All Building Design articles in 23 September 2005
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Opinion
Story of structure
With reference to Ellis Woodman (Soapbox, 16 September), it is study of structure that links architectural history to design, but neither is structure much taught in schools of architecture. Gropius’s “inner logic” did not always extend to his construction but the restored Bauhaus curtainwall lives on as his structural and ...
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ReviewSkinheads and me
In the summer of 1972, on the last day of school, the sound of Alice Cooper’s Schools Out seemed to follow me as I walked to the bus-stop on my journey home to freedom. What I was not aware of at the time was that this summer was about to ...
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Opinion
Shipwrecked?
There is more to the Little Britain yachting event, sponsored by BD, than just sailing. After a day on the waves it is always nice to relax over a light ale or two in the evening. But you have to be careful you don’t go too far or you might ...
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Opinion
When in Roma...
With reference to your editorial in BD 16 September, the sensibility of Italian architecture is firmly rooted in its sense of place. Perhaps the greatest exponent and exporter of this is the Renzo Piano Building Workshop. It at least acknowledges context, local/regional tradition, culture, environment and climate. Sadly the globalisation ...
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Opinion
Skewed priorities
Not only is Arb constantly seeking to expand its powers to control the way architects go about their legitimate business, it is failing to fulfil one of its two statutory duties — protection of title.
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News
Power play
- Battersea Power Station’s iconic chimneys could be preserved, according to the Twentieth Century Society and the World Monument Fund. The two bodies are fighting proposals by developer Parkview to demolish the chimneys.- Poundbury residents are fighting proposals for a new block of flats, the subject of a public inquiry, ...
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NewsPeople
- A mass bike ride of about 300 architects (above) took place last Wednesday through the centre of London in memory of architect Richard Feilden, a senior partner with Feilden Clegg Bradley Architects, who died last January.- Mike Gwilliam, director of planning and transport at the South East England Regional ...
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News
Is Richard Rogers noteworthy?
The man who successfully campaigned to put 19th century prison reformer Elizabeth Fry on the back of the £5 note is lobbying the EU to immortalise architect Richard Rogers’ European Court of Human Rights at Strasbourg on the back of the €500 banknote.
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News
Wembley sinks into nastiness
Head architect on the troubled Wembley Stadium project has told BD that the atmosphere on the mega-project is unpleasant and confrontational.
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NewsSpotcheck: West Midlands
- On the Make A planning application has been submitted for a 17-storey mixed-use tower (right), designed by Ken Shuttleworth’s practice Make, to complete Birmingham’s Mailbox development. Plans for the 46,000sq m site off Commercial Street include a rooftop restaurant, apartments, a 50-bed boutique hotel, and offices, all held within ...
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OpinionJanet Stree-Pooter
This week’s diary is by Janet Stree-Pooter — social commentator, television personality and champion of all architecture that’s not boring.
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Opinion
Pedalling ideas
Curious mental image #1: Richard Rogers pedalling furiously on his exercise bike while talking to BD on his mobile phone about national housing policy. The man is a legend.
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Opinion
House style
You report that the “country house” clause of PPS7 is about to be tested(News, September 16).
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Opinion
House proud
Open House Day is a lovely, brilliant thing that should never be taken for granted. The event is genuinely popular and for at least one day a year people across the capital take an interest in architecture. This year Boots visited James Stirling and James Gowan’s seminal 1950s flats on ...
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News
Minerva Tower put on hold
Grimshaw’s Minerva Tower will not be built until the developers have secured a major pre-let, it emerged this week.
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NewsHit and miss
- Urban Initiatives has won planning permission for Edge Lane (pictured), a public realm scheme on the edge of Liverpool which will be built in time for the Capital of Culture celebrations in 2008.- It will cost £1.3 million to fix the problems on Grimshaw’s Bath Spa, according to project ...
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Opinion
PII hike hurts
The hike in the minimum level of PII being considered by Arb will hand more commissions for small domestic work to the under-qualified and unqualified.