All Building Design articles in 18 June 2004 – Page 2
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Opinion
Hailing Holyrood
RMJM recently refused to let the BD-commissioned freelance writer Peter Wilson into the Scottish Parliament building because he had been critical of it in the past. But national press coverage of Holyrood has been more favourable. Observer architecture critic Deyan Sudjic spent a page praising the nearly finished building ...
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News
Grimshaw's great glass giant
Designs by Grimshaw for a landmark $750 million transport hub in Lower Manhattan have gone on public display in New York City. A glass entrance building is topped off with a glass oculus that extends high above street level at Fulton Street and Broadway. It will direct sunlight into the ...
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FeaturesGame plans
To help its clients understand a huge new masterplan, RTKL built an interactive model using computer game techniques, writes David Littlefield
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Building StudyLessons in flexible planning
Rab Bennetts goes back to school with two Islington college schemes
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NewsJobs go as Ushida Findlay folds
Ushida Findlay Architects has gone into voluntary liquidation, with all 12 staff made redundant.
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News
PFI fells Welsh giant
Outsourcing business Capita swooped on the Percy Thomas Partnership this week as mounting debts forced Wales's leading practice into administration.
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Opinion
Farewell photo
How the penny drops. Cabe commissioner Sunand Prasad was unusually keen to take a photo of the throng at Jon Rouse’s leaving do last week. All the commissioners were there in force. It seemed an odd urge at the time, but now with Stuart Lipton’s resignation and the admission of ...
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Building StudyFirst Look: Light at the end of a tunnel
McDowell & Benedetti is working up detailed designs for a three-storey office building next to London's famous diamond-dealing and jewellery quarter at Hatton Garden in Clerkenwell.
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News
Foster's loses Elephant job
Architects at Make have pinched the next phase of the Elephant & Castle project from under the noses of their former employer, Foster & Partners.
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News
Matcham in doubt
Burrell Foley Fischer’s plan to save the grade II listed Royal Hall in Harrogate, by Frank Matcham, is in doubt after the government refused to intervene in a restoration row.
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Opinion
Dont talk, make
I notice that, yet again, you have featured a building/comment by Ken Shuttleworth in your publication — this time a natty wicker stool (News June 11). I think perhaps the time has come to look at other architects, perhaps even some who are actually building rather than just talking ...
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News
Dixon Jones proposes grand entrance for National Gallery
The National Gallery is considering plans by Dixon Jones Architects for a grand staircase at the main Trafalgar Square entrance.
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Opinion
Pay and display
Charges for pre-planning consultations should be the other way round; architects should be paid to discuss embryo schemes with planning officers so that the latter may have some influence on the form and content of applications, thus hopefully making them more acceptable to the local authority and so more readily ...
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Opinion
Opposites detract
Last week’s Architecture Foundation debate on the eastern growth of the City of London had all the subtlety of a bulldozer. At one end of the debating table was Mike Bear, the developer behind the controversial demolition of Spitalfields Market, who described the Foster & Partners office block built on ...
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News
Housebuilding slows despite Prescott push
The government’s crusade to build more houses was dealt a blow this week after new figures showed less new homes had been built than this time last year.
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News
Luder to restore Voysey debut
Owen Luder, the architect behind some of the most celebrated brutalist buildings of the sixties, is to renovate an important arts & crafts movement house.
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News
Elite school makes way for fresh creativity
The vacant role of chair at the Architectural Association could be split in two to allow one of the UK's major up-and-coming architects to steer its creative direction unburdened by management and administrative responsibilities.
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News
Gestapo museum competition
An international design competition is to be launched to design a museum in Berlin documenting the work of the Gestapo.
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FeaturesThe shape of things to come
KPF's computer guru Lars Hesselgren explores a bright future for computer-based design, but warns that advanced cad techniques are no substitute for architectural concepts
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