All Building Design articles in 30 April 2004 – Page 2
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Features
Speaking the same masterplan language
You have probably had enough Lost in Translation conversations to last you a lifetime, but I am going to engage you in yet another. And I make no apology for it. This film is a good metaphor for masterplanning.
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News
Ritchie's towers go to inquiry
The planning inquiry into Ian Ritchie Architects' controversial redevelopment of one of the most prominent sites in Europe began this week.
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News
...but GMW is still in race
GMW’s shortlisted competition entry for Wuhan airport in China has two piers on either side of the main terminal building to symbolise welcoming arms to international visitors. The terminal proposed by the practice is clad in blue metallic aluminium with a snakeskin-like pattern. The red structural tubular elements are exposed ...
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Opinion
Glass worship
OK, from venal to divine inspiration. An architect has inspired a West Country vicar to imitate David Blaine’s glass-box stunt to raise money for a new scheme. This Saturday the Rev Nigel Done will suspend himself in a glass box for 12 hours to raise the £125,000 needed to realise ...
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Opinion
Spin the Gherkin
He’s versatile, that Norman Foster, as he was at pains to stress at the opening of the Swiss Re building this week. Chatting to Swiss radio, the Lord of the Gherkin asked the reporter which spin he would like on the building: “I can explain it emotionally; I can explain ...
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News
New study to map out high-density Gateway
Joint GLA/LDA study to back up Richard Rogers' call to up housing in Thames Gateway
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ReviewUnswayed by the flock
Julian Lewis enjoys a monograph on landscaping polymath Peter Shepheard.
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NewsFloating homes
Glen Howells Architects’ mixed-use scheme to provide 180 one-and two-bedroom apartments above commercial and retail space on Bromsgrove Street in Birmingham is about to go in for planning. The facade will be modular facing brick with full-height glazed sliding doors serving each apartment. The glazing on the ground floor aims ...
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Opinion
Unwelcome export
Rest assured, Tony Aspinall (Letters April 23), you are not the only architect dismayed with the incongruously designed College of Art & Design in Toronto. However, there are some benefits, namely it was built in Canada and not Britain, and, fortunately, we do not live in the locality of ...
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Opinion
Ego reduction
So Zaha Hadid really is mellowing. Even the national press is having to ditch its preconceptions. “Where’s the vibrant monster I had been promised from previous interviews?” asked a Guardian interviewer. “Where’s the ball-breaking harridan barking abuse into her mobile as she wafts into her north London studio in vertiginous ...
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News
Plan for Shard square ditched
Plans for a new public square at the foot of Renzo Piano's 306m London Bridge Tower have been controversially scrapped.
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News
Scots rocked by Doolan's death
Architect and developer Andrew Doolan, best known for funding the £25,000 annual Royal Incorparation of Architects in Scotland prize and for his stylish hotel designs, died suddenly on Tuesday at the age of 52.
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TechnicalCover versions
Eley Kishimoto's distinctive prints cover furniture, tea sets, wallpaper, globetrotter cases and, of course, clothes, and soon its flash print will encase Nokia phones.
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NewsMcAslan to sell control of his practice to staff
John McAslan is to sell more than half of his practice to senior staff.
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News'Real danger' of new Ronan Point collapse
The tragedy of the 1968 Ronan Point housing collapse is in "real danger" of being repeated 36 years later on a north London estate, experts have warned.
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NewsMake takes collaboration route
Shuttleworth forges job-specific alliance with RHWL and Carey Jones
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News
Three minutes enough to lose Chinese job...
Llewlyn Davies has been disqualified from a design competition for a £60 million airport terminal in the Chinese city of Wuhan because its entry was submitted three minutes late.
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