All Building Design articles in 21 May 2004 – Page 2
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News
Future living
Amin Taha Architects’ innovative house was one of six winners of RIBA London’s future housing competition. The scheme aims to create a modern version of the Georgian terrace, with housing along the edge of raised roads such as the Westway. The other winners were Annalie Riches, Silvia Ullmayer and Barti ...
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News
Foster's Selfridges scheme is scrapped
Selfridges has scrapped a £300 million redevelopment of its flagship Oxford Street store in London by Foster & Partners.
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News
Manchester firm poaches Piccadilly job
Manchester-based Stephenson Bell has poached a high-profile £24 million job from Gaunt Francis Architects.
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Features
Images at your fingertips
New software has been developed to make it simpler for practices to manage their digital archives.
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News
Profession fails on race
Cabe report highlights alienation and high drop-out rates among ethnic minority architecture students
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Technical
Schemes explore energy options
Our regulations expert on energy, off-site and Brussels' branding
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Features
Sharp End: Keep it to yourself
Being the architect to famous and wealthy clients may seem a dream job. While architects often bemoan their clients' lack of funding and the design compromises forced upon them, the architecturally astute rock star or rich family client has both acres of land and the money to indulge their passions.
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News
Emergency repairs to London theatre
John Rowe-Parr Architects has completed emergency repairs to the ceiling of London's Theatre Royal Haymarket after a freak accident brought plaster raining down on the audience at a performance of hit show When Harry Met Sally.
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News
MoD ditches modern methods
The Ministry of Defence has abandoned modern methods of construction on hundreds of new barracks because its military sites are too constrained.
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Opinion
Into the lions’ den
A public inquiry being held in a zoo? Wilkinson Eyre Architects’ scheme for a visitor centre at the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol is being challenged by local residents on road safety grounds, and, apparently, nearby Bristol Zoo really is the most convenient location for the two-day hearing.The other explanation, ...
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Opinion
Delft long overdue
I believe the Delft Declaration is long overdue (News and Editorial May 14). It is significant that Schosa chose Delft for the launch of this manifesto as the TU Delft has a long tradition of teaching carried out by the profession itself. Indeed, following a brief visit to the new ...
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News
Transatlantic deal gets UK foot in door
British architects have taken a step closer to being able to work uninhibited in the US after a transatlantic agreement was approved by the Architects Council for Europe (ACE).
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Opinion
Power crazy?
I get to the special report (BD May 14) — Zaha Hadid in the top five? — and wonder what exactly is going on. What is a "power broker"? Who are these judges, and what is this bizarre mix of businessmen, politicians, contractors, a retailer, a footballer and some living ...
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Review
Cracking Nelson's engima
Turner Prize-winning artist Mike Nelson has transformed an Oxford gallery with his enigmatic three-part installation Triple Bluff Canyon.
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Review
Jack Lenor Larsen: Creator and Collector
Jack Lenor Larsen: Creator and CollectorMerrell£28HB
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News
Cancer centre
Reiach & Hall Architects has won planning permission for a £10 million cancer research centre at Glasgow University. The glazed pavilion will provide laboratories and offices for 240 researchers from the university and Cancer Research UK at Garscube Estate, four miles west of the main university campus. The building is ...
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Opinion
Call the doctor
Architecture student and Dr Who fan Jake Theunissen has built a life-size Tardis in his back garden. The 28-year-old, who lives near Wrexham, built the plywood tribute to the Time Lord after downloading plans from the Internet. The model Tardis, which does not travel through time and is no bigger ...
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