All Building Design articles in 19 November 2004 – Page 2
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Opinion
Fee hike hits the most vulnerable
Here we go again. The most vulnerable are the ones to suffer in the so-called drive to improve efficiency (“Crackdown on foreign architects”, News November 5).What is the justification for an almost 500% increase by Arb in the cost for getting non-EU part I and part II equivalent qualifications recognised?The ...
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ReviewFarrells follies
The Climatron, a rather groovy hi-tech holiday island connected to the base of the Blackpool Tower by railway, was Terry Farrell’s final-year design thesis at Newcastle University back in 1961. This Buckminster Fuller-inspired project is one of 25 designs from Farrell’s early life and career discussed in his new book, ...
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Opinion
Go the extra mile
I believe the RIBA is being unnecessarily harsh on Arb (News November 5) with regards to the 500% increase in fees to recognise non-EU part I and II equivalent degrees.The new fee of £1,996 I am to pay merely covers the expense of one return flight to New ...
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Building StudyMaking an entrance
Dixon Jones’s £17 million first phase of the National Gallery’s renovation improves the building’s public face with a new entrance and a public court, says Catherine Croft.
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Opinion
Egged on
Massimiliano Fuksas has reason to celebrate this week after winning the commission to regenerate Salford — his first project on British soil. How he plans to toast this success is anyone’s guess, but the world-famous architect does have a liking for an extremely expensive substance — caviar.Interviewed by BD this ...
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Opinion
Fame drain
Our practice, along with 200 others, entered the Architecture Foundation’s design competition for its new headquarters. Like other small, “unknown” practices, we were encouraged to read that the AF “have no prejudices as to the fame or experience of the eventual winner”. But we were disappointed by the shortlist.Although there ...
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News
Fuksas touches down in Salford
Massimiliano Fuksas is the name on the lips of Salford folk this week after the celebrated Italian architect was selected to masterplan the regeneration of the city centre. Here’s something he made earlier — meeting rooms which form part of the Bortolo Nardini Group Headquarters in Bassano Del Grappa, which ...
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NewsTemple of doom
Wren’s Temple Bar was returned to London last week. But what does author and psychogeographer Iain Sinclair make of its latest incarnation? He tells Ellis Woodman why the gate has lost its power
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News
Mayor would refuse latest designs for Royal London
The designers of the controversial Royal London Hospital in east London are being forced back to the drawing board once again after London Mayor Ken Livingstone said this week he would not support the latest redesign.The scheme, by HOK Architects, has been mired in controversy since Cabe slammed the designs ...
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Opinion
Fashion darlings
It’s official: DRMM has arrived in fashionable circles, having just made it on to Vogue magazine’s “must-know who, what, where, how and why of the moment list”. Alongside pictures of Scarlett Johansson, Sienna Miller, Kirsten Dunst, José Antonio Reyes and Sam Taylor Wood are Philip Marsh, Sadie Morgan and Alex ...
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Opinion
Cowboy dreams
The fundraising for David Adjaye’s Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver is in full swing. An event last week, which raised $250,000 for the museum, included a game of chance where people purchased a can for $100 that contained a mystery prize. One of the prizes was a trip to ...
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Opinion
Counting support
This week’s Arb board meeting took an amusing turn when chairman Humphrey Lloyd pointed to statistically dubious feedback on Arb’s annual report.He proudly pointed out that an impressive 11.8% of respondents found his foreword the most interesting section, with only a lowly 11.2% opting for the report of the ...
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ReviewComfort and joy
French firm Lacaton & Vassal’s AA show and recent inclusion on the Architecture Foundation HQ shortlist mark its emergence on a wider stage, writes Pamela Buxton
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News
Top of the class
Aedas has been appointed by the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea to design a new building for Holland Park School in west London. The practice beat a shortlist also including BDP, Feilden Clegg Bradley, Wilkinson Eyre and Eric Parry. It will now work on a feasibility study for the ...
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Opinion
Classic clanger
Ian Martin may have been away last week, but one of his conceits seems to have found digital form, appearing in full colour on your front page (November 12).Some have suggested that the classicist tendency is no more than a cover for an absence of individual architectural vision, and the ...
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FeaturesCinema paradiso
The latest version of Cinema 4D is a must for any practice that is serious about computer visualisation, says Jonathan Reeves
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News
Shed KM chosen for New Islington site
A prestigious competition to design the next phase of new housing on the Alsop-masterplanned Millennium Community site in east Manchester has been won by Liverpool practice Shed KM.Shed KM beat a shortlist also comprising de Rijke Marsh Morgan, Spacecraft Architects, Squire & Partners, Mecanoo Architects, Conran & Partners and Hawkins ...
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Building StudyFirst Look: Oar-inspiring designs for Chelsea
Sarah Wigglesworth Architects has revealed arresting new designs for a £375,000 canoeing centre in Chelsea.
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