All Building Design articles in 26 November 2004
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Technical
Trouble at the top
Roofs are the site of many a battle between aspiration and the cold reality of a cost plan. There is no designer whose aspirations have not at some point fallen prey to the machinations of the bean counters.
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OpinionSuzi Towel
Come on, architects — let’s see more of you in Fatbusters T-shirts, fighting the flab for a healthier Culture
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Technical
Pyramid scheme
We unfold the mystery of Egypt’s new Grand Museum proposal by Heneghan Peng
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NewsRising out of the waves
A 40-storey residential tower on Brighton seafront, designed by Wilkinson Eyre, will be a beacon-like landmark for the east of the city, the architect claims.
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NewsMuseum revamp
Plans for a £70 million revamp of Edinburgh’s Royal Museum by Glasgow-based Gareth Hoskins Architects and New York-based exhibition designer Ralph Appelbaum have been unveiled.The fabric of the 1866 building will be upgraded, access and movement throughout the museum will be improved. New spaces, including a multimedia performance and learning ...
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TechnicalWaves and means
A dramatic roof gives the Wales Assembly presence among its neighbours, writes Pamela Buxton
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Review
Radar: Matthew Priestman
Books I’m reading After the Empire:The Breakdown of the American Order by Emmanuel Todd and The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad by Fareed Zakaria. I find fiction problematic, but have read Under the Skin by Michel Faber, a mix of horror and poetry. I’ve got teenagers, ...
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NewsLessons in lucre
Any architect can rake in the cash, says management guru Robert White. We brought six architects to talk to him about their finances
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NewsLearning pod
KSS Design Group has completed its campus for South East Essex College of Arts. The £52 million building, in Southend-on-Sea, replaces two former campus sites and features an eight-storey atrium space clad in ETFE cushions. The atrium houses a distinctive blood-red, 250-seat space, known as The Pod, which is completely ...
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Opinion
Inspired teaching
I was interested to see your piece on art teacher Robin Noscoe’s design for a cricket pavilion/ open-air theatre being listed (Concrete Boots November 12). I was one of the “band of merry pupils” who assisted in its construction, at Canford School in Dorset, in the mid-sixties.
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Opinion
Held to ransom
Re “Crackdown on Foreign architects” (News November 5), I would not have expected this from a branch of the UK government that effectively has monopoly control over the profession.
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News
Planning system at stake, Greenside inquiry warned
The public inquiry into the demolition of the celebrated modernist home Greenside began this week with English Heritage claiming the integrity of the entire planning system was at stake.
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Opinion
Freedom suit split
Concerning the lawsuit filed by a Yale architecture student (News November 12), who claims his design was used as the basis for the design of the Freedom Towers, it separates Daniel Libeskind’s contributions (the height, the shape of the spire to echo the the Statue of Liberty’s torch) from David ...
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Opinion
Lie detector
In your article (News November 19) concerning Arb’s accusation that BT is wrongly listing individuals as architects, you quote a BT spokesman as saying that “it is up to the architects not to lie to us”. He is describing the people concerned as architects, which if they are lying they ...
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Opinion
Yearning for the old school days
Zoë Blackler’s editorial (November 19) misses the point, which is that architectural education, as we have known it since the 1958 Oxford Conference, and the universities’ research assessment exercise are incompatible.
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Opinion
Crate waste
I was discouraged to find another potential worry for those who care about timber.
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News
Prince Charles slams ‘wow factor’
Prince of Wales locks horns with deputy prime minister over ‘adolescent obsession with being modern’
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