All Building Design articles in 26 March 2004 – Page 2
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Foster and Nouvel unite
Norman Foster and Jean Nouvel are to collaborate on a major new office and retail development in the City of London. Nouvel and Foster have been appointed by Legal & General to lead the redevelopment of the company’s 1.2ha Bucklesbury House site close to Mansion House and the Bank of ...
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Opinion
Price fight
Still with Hadid. Right-wing US magazine The New Republic heralded her as “an awful choice for the Pritzker” this week. In a controversial editorial, The New Republic says the choice is a “fatal debasement of an award purportedly about rewarding excellence, not political correctness or trendiness”. Well, you can’t please ...
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Raise your game, says Ferguson
Architects are not doing enough to produce high-quality designed buildings, RIBA president George Ferguson will tell the profession next month.
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Litigation fears hit public space
Cabe Space this week warned that compensation claims were costing councils more than £100 million a year, draining cash from vital public space schemes; while a fear of litigation was turning much of the outdoors into a fun-free soulless place.
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New Islington lake faces funding threat
A Will Alsop-designed lake expected to form the centrepiece of a much-vaunted new community in Manchester is in doubt after British Waterways refused to maintain it unless a lump sum, which could run into "several million pounds", is given to cover its expenses.
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Hadid toasts first English job
Zaha Hadid has celebrated winning the prestigious Pritzker Prize this week by securing her first commission in England.
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Opinion
A cool sum
More evidence has come to light of the lavish fittings of the new Scottish Parliament building at Holyrood this week after the revelation that the 92 toilets in the building cost more than £30,000 a piece, a total of £2.9 million. The latest luxury to emerge in the building, which ...
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ReviewAnd now for something completely different...
Twenty years after Archigram closed its office, an exhibition of its work finally reaches the Design Museum. Kester Rattenbury previews the show, and finds the surviving members still very active
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RIBA set to lobby for competitions code
The RIBA is hoping to persuade the government to adopt its own competitions procedures across all public procurement as part of a bid to stamp out what it sees as exploitation of architects stemming from badly run contests.
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New EH church powers could stifle future work
Work on 20,000 listed places of worship worth tens of millions of pounds a year for architects could be lost under government proposals to give English Heritage more power over religious buildings.
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Opinion
Changing rooms
Do you live in a crummy run-down semi-detached house in central London? If you do and can leave the house completely empty for six months, you could play host to famous sculptor Gregor Schneider. The Venice Biennale prize-winning sculptor is looking for two identical, vacant suburban homes to take over ...
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Opinion
Cabe: no mystery
I would like to correct two misrepresentations in your coverage of the forthcoming audit of Cabe’s procedures for dealing with conflicts of interest (BD March 19). First, your leader referred to Cabe’s design review process as “mysterious”. Since Cabe started work in 1999, we have reviewed several hundred projects ...
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HLM UK buy-out
HLM Design’s UK business has been acquired by its directors in a management buy-out, after the US-owned architectural firm went into receivership. The new company will trade as HLM Architects and retain the 120 staff in its existing offices in London, Sheffield, Glasgow and Guildford.
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Student bursaries
The RIBA’s Education Fund is offering bursaries and grants for up to 30 students for the next academic year. Applications from students in their final year of study or from groups under-represented in architecture, such as women and ethnic minorities, are encouraged. Send a large, stamped addressed envelope to RIBA ...
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Eastern Europe lures brownfield expert
Jeff Kirby, founder of brownfield regeneration specialist Urban Research Lab (URL), has left to invest millions of pounds in eastern European projects.
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OpinionWhy don't these Brits win YAYA?
It's the fourth year in a row a non-UK architect has won the Young Architect of the Year Award. Why are our bright young things losing out? Karen Glaser interviews young practices and some YAYA judges for answers
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Penzance fund boost
A project by McInnes Usher McKnight Architects to renovate Newlyn Art Gallery and create a new exhibition space at the Exchange building in Penzance, Cornwall, has moved a step closer after the Arts Council awarded the scheme £1.2 million. The gallery now has three-quarters of the funding in place.
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