All Building Design articles in 2 April 2004 – Page 2
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NewsHolyrood costs 'kept secret'
Wife defends Enric Miralles as a 'genius' in last week of inquiry into Scottish Parliament building
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NewsLocal challenge to density
North London residents fight plans for 1,355 new homes in test case of government housing policy
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Opinion
Noisy celebrations
Young Architect of the Year, Austrian practice Querkraft got a lesson in British boozing after the awards ceremony last week. After the formal proceedings, architecture’s great and good decided to take the winners to a nearby pub to continue the celebrations. But, Querkraft partners Peter Sapp and Jacob Dunkl looked ...
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News
CCA director retires
The director of the Canadian Centre for Architecture, who oversaw the controversial acquisition of Jim Stirling’s archive in 2001, has retired after 15 years at the institute. Nicholas Olsberg will be succeeded by current chairman Phyllis Lambert. Olsberg bought Stirling’s archive of drawings when the RIBA could not raise the ...
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FeaturesCathedral culture
As all psychogeographers know, the most appealing features of urban landscape – the industrial wastelands, the unconscious anachronisms, the unreconstructed local distinctiveness – are the victims of regeneration and the heritage industry.
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News
Cabe hopes to calm things
Cabe is to publish guidelines on housing density that it hopes will minimise local opposition.
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OpinionBinding contracts
Detailed contracts and tight deadlines mean less time for creativity and more distrust between parties
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News
Planning Bill 'won't help one jot'
Rees also slammed the Planning Bill in the week after the bill had its final reading. Rees claimed the bill, which is set to become law next month, wouldn't help crisis-ridden planning departments "one jot".
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News
Corby eyes iconic bid
Urban regeneration company Catalyst Corby is looking for architects to design an iconic new town centre for Corby, the former steel town in Northamptonshire. A planned £4 billion redevelopment would create a new town square, council offices and an arts centre. Contact Jon Whowell at Corby Borough Council on 01536 ...
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News
BDP Stockport win
Building Design Partnership has been commisioned by Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council to draw up a masterplan for the redevelopment of Stockport town centre. The masterplan, supported by the North West Development Agency and Cabe, will look at ways to improve city-centre buildings from the 1960s, including the much-loathed bus station. ...
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Opinion
Basildon bonds
Basildon residents have taken umbrage with Terry Farrell after he pledged to prevent the “Basildonisation” of Edinburgh. It may have made a nice line for Edinburgh’s most famous architectural Sassenach just weeks into his reign as the city’s design tsar, but bridges already need building in Essex – or perhaps ...
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Opinion
Bill is bad news
Far from being pleased that "good design" is to be an additional factor that planning authorities will now have to take into account when considering planning applications, I fear it may well prove to be a poisoned chalice. The term is impossible to define and its interpretation will therefore inevitably ...
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News
Student assurances
The RIBA has met with education minister Alan Johnson to discuss university top-up fees and was reassured that students gaining professional experience between RIBA part I and part II would be eligible for fee support, access to a student loan and deferred repayment of student loans.
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News
Me and my architect
How and why the rich and famous choose the architect to create the home of their dreams will be explored in a new BBC series to be screened next month.
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Opinion
Offending Arb
I was recently prosecuted for contravening the regulations of the RIBA and Arb. Quite right, too. I was guilty of such contravention and given a conditional discharge with £200 costs.This cost the RIBA and Arb a considerable sum for sending a barrister to Bedford, supported by an expensive central London ...
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News
Minister defends Arb
The minister in charge of the Architects Registration Board has given the regulator his full backing. Phil Hope, the parliamentary under-secretary of state for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, rejected calls for an inquiry into the Arb. He said: “I have full confidence in the board and the ...
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Opinion
Defending Arb
Jack Pringle's comment about an RIBA-administered register (News March 19) is not new. It was mooted previously when the Architects Act was being debated. Current thinking in government and consumer circles is that professional and regulatory bodies ought to be separate to avoid conflicts of interest. Members look to their ...
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