biceps of an athlete.

  • The Carlisle Lane housing project is located in the centre of this photo on a tight site in London's Waterloo and is marked out by its timber pitched roof.
    Technical

    Four flats in a flash

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Pringle Richards Sharratt proves small projects can benefit from prefab.

  • Review

    Plastic fantastic

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    “At £75 we think it’s a bargain,” says Lucas Dietrich, commissioning editor of the zanily packaged “exploded monograph” on Zaha Hadid, published next week.

  • A window section from Gropius's 1912 Fagus factory hangs on the left wall of the new architecture gallery, designed by Gareth Hoskins Architects.
    Building Study

    Something for everyone

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Anonymous architects rub shoulders with historic heavyweights in the UK’s first permanent architecture gallery, at the V&A. But does it work?

  • News

    Green office increases energy use

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    A flagship environmentally friendly council building designed to be an exemplar of the latest in sustainable design consumes more energy than the buildings it replaced.

  • News

    Fraser puzzled at snatched Edinburgh job

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Scottish architect Malcolm Fraser has been left “puzzled” after his masterplan for the troubled Princes Street in Edinburgh was taken forward by Broadway Malyan rather than his own practice.

  • News

    Driving out the old

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Glasgow-based practice MCM Architects has completed this £3 million refurbishment of a 1960s multi-storey car park in Glasgow city centre.

  • Technical

    Prefab dreams

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Over the past five years, we have found much of our housing work has been motivated by the promise of speed, exactitude, economy and perhaps even the hint of perfection — in short, the path of prefabrication.

  • Building Study

    Quick on the draw

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    The entrance to the V&A architecture gallery is guarded by a massive isometric projection of the dome of St Paul’s Cathedral (pictured). The drawing, which took five years to complete during the 1920s, illustrates the three themes explored through the gallery — the art of architecture, the function ...

  • News

    Kings Dock in doubt

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    The Kings Dock scheme in Liverpool is under threat after local councillors strongly criticised the project.

  • Adam Caruso (left) and Peter St John in the plaster cast court at the V&A, designed by Museum of Childhood architect JW WIld.
    Building Study

    Getting in the decorators

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Caruso St John’s proposal of lace motifs on a new Nottingham project upset some readers. We ask Peter St John to explain why his practice is breaking a final taboo and embracing decoration

  • David West (left) and Christoph Egret say they don't want to be the sort of architects who work 12 hours a day always stuck to the drawing board.
    News

    Meet the odd couple

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Studio Egret West has arisen from the Will Alsop saga, but will it have its own story to tell?

  • News

    Whitbybird in newest Clissold pool dispute

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    The owner of the troubled Clissold Leisure Centre, which has been closed for nearly a year, has launched a fresh legal claim against the building’s engineer for “mechanical, structural and engineering defects”, it emerged this week.

  • News

    Reviving the classics

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Traditional architects are making a bid to reclaim the skyscraper after 50 years of modernist dominance.

  • Features

    The Charettes

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    By Robert Thompson

  • News

    Cabe urges rethink on Royal London

    2004-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Cabe has said it wants further redesigns of HOK’s proposed Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel before giving its support to the scheme.