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All Building Design articles in 29 April 2005 – Page 2
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Opinion
Meeting the code
Following your report that I was not allowed to attend the ODPM consultation about the Sustainable Buildings Code at CIRIA last Friday (News April 22), I managed to gain access to the meeting and stayed for an hour before going on to another meeting about sustainable housing.I raised the issue ...
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TechnicalThe Rem & Cecil show
They’re architecture’s most famous double act. Architect Rem Koolhaas and structural engineer Cecil Balmond have built showstopping buildings from Portugal to LA. Graham Bizley asked them about their 18-year marriage
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News
Developers line up for Elephant & Castle
Southwark council has drawn up a shortlist of major developers for the £1.5 billion regeneration of Elephant & Castle in south London.
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News
Retrial for manslaughter case
A council architect accused of the manslaughter of seven people in the UK’s worst outbreak of legionnaires’ disease is to face a retrial.
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Opinion
Caravan jam
So Peter Smith thinks Ken Livingstone is on another planet. Nothing new in that.But where is Green Ken going to source all his London building materials? John Prescott is covering the 35-mile radius in multi-storey caravans.
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News
Camden planner clings on
King’s Cross decision-maker holds on to control of council committee but faces scrutiny of Standards Board
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Opinion
Power trip building proves a bumpy ride
What started me writing about the edifice complex was a photograph published in the Scotsman midway between the two Iraq wars. It showed Saddam Hussein, in his British army surplus sweater and beret, surrounded by a cluster of henchmen with interchangeable moustaches, lost in wonder at the sight of a ...
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NewsBridge of lights
Steven Lenczner Architects has won planning permission for a bold art installation on Wandsworth Bridge in London. The four light sculptures, placed on existing plinths, change colour according to the level of the tide, and are designed to create a landmark for traffic crossing the bridge. The scheme won permission ...
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Opinion
Concrete Boots
Little & Large showWhen you meet famous people in real life they are often a lot shorter than you expected. The camera lens seems to favour short people with large heads, like Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman. This picture of Grand Designs presenter Kevin McCloud with US landscape architect Martha ...
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FeaturesA life in books
From public enemy to elder statesman, Colin St John Wilson is revealed in a new biography
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ReviewBillboards and me
I’ve always enjoyed lifting up carpets and looking behind things, and a lot of my photography is about looking at day-to-day things differently to how they are presented.
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Opinion
Green dream begins at home
I was delighted to read Kate Macintosh’s imaginative ideas for generating electricity from coastal defence systems (Letters April 22).The other area we have to look at is how to conserve more energy in existing buildings, particularly housing. It is essential that they are thermally upgraded, and this is not something ...
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Opinion
In the beginning
Mike Nightingale seems to suggest that it is acceptable for contractors to compete for PFI projects after the architect has been appointed (Talkbox April 22). Has he read anything about Constructing Excellence? There should be one contractor, one architect and one of everything else working on the project from the ...
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Opinion
Lattice beef
Last week’s BD featured two lattice or lace-related buildings: the completed Le Bon Infant in Paris and the proposed Nottingham Centre for Visual & Live Art. The former applied a complex laser-cut, stainless-steel lattice cladding to externally unify a grouping of existing and new buildings; the latter will incorporate external ...
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Opinion
Off to a bad start
The introduction to your article on St Paul’s, Deptford (Works April 15) was a misleading and depressing start to what was otherwise a decent and balanced article. The impression conveyed is that no one at the church wanted the project to go ahead; that no one was pleased when it ...
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Building StudyFirst Look: College wedged back into community
RMJM has submitted this £20 million development for North Glasgow College for planning permission .
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News
Atkins hit by chow mein claim
A Welsh firm that makes Chinese ready meals for supermarket giant Sainsbury’s is suing multidisciplinary practice Atkins, claiming design faults on a new factory led to the failure of its refrigeration system.
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