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All Building Design articles in 25 June 2004 – Page 3
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News
Tax breaks to be granted for sustainability
New tax breaks could be granted on products that improve the sustainability of buildings.
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Building StudyAt home with Feilden Clegg Bradley
David Morley visits two housing projects built around courtyards
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Opinion
Blame the builders
My blood boiled when I read the article headed "Architects 'blithe' on safety" (News May 14).The National Audit Office criticised architects for "failing to design out safety risks". MP Edward Leigh supported this view as did other stakeholders.We are all fully aware of our responsibilities. However, I am regularly on ...
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Opinion
Biennale bonanza
The London Architecture Biennale kicked off with real intent on Saturday. The intent seemed to be to puzzle and/or delight the public with juxtaposition.There inside the atmospheric post-industrial Farmiloes building — the centre of the Biennale — were a string of domestic garden sheds, while outside in the street, on ...
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News
Nimbys become Imbys
Housing surveys find that local residents would welcome high-density development in the South-east
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News
Corrosion risk hits Battersea
Plans to redevelop Battersea Power Station have hit a new snag after major problems were found with the structure of the four chimneys.
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ReviewBasket cases
They trained as stonemasons, but German artists Wolfgang Winter and Bertold Hörbelt now use recycled bottle crates as the building blocks for their translucent pavilion installations. Their first major UK show opens tomorrow at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Here they have built two houses that bisect the gallery window and can ...
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Opinion
Biker bashing
For one reason or another Concrete Boots compared the new-look BD to a Harley Davidson rather than a Triumph, a few weeks ago. This didn't go down well with one or two most valued readers. William Murray of Wordsearch (which organised the London Architecture Biennale, see below) wrote in to ...
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Opinion
Backyards available to good listeners
Most readers will guffaw at the suggestion that the British public's "not in my back yard" mentality is becoming a thing of the past. Surely there are too many militant local campaign groups and retired judges with little better to do than oppose architects' schemes.
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News
Ashford people back density
A 10,000-home scheme in Ashford, Kent, will be the biggest housing development in Britain since the expansion of Milton Keynes in the 1960s. Masterplanner Urban Initiatives met local residents to give them three growth options of varying density. There was strong support for high-density housing around the train station.
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News
Architecture’s folk hero dies
The American-born architectural scholar Gene Raskin, who combined study of architecture with writing a bestselling folk song, has died.
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NewsArchitecture's longest day
Is architecture accessible to all? Zoë Blackler goes in search of answers with a one-day blitz of Architecture Week and London Biennale events
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News
Architecture poll reveals public’s modern malaise
It’s official: British people do not like modern architecture.
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News
Appeal overturns Cornish village’s bar on modernism
London practice Evans Davies has won a major planning victory that could open the door to modern new housing in the affluent seaside village of Rock, Cornwall.
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News
Development deal agreed for Dome site masterplan
A £4 billion deal was signed last week to redevelop the Greenwich Peninsula in south-east London to Terry Farrell & Partners’ masterplan.
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TechnicalIn detail 11: The Public, West Bromwich
A self-supporting envelope encloses a single massive volume. Inside, a splayed tapering steel H-frame supports the roof, a mid-level “table” floor and all the independent forms which populate the space. “Jellybean” windows appear to have been cut out of the facade to reveal the inner space.
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News
Ball wins £1.8m Eden payout
Architect and co-founder of the Eden Project Jonathan Ball has won a £1.8 million legal settlement.
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