All Building Design articles in 30 April 2004 – Page 3
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News
Presidential candidate quits
Controversial RIBA councillor Chris Roche this week pulled out of the race to succeed George Ferguson as institute president.
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Building StudyFoster's higher calling
The Swiss Re headquarters officially opens this week. Has Foster's rewritten the history of the tall building or just created another City monument? Christopher Woodward takes a look inside
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Technical
Printing buildings
Textile design duo Eley Kishimoto have teamed up with 6A Architects to create screen-printed panels for an art installation. But, as Amanda Birch reports, it is an idea that could spread to buildings
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News
Foster building led to resignation Teacher quits over design
A senior teacher at a new state-of-the-art school designed by Foster & Partners has resigned, partly in protest at the school's design.
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Building StudyBreaking school rules
Richard Feilden finds lessons in projects by BDP and Wilkinson Eyre
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Opinion
Living in a time bomb?
Relations between Islington Council and the tenants of its Packington Estate would not normally make huge news in BD. But this week, things are different.
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Opinion
Bold statement
I wonder how far a statutory requirement to submit design statements with planning applications will get us? Even assuming they don’t just become a series of standard clauses, it is difficult to imagine how the statements that might have been put forward by the winners of the Young Architect of ...
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Opinion
Body building
Remember how Future Systems’ Jan Kaplicky harped on about how thongs and breasts helped to inspire his architecture in Confessions? Now the firm’s other partner, Amanda Levete, is at it, too. The double-page spread in the Guardian arts supplement she guest-edited last week juxtaposed a large picture of a woman’s ...
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ReviewBetter than nature
Martha Schwartz's landscape architecture is creative, colourful and unexpected, often in the face of client indifference. Ellie Duffy heard her talk at the RIBA
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News
Berlin ministry to be rebuilt
A series of problems with an award-winning government building in Berlin by a leading Swiss architect has forced civil servants to move out.
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NewsThe 'burbs bite back
Academia, eager builders and a positive public say suburbs are set to boom. But are architects willing to swallow their pride and head out of town.
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Opinion
Go back to school to solve skills gap
I couldn't agree with Robert Booth more (Editorial April 23) that Prescott's and "Egan's dreams will come to nothing without [the] core skills" of the best architects and the many other professionals who need to be involved in the huge sustainable communities programme.The purpose of the national centre, in whatever ...
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NewsAll-new Altrincham
Ian Simpson Architects has revealed its design submission for a major mixed-use scheme in the North-west town of Altrincham.It will be competing with Faulkner Browns, CDA and Hurd Rolland Partnership, each working with individual developers to transform and extend the Cheshire town centre for client Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council. The ...
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Technical
Clash over school acoustics
Quiet controversy is reverberating around the acoustic design world.
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News
RMJM's £200 million Custom House Quay development
RMJM's £200 million Custom House Quay development in Glasgow city centre has been submitted for planning permission. The mixed-use development, on a 1.25ha site on the banks of the river Clyde, includes a tower to draw pedestrians in from Buchanan Street down to the river. The scheme comprises a four-star ...
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Technical
In detail 03: Digital Studio, Oxford Brookes School of the Built Environment
The studio for architectural students occupies the top floor of a 1960s concrete framed building. To counteract the resonance of the hard surfaces, a series of profiled Melatech foam sound-absorbing baffles are suspended on isolating hangers from the ceiling.
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