All Building Design articles in 2 April 2004 – Page 3

  • News

    Gillespies, Patel Taylor, Stig L Andersson (SLA), Gustafson Porter, Hopkins Architects

    2004-04-02T00:00:00Z

    Gillespies, Patel Taylor, Stig L Andersson (SLA), Gustafson Porter, Hopkins Architects and Conran & Partners have been shortlisted to redevelop Nottingham’s Old Market Square. Clockwise from top left: Patel Taylor’s “container for contrasting uses”; Gillespies’ landscaped “sky park”; Hopkins Architects’ network of 1,000 bronze circles.

  • News

    Anatomy of a 'nightmare'

    2004-04-02T00:00:00Z

    What the Fraser inquiry heard:September 1997Cost of new Parliament is estimated at between £10 million and £40 million.December 1997Competing architect Enric Miralles submits his professional indemnity insurance certificate, which is later found to provide insufficient coverage for the job. January 1998Holyrood officially selected as site for parliament.April 1998Twelve design firms ...

  • Opinion

    A-level exposé

    2004-04-02T00:00:00Z

    Damn it! Ian Martin has rumbled me (March 26). No A-levels and an architectural education in a metal shed that morphed into a polytechnic and a university years after I left. Will any planning department ridden with Channel 5 newsreader lookalikes and lawyers ever understand my statement on concept and ...

  • News

    Agricultural loopholes delay planning

    2004-04-02T00:00:00Z

    Grazing cattle and fields of corn are the latest obstacles faced by beleaguered architects in the increasingly bizarre challenge of getting planning permission.

  • News

    John Thompson’s 5,500-home development

    2004-04-02T00:00:00Z

    John Thompson’s 5,500-home development on the edge of Moscow, which comes with a false history of the town’s origins, has been criticised as being “as bad as Disney”.