All Building Design articles in 21 January 2005 – Page 2

  • Opinion

    Selling out to the star gazers

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Is an architect’s star status the result of their unmatched ability as a designer, or is it developed and maintained as a marketing tool? There is a growing feeling in the profession that it is becoming too much the latter.

  • News

    ‘More vision needed’ for Thames Gateway

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Panel member Will Alsop leads call for London design committee to look at wider picture

  • News

    Shed KM stuck in fund mire

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Salford housing plan put on hold

  • Corbusier’s Plan Voisin
    News

    Finding our feminine side

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Without female empathy, architecture is macho and impersonal. We argue that we need a better balance

  • Opinion

    False icons

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Yes, we are losing sight of architecture.

  • Cube Design’s £4.2 million Innovation centre at Silverstone, which opens at the end of the month.
    News

    Spotcheck - East Midlands

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Regional triumphs BDP, Rick Mather and John McAslan were honoured in RIBA’s EM Awards 2004 for regional excellence. BDP’s Nottingham Breast Institute received the top accolade, while Rick Mather’s Lincoln School of Architecture and John McAslan’s 78-80 Derngate in Northampton were both highly commended. Also honoured were David Morley Architects, ...

  • Opinion

    Just too dull

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Your 50/50 campaign is idealistic and stupid — you cannot simply impose a gender quota — and it doesn’t examine sufficiently the reasons why there are so few women in architecture. Maybe much of architectural practice is just dull, and of no interest to women, who are often more creative ...

  • News

    London debut for Koolhaas

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Rem Koolhaas is bringing his distinctive masterplanning style to Britain after winning his first major project in London.

  • Ron Arad’s view of the lifts
    News

    The inn crowd

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    A menagerie of star architects has been assembled to create the ultimate boutique hotel. Design genius or freakish Hotel Frankenstein?

  • News

    New collapse danger

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    BD uncovers risk of Ronan-Point-style disaster on third and largest London estate as council orders probe

  • 10 Palace Gate
    Building Study

    Coates, the comeback kid

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Flamboyant in his time, but often underrated today, modern architect Wells Coates is back in the limelight with the restoration of his three signature buildings.

  • Features

    The Charettes

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Robert Thompson

  • Opinion

    Wasted chances

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    How extremely refreshing to read Robert Booth’s editorial (January 14) — a rare critical initiative challenging some of our big names.

  • Filming a scene from the 2001 film Swordfish, in which the villain Gabriel Shear, played by John Travolta, escapes on a bus, which is then airlifted away by helicopter.
    Review

    A city warped by celluloid

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Chris Hall sees a documentary examining the way Los Angeles portrays itself in its movies

  • News

    The car's the star

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Future Systems has won a competition to design a new Maserati Museum in Modena, Italy.

  • Opinion

    Sweet and sour for Cambridge school

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    The recent campaign in support of Cambridge University’s department of architecture was brilliantly successful in achieving its aim, to prevent closure.

  • News

    Norfolk visually illiterate bumpkins spark fury

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    A sleepy Norfolk village has been labelled “philistine central” after the local council rejected plans for a new modern home.

  • News

    Mystery buyer will build Tate Tower

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    The architect behind a controversial tower planned close to Tate Modern in London is confident his design will be realised, despite the recent sale of the site to a mystery developer.

  • News

    Long & Kentish extension to British Libary in for planning

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    A major extension to the British Library in north London has been entered for planning permission.

  • Opinion

    Concrete Boots

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Will’s worldWill Alsop this week revealed what he does all day. In a short diary of his working week, featured in the Daily Telegraph, that eerily echoed the diary of BD’s own Ian Martin, Alsop revealed that his hectic day begins with a swim followed by a trip to his ...