All Building Design articles in 2 July 2004 – Page 2
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News
GCSE students tell Farrell to liven up
Terry Farrell has worked for some hard taskmasters in his time, but they don’t come any tougher than the teenage clients he is working for on the refurbishment of a school hall in Oldham.
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News
Political pressure for united education
Richard Rogers is to lobby ministers for a root-and-branch reform of architectural training. He wants to bring together architecture, landscape architecture and urban design in a new undergraduate degree, which will be followed by specialist postgraduate studies.He said planning should also be integrated in that mix, but believes education authorities ...
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News
Spotcheck: East Midlands
Harborough Museum in Market Harborough will invite architects to submit designs for a £500,000 renovation following completion of a public consultation on how to update its facilities, displays and access. Improvements are set to include ultraviolet filters on windows to protect exhibits, a new lift and toilets. The consultation is ...
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Features
Time is the essence for future of design
Good design requires many different factors, a clear brief, a strong client, good designers, but above all, time. There is an inevitable process of reflection, discussion, consultation, considering others and interrogating the brief.
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Opinion
Cross dressing up
Is the reporter on Alsop’s designs for The Public in West Bromwich (Solutions June 25) ashamed to write about corrugated cladding, and instead has to dress it up as sinusoidal cladding? It’s this kind of pretentiousness that distances the profession from the public.
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Opinion
Common purpose
Andrew Matthews (In Practice June 18) bemoans the increasing influence of other consultants in developing design proposals, but he might consider the reasons behind such a large design team. As long as architects find other specialisms confusing we will continue to need those who have an expert understanding of the ...
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NewsCockney colour
Pastina Matthews Architects has revealed designs for a colourful mixed-use develop-ment for a private developer in London’s Whitechapel.The £650,000 project, which has already secured planning permission, is in Gunthorpe Street, adjacent to Whitechapel Art Gallery and will provide six apartments and one commercial unit. It features a coloured glazed facade, ...
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Building Study
Class structure
DRMM's refurbishment of Kingsdale in south London gives the post-war school a bright future.
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News
Stars donate work to rescue Wren church
Norman Foster, Richard Rogers and Will Alsop have joined forces to help rescue Wren’s St James’s church in Piccadilly.
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Opinion
Prince Charming
Minister for housing and planning Keith Hill grins… and grins and grins. If prizes were won for grinning, Hill would win them all. Mild use of violence would probably only make his grin more inane. And now, having charmed audiences everywhere with his Mr Nice Guy with bonhomie to spare ...
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Opinion
Ferguson’s challenge: lead a revolution
We should welcome the stirrings of revolution around the professional status of architects.
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Opinion
Captain Cabe man
You have got the wrong end of the stick about Cabe’s design review committee (News June 25), as your editorial did the week before when it described me as Cabe’s chairman (I am deputy chairman). I did not tell your reporter that DRC would be the subject of a big ...
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NewsBuilding a life on Mars
This week’s design contest for Antarctica will inspire the first buildings on Mars.
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News
Faulkner Brown hits Tory snag
Faulkner Brown’s joy at being selected to design a major mixed-use scheme in Altrincham, near Manchester, has been cut short after the new Tory administration said it would start the whole selection process again.
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Opinion
Take bold steps
In 1982, an Architectural Association student proposed a grand entrance staircase for the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square. It was considered too freakish an idea and rejected.In “Dixon Jones proposes grand entrance” (News June 18), we see that loftier concepts may prevail again. However, judging by its design of the ...
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Opinion
Blockheads hit
More hedonism at a Chetwood Associates party and a clear sign the firm must be doing all right. Laurie Chetwood appeared to have swallowed the party planner’s handbook whole and deluged his guests with treats from frogs’ legs canapés to a fountain of liquid chocolate, waitresses dressed in RAF uniforms ...
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News
LDA’s Brixham plans a bit fishy
A £100 million masterplan for Brixham (south Devon) is set to be revised, following stinging criticism by a director of the town’s regeneration group.
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News
Biennale to spread
London’s first architectural biennale was such a success that the organisers are already talking about extending it beyond Clerkenwell in two years’ time.
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