All Building Design articles in 16 April 2004 – Page 2
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News
Small investment for Gateway
Small practices should "become clients" and invest money in small schemes in London's Thames Gateway, the RIBA's small practice conference was told last week.
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Building StudyWaiting game
Ellis Woodman visits Peter Smithson's final project – a chair museum in Germany – and uncovers a challenge to today's architects.
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NewsKings of the wild frontier
John Prescott and Richard Rogers remain the power behind UK architecture policy. We asked them how the Sustainable Communities Plan was shaping up. Neither seemed entirely happy with progress
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RRP Wembley plan under fire
Opponents say masterplan must be scaled down unless transport is improved
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'Too many fingers in the Gateway pie'
Richard Rogers has warned that the government is interfering too directly in the Thames Gateway and is fuelling confusion among architects over who is in control.
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Opinion
Regional fairness
I was at first shocked when I read that the RIBA was to get strict on those that do not comply in terms of membership, professional indemnity insurance and CPD, but then I realised it would rid me of the unfair competition and I thought it an excellent move. However, ...
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TechnicalFace painting
A revamped Young Vic Theatre will be clad with 160 abstract paintings writes Pamela Buxton
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Opinion
The wrath of EH
The Audit Commission has run the rule over Runnymede District Council, which gave Beadle consent to demolish the Wentworth house by Connell Ward & Lucas. The council, whose planning committee sanctioned the demolition subject to John Prescott’s approval, has been designated an “excellent” local authority with particular reference to making ...
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News
Design skills lacking
Lack of design skills in planning departments is still a big factor leading to many poorly designed schemes winning approval, a Cabe survey revealed last week.
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Opinion
Design falls into the wrong hands
One can’t fault the intention behind the amendment of planning law to improve building design standards, but providing local planning authorities with the power to determine the design merits of an application will not necessarily end happily.Having recently won two planning appeals; the grounds in part being based on PPG1 ...
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Opinion
Dictating demands
Romanian architect Anca Petrescu is looking for work having just completed her first job. The 54-year-old is available after completing the world’s second largest building, the 3,700-room Parliament Palace in Bucharest. She can call on experience of a demanding client (the late dictator Nicolae Ceausescu), the interruption of a palace ...
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Features
Number crunching that dilutes quality
There is no doubt the concept of Private Public Partnerships is here to stay, at least for a while. What is less certain is how it will operate in delivering the "quality architecture" everyone from Whitehall downwards glibly talks about.
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Opinion
Cost versus ego
Victor Stellyes, project manager for contractor Costain on Daniel Libeskind's London Metropolitan University building, revealed the high level of cost-cutting at a recent BD conference.His illustrations showed the scheme had not altogether changed, but the project lost its stellar appeal because the closer details, finishes and specification lacked the careful ...
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News
Comeback for Tardis
A new generation of mini police buildings could be on the way after planning permission was gained for a small glazed structure in the centre of London.
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News
The Smithsons and their purrfect client
Alison and Peter Smithson, two of the greats of modern architecture, revelled in a private fantasy that one of their top clients was a pet cat called Karlchen.
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News
Ferguson heads China mission
RIBA president George Ferguson and Will Alsop are to spearhead next month’s RIBA-USA trade mission to China.
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Opinion
The celebrity racket
“I am summoned to the RIPBA. The president, Fred Trousers, has ‘writer’s skid’”
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News
Threat to Get Carter car park
The Twentieth Century Society has protested over the planned demolition of a Gateshead car park made famous by the cult gangster film Get Carter.
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