All Building Design articles in 21 January 2005 – Page 3

  • Opinion

    Putting the boot in

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    To suggest buildings by Foster’s office at Gateshead and Alsop’s at Goldsmiths are “not architecture” simply because one BD critic has, as you put it, “stuck the boot in” is patently absurd. To leap from criticism to dismissal seems aggressively extreme.

  • News

    US firm beats UK stars to Creative Planet job

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    US practice William McDonough & Partners has beaten competition from Will Alsop and Grimshaw, among others, to design a groundbreaking new exhibition and collections centre in Wiltshire thought to be the largest in Europe.

  • News

    Dancing under the arch

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Atkins has unveiled striking designs for a hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia.

  • News

    All the worlds a stage

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    London-based practice Design Engine has been awarded equal first prize with three other practices in an international competition to design a new Elizabethan theatre in Gdansk, Poland.

  • Opinion

    All that glitters

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Does it come as a surprise to anybody, apart from a gullible jury, that Alsop’s surrealistic, flashy and seductive collages that made up his competition entry for Goldsmiths College are manifested as a dull box with a bow… a box with decoration signifying nothing. A lesson, hopefully, to ...

  • BDP’s Marlowe Academy will provide a civic place for the local community.
    News

    BDPs academy for everyone

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Construction has begun on BDP’s £23 million Marlowe Academy in Ramsgate, Kent.

  • BD’s Zoë Blackler signs up Hopkins managing director Bill Taylor to  the 50/50 Charter.
    News

    Top names join 50/50 campaign

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Hopkins and Grimshaw sign up, but Foster’s refuses

  • News

    Public housing orders up 32% in DTI report

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    The housing industry is still going from strength to strength and the faltering office sector is showing signs of a comeback, according to the latest construction order figures from the Department of Trade & Industry.

  • News

    50/50 Update: week 2

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    63 practices have signed up for the 50/50 Charter so far

  • Step 3
    Technical

    How we cracked it 01: Lens ceiling, Federal Courthouse, Phoenix, Arizona

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Luke Lowings explains an intriguing solution to the perennial problem of attaching glass panels in this ceiling project designed for Richard Meier’s Federal Courthouse