All Building Design articles in 15 October 2004 – Page 3

  • News

    Cabe survey says most new housing is badly designed

    2004-10-15T00:00:00Z

    Cabe has called for more government guidance on “good architecture” after a national housing audit found that most new developments were poorly designed.

  • Review

    Much truck with art

    2004-10-15T00:00:00Z

    Part art, part architecture, part lorry, Dwelling X is the latest work by artist Lucy Orta. Conceived as a habitable public sculpture in the form of a mobile social space, the structure will park up in Nottingham’s Market Square from October 15 to 21. It is a result of Orta’s ...

  • Reception of innovation centre for Peterborough, designed by local practice Ruddle Wilkinson.
    News

    Spotcheck: East Anglia

    2004-10-15T00:00:00Z

    Facelift to Lasdun blocksDenys Lasdun’s grade II listed Ziggurat student residences at the University of East Anglia are to get a £4 million facelift. The iconic 1960s blocks have not been refurbished for 40 years. The refurbishment could also see students return to the balcony roofs, which were closed five ...

  • Opinion

    Blind ambition?

    2004-10-15T00:00:00Z

    How government policy works: Wayne Hemmingway and John Prescott are discussing housing density and the deputy prime minister apparently voices concern that too much density means neighbours can peer into your windows, creating, shall we say, privacy problems. For Wayne, an advocate of all things dense, there’s a simple solution. ...

  • Opinion

    Libeskind tells all

    2004-10-15T00:00:00Z

    A review copy of Daniel Libeskind’s autobiography finally arrived at BD this week. The book is a perfect reflection of Libeskind in that it is strange and short. It contains such revelations as New York is a place where “no one has ever said anything nasty “ to him; when ...

  • News

    Modernist master calls it a day at 98

    2004-10-15T00:00:00Z

    At the age of 98, one of modern architecture’s most influential exponents, Philip Johnson, has announced that he is to retire.

  • Detail showing diagonal hanger connection to auditorium wall.
    Technical

    In detail 26: Unicorn Theatre for Children

    2004-10-15T00:00:00Z

    An educational facility and plant room forms the second main volume to the Unicorn Theatre. The steel structure is located on the south side of the main auditorium above the public staircase.

  • News

    Rogers to retire... in 10 years

    2004-10-15T00:00:00Z

    Richard Rogers this week raised the spectre of him heading up his practice into his 80s.