All Building Design articles in 16 April 2004 – Page 3

  • News

    Camden Lift push

    2004-04-16T00:00:00Z

    Allford Hall Monaghan Morris’s Kentish Town Integrated Care Centre for the Camden & Islington NHS Local Improvement Finance Trust (Lift) has been submitted for planning approval.

  • Opinion

    Clissold cacophony

    2004-04-16T00:00:00Z

    A series of bizarre faults with the Clissold Leisure Centre are listed in Hackney council’s latest report on the troubled north London building. One item on the list reads: “Inadequate privacy to female changing rooms.” Another states: “Blocked symphonic drainage outlets”. The last one perplexed BD. Isn’t the word “symphonic” ...

  • Building Study

    A building the Thames needs?

    2004-04-16T00:00:00Z

    Jeremy Till on Foster's new housing in the first of our guest critiques

  • News

    Cullinan visitor centre for Botanic Garden

    2004-04-16T00:00:00Z

    Edward Cullinan Architects is designing an ambitious £10 million visitor centre for the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.

  • News

    Your new BD – fresher, sharper, bigger

    2004-04-16T00:00:00Z

    We've been working with the best designers in the business to create a new look, incorporate extra features and improve every page of your essential weekly.

  • Opinion

    Ban the bad

    2004-04-16T00:00:00Z

    RIBA president George Ferguson is urging architects to “practise intolerance” on bad architecture with a rallying call on the profession to be “as intolerant of bad and mediocre architecture and planning as we should be of bad food”. So next time you walk past a building, you don’t like you ...

  • News

    Architects urged to infiltrate planning

    2004-04-16T00:00:00Z

    The government must find ways to persuade more architects to become planners, RIBA president George Ferguson urged last week.

  • Opinion

    Angela Brady

    2004-04-16T00:00:00Z

    Building the Dream is a new reality game show with the biggest prize ever given away on daytime TV – a £500,000 house designed by architect Brady Mallalieu. Here Brady talks to Karen Glaser about being broadcast to the nation

  • Opinion

    Stand firm against PFI trophy hunters

    2004-04-16T00:00:00Z

    Is it commercially astute or cynically manipulative to hire good architects to improve your PFI bid and then drop their services once you’ve won?

  • News

    Adjaye wins first major US commission

    2004-04-16T00:00:00Z

    Architect David Adjaye has finally bagged a major project in the US after winning a competition to design an art gallery in Denver, Colorado.

  • News

    The world according to Joep

    2004-04-16T00:00:00Z

    Is this the future of small practices? Karen Glaser listens to Joep van Lieshout's plans to change architecture

  • News

    Hodder in £7m claim

    2004-04-16T00:00:00Z

    Council reveals full cost and extent of Clissold Leisure Centre problems

  • News

    Architect fined £7,500 for piracy

    2004-04-16T00:00:00Z

    Architects are among the worst-offending computer software pirates in the UK, industry watchdog the Business Software Alliance told BD this week.

  • News

    1930s cinema faces demolition

    2004-04-16T00:00:00Z

    The interior of a much-loved 1930s cinema in Edinburgh is set to be demolished under schemes by three of the city's leading architects.

  • Technical

    In detail 01: Verulamium Hypocaust Building, St Albans

    2004-04-16T00:00:00Z

    A mosaic floor and hypocaust from a ruined villa in the Roman city of Verulamium are enclosed and protected by a single storey building. Disturbance of the ground has been minimised by using 24 micro-piles , threaded perforated tubes 30mm in diameter, which are drilled into the ground and pumped ...

  • News

    RIAS puts up £25,000 prize for 2004 award

    2004-04-16T00:00:00Z

    The RIAS has renewed its pledge of a £25,000 prize for the best new building in Scotland.