All Building Design articles in 23 July 2004 – Page 3

  • News

    Councillors armed to tackle Nimbys

    2004-07-23T00:00:00Z

    Local councillors who refuse to back high-density development because they think it will lose the Nimby vote have been issued with a kit to win them over.

  • News

    Architect jailed for child porn

    2004-07-23T00:00:00Z

    An architect has been jailed for nine months for possession of child pornography.

  • Opinion

    Arbs secret society must be challenged

    2004-07-23T00:00:00Z

    Regarding the article on Arb’s desire to remove democratically elected members without reference back to the membership (News July 9), the board appears to wish to turn itself into a secret society, hiding behind its ever-changing remit. No wonder the profession’s elected member, Ian Salisbury, is so frustrated by this ...

  • News

    Alsop hits back: Get off my cloud

    2004-07-23T00:00:00Z

    Will Alsop angrily struck out at Liverpool City Council and its partners this week for pulling the plug on his controversial Fourth Grace scheme.

  • News

    Exams shock: almost half fail at De Montfort

    2004-07-23T00:00:00Z

    University of Central England forced to suspend course after 90% of students fail part I

  • News

    End of the iconic age?

    2004-07-23T00:00:00Z

    Black week for star architects as public funding bodies turn against ‘Golden Banana’, ‘Spiral’ and ‘Cloud’

  • News

    Nightingales African outpost to be PFI design engine room

    2004-07-23T00:00:00Z

    Nightingale Associates is to farm out UK health and education design to its new office in South Africa. It recently set up a permanent five-strong studio in Cape Town after director Matt Audinwood moved there with his family.

  • News

    Adjayes big idea

    2004-07-23T00:00:00Z

    David Adjaye’s Idea Store in east London has opened to the public. The new library offers free Internet access, courses and thousands of books, CDs and DVDs to hire. The building is part of a plan by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets to replace its existing libraries with modern ...

  • Technical

    In detail 15: City & County Museum, Lincoln

    2004-07-23T00:00:00Z

    Located on a site designated as a scheduled ancient monument on the hill below Lincoln Cathedral, the museum uses self-compacting concrete (SCC) extensively to deal with complex geometries and to achieve a very high quality surface finish. The piled foun-dations reuse the slab and some existing piles of a demolished ...