All Building Design articles in 17 September 2004 – Page 2

  • Lighting accurately simulated with Monodesigngroups 3D visualisation software, which uses photometric data to provide a more realistic appearance. The luminance pattern, contrast and brightness ratios are more accurately represented.
    Technical

    Flipping the lights fantastic

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    In the past, accurate 3D-modelling of lighting within a scheme wasn’t possible, but, thanks to new technology the future of lighting design is looking bright.

  • Opinion

    School duel

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Peter Cook’s Nine Positions theme for the British pavilion was the subject of much salon discussion (that’s what you do in Venice).

  • Opinion

    Dearth in Venice

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    The stakes are high at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Every architect on show is compared to the best in the rest of the world.

  • Daniel Libeskind
    Features

    Daniel Libeskind

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Daniel Libeskind has curated a season of films for the Barbican to tie in with the exhibition of his work. He explains his choices.

  • News

    Timber issues not so cut and dried, says RIBA

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    The RIBA this week hit back at claims by Greenpeace that architects should only specify Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) wood.

  • John Pawson's room is devoted to his Novy Dvur Monastery in the Czech Republic.
    Review

    Too many cooks

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    The rampant diversity in UK architecture on display at the Biennale is bad news, not cause for celebration

  • News

    Size does matter as Peter Cook joins HOK

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Archigram veteran and Stirling-shortlisted architect, Peter Cook, will next week launch a surprise career in commercial architecture when he starts work at HOK in London.

  • Opinion

    Silliness continues

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    I thought the start of September was supposed to mark the end of “silly season”. Your September 3 front page suggests otherwise.If Wakefield District Council and its coterie of media-friendly architects really think it is appropriate to package up “regeneration” and the spending of public money for the benefit ...

  • News

    Rogers has designs on Cloud site

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    RRP set to propose Fourth Grace

  • Opinion

    Ignoring clinical experts unhealthy

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    As healthcare planning adviser to the competing Renaissance team on the Barts/Royal London Hospital project, it would be inappropriate for RKW Healthcare Strategists to comment on the specifics of the controversial Skanska/HOK design which the Trust initially selected (News August 27). What does concern us is the suggestion that the ...

  • Opinion

    Holyrood: A warning to clients

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    The architects have escaped taking the full brunt of the Holyrood blame, but only because the client group bungled things in a more spectacular way than anyone thought possible.

  • Channel 4's Jon Snow will host BD's Architect of the Year Awards.
    News

    Vote for top client

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    They spend all year scrutinising your performance, now it’s your turn as we ask you to nominate the client of the year for 2004.

  • Libeskind's "Crystal" extension to the Royal Ontario Museum, Canada, due to open at the end of 2005.
    Review

    Ever decreasing circles

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Are Libeskind’s architectural powers deserting him? John McKean examines the evidence

  • The Charrettes
    Features

    The Charettes

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

  • News

    Big Brother gets bigger

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Design watchdog Cabe is looking to regional development agencies for help in reviewing building projects

  • Opinion

    Big heads in China

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Herzog & de Meuron and Rem Koolhaas, perhaps the world’s two hottest architects of the moment, were virtually invisible at Venice. The talk on the grapevine was that they had bigger fish to fry and instead were preparing to exhibit at the first Beijing Architecture Biennale which opens this week. ...

  • The arrangement of the different elements that make up the sculpture with the reflector tower on the far right.
    Technical

    Sunlight bathing

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    A new sculpture destined for Blackpool promises an enlightening experience.

  • News

    Planners strike averted in province

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Chaos for architects in Northern Ireland was averted when planners in the province voted against all out industrial action.

  • News

    Arup competing for TV tower in China

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Arup is one of the frontrunners to design a dramatic new TV tower in Guangzhou, China.

  • Another fine mesh
    News

    Another fine mesh

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Tonkin Liu has unveiled designs for an elegant private residence in Spain. A collection of five differently proportioned buildings arranged around a central corridor, La Kangra in Andalusia effectively sits on landscaped pools of water and is designed to allow the prevailing wind to cool the interior spaces.Designed for an ...