All Building Design articles in 23 April 2004 – Page 2
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Opinion
Growing pains
Ken Shuttleworth knows a thing or two about office space, having designed half of the landmark schemes in London lately. But even in the name of research, isn’t moving his own office four times in just three-and-a-half months pushing it a bit? His new office, Make, will shortly be ...
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Opinion
Hey good looking
Congratulations on dragging BD’s layout into the 21st century. It hadn’t changed much in the 30 years since it first appeared as a tabloid (which I guess says quite a lot for the original concept) – but you have made the most of the use of colour, big pictures ...
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News
Skills plan gets short shrift
Egan proposal for national centre to teach built-environment professionals "general skills" raises doubts
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NewsGlass grub of Gateshead
The last of more than 3,000 panels was fitted to the roof of Foster & Partners’ spectacular £70 million Sage Gateshead building on Monday, a major milestone towards completion of the arts centre.The 1,700-seat music hall, commissioned by Gateshead Council, overlooks the Tyne Bridge and is due to be completed ...
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NewsMind the gap
Staff skills are a problem for one in three architects. We asked both new and seasoned professionals why
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Opinion
Woolly jargon will not plug skills gap
Learning from John Egan is rarely fun. His grandiose visions of a unified construction industry are more about committee work, strangely-titled industry bodies and woolly concepts than actually making great architecture. His latest contribution: a plan to solve the skills crisis so the government's Sustainable Communities Plan investment isn't wasted ...
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NewsA vision of the Future in Naples
Future Systems has rekindled its collaboration with artist Anish Kapoor with plans for a subway station in the Italian city of Naples revealed exclusively in BD this week. The collaborators have moulded rudimentary but exciting models to show possible entrances to the new station, which is due to start on ...
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News
Foster's tower power
Foster's and Wilkinson Eyre compete for first of the tall buildings around Centre Point
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News
Fight for Spitalfields goes on
Campaigners against redevelopment of London’s world-famous Spitalfields Market have vowed to fight on after Tower Hamlets council last week approved plans that would see the indoor market filled with four glass pavilions.
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Opinion
Essex lies
I was horrified to learn from Concrete Boots (April 2) that I was quoted as using the term “Basildonisation”. I have never used this word, nor have I compared Basildon unfavourably in any way; I do not know Basildon well enough to comment on its merits or demerits. Clearly, the ...
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NewsSpotcheck: The East
A proposal for the tallest building in Suffolk has been submitted to planners. John Lyall Architects' 23-storey mixed-use tower in the Cranfield Mills area of Ipswich has met with opposition from The Ipswich Society because of its height. Its chairman Jack Chapman told BD the existing scheme would dominate the ...
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Opinion
Wembley detour
Remember walking down Wembley Way to a big match? The palpable sense of procession towards a national icon. Let's hope things don't change. Boots hears whispers that Quintain, the developer of the new "pedway" from Wembley Park tube station to the stadium, is keen for its competing architects to lead ...
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Opinion
On deaf ears
An extraordinary state of affairs has recently arisen in respect of Arb. Last July, the professional organisations were consulted on possible amendments to the composition of Arb's professional conduct committee. The Association of Consultant Architects suggested a Parliamentary Committee should investigate Arb and the Architects Act 1997.However, on March 11, ...
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Opinion
Dairy delight
In response to Richard Weston’s piece, “The divine bovine (Backspace April 8), we thought that, a copy of the “Three Cows” short-listed entry for the Burrell Gallery competition might help to illustrate the point of his article. The illustration depicts one seated cow, containing the main entrance and ancillary accommodation, ...
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Opinion
Golden community opportunity
John Prescott has a golden opportunity to create a national centre dedicated to building sustainable communities that includes not only planners, engineers, developers and councillors, but also housing and social administrators as well as social scientists. Much is commonly assumed about the mistakes of the past 50 years, but ...
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ReviewGet out of the city
Mark Cousins reports on a show that urges people to explore the Scottish countryside
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News
Cambridge farms out housing
Council plans to build bulk of its affordable homes outside the city
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Features
Fear and loathing in the boy zone
Did you know that the most important thing in a construction contract is not getting the building in on time and within budget, but machismo?So women architects are in an interesting position. Whether we like it or not, the contract turns all of us architects into policemen, but sexism adds ...
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