All Building Design articles in 2 September 2005 – Page 2
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Fosters Great Court overshadows exhibits
Spatial design expert compares British Museum to ‘bad retail design’
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Spacelab’s cool HQ
London practice Spacelab UK has completed its largest project to date in Ilford, east London.
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Clients get cold feet over Part L delay
Government delay in implementing new building regulations for environmental performance is making major clients reluctant to commission new architecture.
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OpinionA challenge to the silent majority
Thank you for Zoe Blackler’s interview of Humphrey Lloyd, which frames nicely most of the points at issue.
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Opinion
Celebrity culture
There has been extensive discussion recently on the subject of the over-dominance of “celebrity in architecture” (Letters August 12). Celebrity of course has its connotations, invariably negative (especially when considering current popular culture). But where great minds are at work, surely the faces behind the building are as recognisably important ...
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NewsKurokawa’s capsule homes under threat
Homeowners in Kisho Kuro-kawa’s seminal modular housing project in Tokyo are so disgruntled with the building that they are plotting its demolition.
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Edinburgh campus slammed
Plans for a £50 million university campus in Edinburgh’s green belt have been dealt a blow after City of Edinburgh Council planners slammed the scheme’s design quality.
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OpinionConcrete Boots
Winchester architect Robert Adams has a motto on the wall of his office that reads: “Thunk Bug”.
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Roman bodies halt project
Discovery of remains delays work on Elephant & Castle flagship library conversion
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ReviewShacks in bleak landscapes
With just two days to go before the artworks for Alex Hartley’s latest exhibition need to be sent off for framing, the artist is holed up in his studio, a workshop-like space on a hidden and unexpectedly rural lane in residential north London.
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Birmingham spreads the word on regeneration
Birmingham City Council’s design adviser Philip Singleton has established a design forum to spread the city’s regeneration lesson across the country.Singleton decided to establish the City Design Forum after a high number of enquiries from other UK cities about Birmingham’s successful inner city regeneration projects.Birmingham has won praise for its ...
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Dozen architects needed to join our ‘Cool Wall’ contest
Exhibition 100% Detail and BD are looking for exciting new projects to debate in a quick-fire public forum.
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In Arb’s shadow
I was pleased to see that BD is following the fashionable trend of allowing printed images to bleed through the page and influence the reverse side. But was it intentional that Humphrey Lloyd’s ghostly image should appear from behind Dracula’s castle?I am beginning to think there is more to ...
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Foster and Pringle sign to aid charity
Norman Foster and new RIBA president Jack Pringle have signed up as founding trustees of a new charity aimed at sending architects into disaster areas to help with relief efforts.
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NewsPringle to look after his own
New RIBA president to stand up for architects, signalling end to predecessor’s outward-looking agenda
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BBC procurement process set to begin across 140 properties
The BBC announced plans this week to procure architects to work on construction projects across its UK portfolio of 140 properties.
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TechnicalHow we cracked it 12: Baby Blue bar, Albert Dock, Liverpool
Miles Falkingham of Union North explains how bespoke curved glass-reinforced concrete wall panels became the solution for subdividing a geometrically complex listed structure
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