All Building Design articles in 28 May 2004 – Page 2
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Technical
Technicalities: The M&E generation
The mechanical and electrical industry has been around for the best part of a century, so why is it that the duties of the building services engineer are so often the cause of confusion, acrimony and the frequent lament: "M&E engineers never draw enough detail"? In 1997, a cross-industry group ...
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News
Foster in running for Harvard
Foster & Partners is in the running to masterplan the future development of Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts.
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NewsFootball star
HOK Sport’s €120 million (£80 million) new stadium in Lisbon, Portugal, will host England’s first game in the Euro 2004 football tournament next month. The 65,500-seat stadium, called the Estadio da Luz, or Stadium of Light, is the venue for the England v France game on June 16. The stadium, ...
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News
Scottish teachers feel unconsulted over PFI
A survey has revealed that teachers in Scotland feel they were not properly consulted on the first phase of a £2 billion Public Private Partnership/PFI scheme to build and refurbish Scottish schools.
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News
Indemnity insurance premiums set to fall
Professional indemnity insurance premiums are set to fall this year because new underwriters are entering the market, it emerged this week.
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News
Ken 'failed to meet ministers'
Liberal Democrat candidate for London mayor Simon Hughes has accused Ken Livingstone of failing to hold a single meeting with either the chancellor of the Exchequer or the deputy prime minister since his election four years ago.
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ReviewEye opener
What image best sums up London to you? Ten architects have their say next month when they take over the windows of Selfridges on Oxford Street to create Greetings from London, an installation organised by the Architecture Foundation. NL Architects envisages a new take on the London Eye (pictured), while ...
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OpinionEva Jiricna
The government has invited the cream of young eastern European architectural talent to workshops on practising in the UK. Jiricna, who hails from the Czech Republic, will talk at the V&A next week about the emerging talent
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News
Page & Park refurb for Dundee galleries
Major alterations are to be made by Page & Park to George Gilbert Scott’s McManus Galleries in the centre of Dundee.
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News
Grimshaw dispels trophy fear
Nicholas Grimshaw has dispelled fears he is being used as a trophy architect on the redevelopment of the London Stock Exchange tower in the City.
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Opinion
Other dimension
From one international superstar architect on a different planet to another. Daniel Libeskind waxes lyrical about his Danish Jewish Museum in a description of the scheme on his website. One particularly impenetrable sentence reads: “One of its internal planes, Exodus, is here turned to an urban space in which water ...
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Opinion
Ripe for details
While not wishing to cast aspersions on the laudable aims of the recent study of race (News May 21), it is worth noting that there is a broad spectrum of socio-economic, geographical and temperamental characteristics covered by the term “white male”. At the risk of appearing flippant, a fruit and ...
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News
Lift process ‘led to lower design quality’
Fears that the introduction of a private finance process has badly affected the design quality of a north London surgery and community centre have been partly recognised by the local authority.
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Building StudyFirst look: Libeskind’s Danish integration
Daniel Libeskind’s distinctive, angular architecture has been integrated into a 400-year-old building for the new Danish Jewish Museum.
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Opinion
Crossrail towers
We would like to correct an error in BD’s recent story, “Foster’s tower power” (News April 23). Crossrail is not recruiting commercial architects to work up ideas for three new towers as part of the development of Tottenham Court Road station. No such towers are planned.
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NewsCrossing the line
Station designs are being worked up in readiness for Crossrail to go before Parliament. Damian Arnold takes a sneak preview
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News
Government to raise cost of planning
The government is set to force all councils to introduce a new range of planning application fees that would increase the cost of making a planning application.
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OpinionDeciphering the code
Championed by the Prince of Wales, are design codes our salvation or defeat? An expansion of Northampton by Edaw will be an early test, writes Ellis Woodman; while Will Alsop and Paul Murrain argue the broader case
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News
Koolhaas China doubt
Speculation is mounting that Rem Koolhaas’s China Central Television headquarters in Beijing has been shelved by China’s leaders.
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