All Building Design articles in 14 May 2004 – Page 3
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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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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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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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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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Building StudyRoom at the inn for modernism
Keith Williams checks out Rab Bennetts and Eric Parry's new hotels
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News
Tax plan for Sunderland makeover
A striking new plan to transform Sunderland city centre includes a proposal to tax major developments in order to fund cultural attractions.
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TechnicalRoar of the quiet man
Laurie Abbott is the force behind RRP's remarkable solution for Barcelona. But, as with most of his work, he likes to keep quiet about it.
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NewsSpotcheck: The North-east
Hypostyle Architects'£70 million masterplan for a housing and commercial scheme on Farringdon Row in Sunderland has been submitted for outline planning permission. The first phase includes 90 apartments and 2,800sq m of office space on the site of the former Vaux transport depot owned by Sunderland City Council. The scheme ...
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Opinion
Scratched out
Wondering about the ones that got away in our Power 40? Most disappointing for our Edinburgh contributor Malcolm Fraser will be the exclusion of reggae great Lee "Scratch" Perry. Malcolm reckons he proves "it's not things that matter, not notes or walls, but the space between them, the emptiness that ...
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NewsPower players
What connects Margot Walstrom, Herzog & de Meuron and Hu Jintao? They’ve got what almost everyone wants — power. This trio, from Denmark, Switzerland and China, star in the first-ever BD Power 40 this week: a list of the people with the most power and influence over architecture today and ...
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Opinion
In praise of resin
I was mortified to read of a fly getting caught in James Soane’s floor (Solutions April 30), but I must put the record straight. I love my resin floor, which was laid onto a standard 50-year-old screed, about six months ago. It not only looks gorgeous, but it is very ...
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NewsRRP raises the roof
The dramatic roof of Richard Rogers Partnership's £86 million Antwerp Court House in Belgium is taking shape.Fitting the roof is a major milestone in completing the complex, which includes 36 hearing rooms, offices, library, dining room, underground parking and a public hall in the middle of the complex. The crystalline ...
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NewsTower restored
Richard Griffiths Architects has completed the refurbishment of the grade II* listed Freston Tower near Ipswich, Suffolk. The six-storey tower overlooks the mouth of the river Orwell and was built in 1578. The restoration was funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, English Heritage and individual donations. The building is now ...
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News
Small towns set for shopping revolution
The British Council of Shopping Centres has commissioned the Bartlett School of Planning to investigate how small towns can benefit from retail-led regeneration.
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Opinion
Serving the rich
I was interested to see Nec Teymur’s response to Charles Jencks’s plea for a moral stance by architects (Letters May 7). The fact of the matter is that architectural practice seems devoid of any kind of moral imperative. As Teymur points out, architects go where the money is, whether it ...
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