All Building Design articles in 14 May 2004 – Page 2
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Features
Housing: it's the procurement, stupid
I would like to build homes that I want to live in, on a budget that makes them affordable for more than the lucky 10% of the working population who earn more than £35,000 a year.
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Opinion
Slap of honour
Cook also provided one of the event's more farcical moments when he met self-confessed flavour of the month Shih-fu Peng. The winner of the Egyptian museum competition sidled up to the Bartlett professor to shake his hand. Unfortunately, Cook evidently had no idea who the younger man was. "That's Shih-fu ...
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News
‘MSPs misled over Holyrood’
MSPs were misled by civil servants about the true cost of the new Holyrood Parliament building, according to the head of the long-running inquiry into the troubled project.
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Building StudyWish you were here
A cultural jamboree, set to attract millions of visitors, has kickstarted a massive regeneration project in Barcelona.
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Opinion
Given the slip
Architect Niall McLaughlin has secured new work of an unusual and rather unwelcome kind. A banana-mad minicab driver has taken to parking directly outside McLaughlin’s London office. Unfortunately, the late-night cabbie deposits a potentially dangerous pile of banana skins on the street, leaving public-spirited McLaughlin to deal with it each ...
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NewsGehry goes large at MIT
Frank Gehry’s latest building proves that the superstar architect has lost none of his passion for obtuse angles and rippling stainless-steel cladding. Gehry’s dramatic Ray & Maria Stata Centre for Computer, Information & Intelligence Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology opened its doors to the public last week. It ...
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News
Portakabin firm expands hospital
Portakabin subsiduary Yorkon has won its first contract for an NHS ProCure 21 project.
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News
Run-down estate to be rebuilt
Architects are preparing to bid for a £550 million redevelopment of one of the most run-down housing estates in Britain.
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News
Embassy projects frozen
Three new British embassies have been put on hold due to a major security review at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO).
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Opinion
Theatre of dreams
Director of Netherlands-based practice S333, Chris Moller, certainly has a way with words. Discussing plans to regenerate Oldham, reported in last week’s First Look, the New Zealander was asked to describe his design for the new Oldham Coliseum theatre.“The theatre is in the sky, so to speak,” he said. ...
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Opinion
Doolan: a sad loss
Andrew Doolan’s death (News April 30) has certainly robbed Scottish culture and the architectural fraternity of one of its most gifted practitioners.A millionaire and largely self-taught, here was someone who dreamed and then built what he dreamed. No doubt it was not as simple as that, but to those of ...
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News
Less design, Peabody warned
The housing association credited with revolutionising the design of recent affordable housing in the UK was this week told to curb its innovative instincts by the Audit Commission.
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Opinion
Derry sorry
I note from your piece (News April 30) that the Playhouse, Artillery Street, Derry, has relocated to Derby (twice), which will come as quite a shock to all concerned. An interesting piece of relocation restoration indeed. Derry is a small city in Northern Ireland: you might have heard of it, ...
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Opinion
The daft declaration
"The Delft Declaration" has the ring of an announcement designed to reverberate through history. But the portentous-sounding communication from the heads of architecture schools is far from that.
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Building Study
First Look: Conran & Partners joins Salford set
Conran & Partners is set to join Studio Daniel Libeskind and Michael Wilford & Partners as the latest big-name practice to contribute to the regeneration of Salford Quays, Manchester.
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