All Building Design articles in 23 April 2004 – Page 3
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FeaturesBlood in the boardroom
Despite events at Aukett and Eurotunnel, shareholder revolts are rare, explains David Littlefield
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News
Hitch for bill
John Prescott is facing a showdown with the House of Lords that could delay the proposed Planning Bill becoming law.
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News
West Country Zed bid flops
Bill Dunster’s bid to take his zero-carbon (Zed) housing concept to the West Country has come to nothing, the practice said this week.
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News
Betting on Beijing
Terry Farrell & Partners’ design for Beijing South Central train station is competing against schemes by London-based Weston Williamson Architects and French practice AREP . The station will be the largest in China and will serve 400,000 passengers a day. The three shortlisted practices are now adjusting their proposals in ...
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News
Hayward threat as South Bank speeds up
Allies & Morrison celebrated the go-ahead on almost £90 million of work at the Royal Festival Hall this week as a 16-year wait to start major works on the blighted South Bank Centre finally ended.
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NewsIconic houses held back from listing
Private homes by some of the most prestigious post-war architects have been held back from listing.
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Opinion
The art of Zen
How architecture happens: Malcolm Fraser was enjoying a contented afternoon in his Edinburgh office, listening to four second-hand Rod Stewart albums he had just bought for £2.50 when the phone started ringing and ringing… a local paper had unveiled Fraser's scheme for 150 Tibetan-style flagpoles on Edinburgh's Carlton Hill, with ...
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News
An architect's guide to the planning bill
The Planning Bill had its final Commons reading on Monday, and legislation is now round the corner. Karen Glaser rounds-up its measures
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NewsArchitect con-man jailed
A 71-year-old architect has been given a three-year jail sentence for defrauding a charity benefiting the elderly and disadvantaged out of £3.5 million.
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Opinion
Arb propaganda
Susan Ware invites your readers to take a look at a fuller version of her letter (April 2) on Arb's website. There, in an attempt to defend the indefensible from the well-directed criticism of Jack Pringle, she claims that a less secretive organisation is difficult to imagine.It speaks loudly of ...
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Features
My apple just got juicier
A production error cut short Jonathan Reeves' review of the Apple G5 last month. The rest follows, with a precis of his introduction
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NewsA&M to extend Bristol cathedral
Designs to extend Bristol cathedral were unveiled by Allies & Morrison this week.
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Opinion
Adult-only Egan
Architects are shuddering again at the thought of John Egan returning to the fray with his skills report this week. Memories of wrestling with his obsession with supply chain management came flooding back to designers at the Building Awards on Tuesday. Egan, it seems, is for adults only. “I wouldn’t ...
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NewsAnthroposophist Rex Raab dies at 90
One of the leading proponents of the anthroposophical movement, Rex Raab, has died aged 90.
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TechnicalIn detail 02: Bedford School Library
The library has a curved brick upper storey with a barrel vault roof. A long window at ground floor looks out on playing fields.
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