All Building Design articles in 23 September 2005 – Page 2
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Opinion
Rock grateness
New indie hot shots The Mystery Jets, who released the single You Can’t Fool Me Dennis this week, have an architect among their ranks. Guitarist Henry Harrison is an architect and runs a designer fireplace outfit called The Platonic Fireplace Company. The NME describes their music as “a prog space ...
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Opinion
Get it right...
Further to your article “Arb plans double cost hike” (News, 16 September), in relation to PII levels I told your reporter what Arb planned to do was to look at all the information and then make a decision. That’s what it did. No increase was planned, as your headline reported, ...
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Opinion
Hate mail to Gehry
Many of us in Brighton are hopeful that Piers Gough will take his own advice: “If I were you I would immediately cancel your job, get very poor and then get a Frank Gehry [affordable] flat” at the King Alfred site in Hove (News, 16 September). We would then at ...
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News
First UK public project for Sauerbruch Hutton
Anglo-German practice Sauerbruch Hutton Architects has won its first public project in the UK.
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Opinion
The RIBA has failed us as a guardian
It is the latest sorry instalment in the story of this country’s refusal to properly guard the archives of our greatest architects.
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News
Jools takes jazz to Edinburgh
TV host and musician Jools Holland is to open a jazz club in Edinburgh in a former BBC recording studio.
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Opinion
Demolition man
Film director Ken Loach is a man with a mission. If he had unlimited funds he would demolish “all the post-war centres and out-of-town shopping malls” in England, he told the Guardian. He would then replace them with “town centres on a human scale”. Who would of thought class crusader ...
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News
EH rejects cinema listing
English Heritage has refused to list a thirties cinema in Bradford, leaving it open to demolition. The former cinema, by William Illingworth, is on a site earmarked for redevelopment in Will Alsop’s masterplan for the town.
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News
Sustainable pledge at Elephant & Castle
The £1.5 billion redevelopment of Elephant & Castle will set a new standard of sustainability, Southwark council has pledged.
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Building StudyFirst Look: How this garden grows in Cambridge
Cambridge practice 5th Studio has unveiled designs for an innovative timber house in the back garden of an existing Victorian home.
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TechnicalBright lights, brighter people
New research into how we work is helping create more effective office environments.
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Opinion
No fixing it for Bob
Bob the Builder is not popular among BD readers. One reader wrote to us saying that he was “hopping mad” over a recent episode which portrayed an architect as “uncaring and unsympathetic”. So when we received a press release inviting us to promote a Bob the Builder Drive and Build ...
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News
Big names lose Wear contest
Small practice Spence Associates has beaten Frank Gehry, Wilkinson Eyre and Marks Barfield to design a £43 million bridge over the River Wear at Sunderland.
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News
Council to tear down Aylesbury
A huge council estate in south London is set to be demolished and rebuilt because refurbishment would be too expensive.
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News
Ashford plan: ‘a dash for trash’
Whistleblowers warn of government pressure and claim Sustainable Communities Plan is unachievable
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NewsFeilden Clegg Bradley in clash over Derby arts centre
Feilden Clegg Bradley Architects clashed with conservationists this week over its designs for a flagship arts centre in Derby.
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News
Masters of art
Will Alsop and Zaha Hadid are competing to design a new art gallery in Edmonton, Canada. The two architects unveiled their designs for the gallery this week, which will be on public display in Edmonton until November. A panel of building and technical experts will evaluate the designs and the ...
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ReviewGray areas remain unexplored
A retrospective on pioneering modernist Eileen Gray needs more explanation, says Catherine Croft
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