All Building Design articles in 16 July 2004 – Page 2
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Opinion
Speed freak
Brian Godfrey attended a Formula One race instead of campaigning for the RIBA presidential elections last month. “I was so close to the action I could have reached out and shaken Michael Schumacher’s hand. The only problem was he was going 500 miles an hour.”Probably not a good idea ...
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Opinion
Forward march
Michael Wigginton, chair of Plymouth School of Architecture and Design, claims (Letters July 9) his students are free to choose their own direction. So, presumably, the tutors who pass or fail them suppress their own views?He also writes that the public may eventually catch up with this radical thinking. This ...
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News
Pioneering Robinson exits Peabody role
Dickon Robinson, the popular client behind innovative schemes at BedZed and Murray Grove, is stepping down as the Peabody Trust’s development director.
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News
Spotcheck: East of England
Will Alsop’s £300 million Star of the East tourist attraction on the Norfolk fens could still see the light of day. The environmentally themed visitor attraction and biomass power station lost the recent “Landmark for the East of England” competition, but the team behind the project remain optimistic. The carbon-reduction ...
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News
Simpson rolls the dice
A huge casino and leisure facility, designed by Ian Simpson Architects, has been unveiled in Manchester.The dramatic glass structure is part of a £260 million scheme led by two developers — Kerzner International and Ask Developments — which were appointed by client Manchester City Council this week. The scheme is ...
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Opinion
Design lesson
Regarding your article about the “victory” of the developers in relation to the Annandale Primary School site in Greenwich (News July 9), it was more a case of the council screwing up and leaving the developers this very fortunate technical opportunity to appeal. The site is not one of good ...
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News
Lib Dems scrap RRP scheme
Newcastle’s new Liberal Democrat leaders have ditched a £200 million regeneration masterplan by Richard Rogers Partnership.
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Opinion
SOS at DCMS
The axe was hanging over the Department for Culture Media & Sport this week. But the axe never fell. The immediate net reduction in posts is merely 30, so McIntosh’s band can rest easy for now. But with listing decisions being devolved to English Heritage and Gordon Brown championing ...
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Opinion
We can save design from PFI darkness
The sight of architects using the annual RIBA conference to bleat about their dwindling status in public procurement projects is as predictable as the British summer is rainy.
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Review
Croatian dreams
The sculptures by Croatian artist Dusan Dzamonja have been compared to the work of contemporary architects such as Gehry, Libeskind and Hadid, though his monumental structures also reward him with a place alongside idealists such as Archigram.An exhibition of his work opened at the RIBA in London this week, timed ...
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News
Countryside victory
A modern country house in Oxfordshire by Adrian James Architects has won planning permission after appeal. St John’s House is proposed for a greenfield site at Ramsden, Oxfordshire, with sweeping views of the Cotswolds. According to the Oxford-based practice, it is the first country house of a contemporary design to ...
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Features
Image conscious
Architect Mathew Emmett has developed an extraordinary way of combining hand drawings, scanning techniques and Photoshop manipulation. Emmett, who co-runs Totnes-based practice Group Emmett Design, has two pieces in the Royal Academy’s Summer Show. This image was inspired by the way palaeontologists spot the traces of air sacks in the ...
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Opinion
Comic relief
The glamour of awards ceremonies is often marred by duff categories. But can things get any worse than “commercial loo of the year” - a new contest launched this week. Set aside the unfortunate double meaning in the sponsor’s claim that “loos have become an environment in which architects and ...
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News
So long, Solon Design collective
The utopian dream of architects working in one of the last collective housing associations in the country died this week after their department was abolished.
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Opinion
Keeping it clean
I greatly welcome the election of Jack Pringle to succeed me from September next year and congratulate the others on a good clean contest. We see very much eye to eye on the crucial issues facing the profession as well as the need to review architectural education. In commenting on ...
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Opinion
Childs play
If you felt starved of news about Ken Shuttleworth after last week’s Ken-free BD, The Times came to the rescue on Saturday with a major profile of the man as the next big thing in British architecture. Norman must be loving this. Still there’s always something to bring you down ...
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Opinion
A cheap shot?
As a young architect trying to persuade the world that there are better ways to live than in a Barratt Home and also as one trying to develop sustainable housing through innovations such as prefabrication, the headline “Prefab security slammed” was distinctly unhelpful.The Peabody scheme is a cutting-edge inner-city redevelopment ...
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Features
A monumental poisoned chalice
Given the hysterical reactions to last week’s unveiling of the Princess Diana memorial, you have to ask why any self-respecting artist or architect would be insane enough to design such a thing. How can they ignore the many failed attempts to erect a public memorial which actually satisfies the public? ...
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