All Building Design articles in 13 August 2004 – Page 2
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News
Second estate in danger
Islington Council admits risk of building collapse due to a gas explosion is not confined to Packington Estate
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Opinion
Learning curve
Now that the shock has subsided, it is important to assess the implications of the alarming failure rate at Birmingham School of Architecture. The school (and its external examiners) should be commended for having the resolve to fail students who have not achieved the required standards. This is far less ...
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Opinion
Council conquest
Concrete Boots always suspected the planners at Edinburgh City Council were a wild bunch, and now it has been confirmed by Edinburgh Fringe act Tim Fountain.Fountain’s show, Sex Addict, involves him trawling Gaydar, the gay internet site, and asking the audience to pick someone for him to have sex with ...
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Make set to clinch West End tower
Ken Shuttleworth’s Make has beaten Wilkinson Eyre and his former practice Foster & Partners to design the first tall building in London’s West End since the 1960s.
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Opinion
China’s crisis of conscience
Rem Koolhaas had a choice to make in early 2002 and ordered a Chinese meal to give him the strength to make it. Should he bid for the Ground Zero project in Manhattan or the China Central Television building in Beijing?
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Features
Charles Jencks
BooksMy reading is often project-directed, and now I am continuing with the Universe Project (to give it a modest title). So Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything is an interesting popular attempt at the genre, while David Christian’s recent Maps of Time, An Introduction to Big History is ...
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Sustainable construction centre to open in Somerset
Britain’s first centre dedicated to promoting sustainable construction is to open in Taunton, Somerset, early next year.
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CJ Lim goes to Venice to catch the pigeon
Pigeons are under attack from one of the new darlings of British architecture, BD has learnt.
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Cabe slams scale of Paddington proposal
An innovative scheme by Chetwood Associates for commercial space above a new supermarket complex has been criticised by Cabe for lacking clarity and verging on “megastructure” in scale.
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Conservatives lay out policies to boost brownfield housing
The Conservative Party has challenged the government’s regeneration record and unveiled a series of new housing policies.
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Opinion
Slaves to detail must not win urban battle
We have wound ourselves into a Gordian knot. We allow a cynical builder to construct 14 units in mock heritage style shoehorned inelegantly onto a site appropriate for half that amount; while an ambitious, daring and modern interpretation that challenges the site and tries in its own way to contribute ...
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Sergison Bates holds off on plans for Smithson pavilion
Sergison Bates has withdrawn its planning application for a new building in the grounds of Peter and Alison Smithson’s celebrated Solar Pavilion after the Twentieth Century Society called for the 1960s classic to be spotlisted.
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NewsIn to bat in Barbados
Arup Associates has unveiled new images of its plans for the Kensington Oval cricket ground in Barbados. The ground will host the 2007 Cricket World Cup final and will be almost entirely rebuilt, including a new media centre, players pavilion, museum and indoor sports facilities. Just two of the existing ...
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Welsh Tories attack RRPs burger van
The Richard Rogers Partnership’s Welsh Assembly building is once again the subject of a political row after Conservatives likened the design of the catering facilities to a “roadside burger van”.
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NewsLondon-bid brains head to Athens
As the Athens Olympics got under way today, architects working on London’s 2012 bid jetted out to Greece to see how the designs, which include Calatrava’s main stadium (above), work in practice.The Edaw-led design team — which includes architects Allies & Morrison, HOK Sport and Foreign Office Architects — has ...
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OpinionArchitects dogme
Aran Chadwick (Technicalities July 23) makes an interesting connection between the restrictions of the “Dogme” films and those imposed on the making of buildings. The connection could be taken further with a highly selective and restrictive set of rules based on Dogme’s “vow of chastity”. The goal would be to ...
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