All Building Design articles in 30 July 2004 – Page 2
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News
Staff shortages spark foreign talent search
Practices forced to look abroad as experienced employees stay put
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News
McAslan reshuffle follows share pledge
John McAslan & Partners has restructured its offices in Manchester and London to allow senior staff to purchase a share of the practice.The practice has appointed a number of new associates and two new directors: Aidan Potter, who worked with McAslan for 10 years before moving to Terry Farrell & ...
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Building StudyFirst Look: Zaha talks the walk in Manhattan
Zaha Hadid has unveiled designs to bring a disused viaduct in Manhattan back into public use.
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News
Extreme weather warning
Architects need to rethink design to deal with climate change, advises government study
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News
Gehry: the icon effect is misunderstood
Star architect wades into icon row amid calls for Liverpool resignation
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Opinion
Dont shed tears for the lost icons
There were no tears shed in my house at the news that the V&A extension had spiralled into oblivion and that The Cloud had proved to be so much hot air.
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News
Son steps in to save Dhaka
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn, son of legendary architect Louis I Kahn, has intervened in Bangladesh to try and preserve his father’s celebrated Dhaka parliament complex.
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FeaturesKirsty Dewell
University of NewcastleAge 24Nationality BritishProfile Over the next 10 years, Kirsty Dewell says she intends to establish herself as “a key figure in the Northern architecture scene”.Unlike many of her fellow students who are heading straight for London, she is staying in Newcastle, wooed by an offer she couldn’t refuse ...
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FeaturesDavid Maciver
Robert Gordon University, AberdeenAge 23Nationality BritishProfile Finding an approach to rural architecture is the next challenge David Maciver has set himself. After working mainly on urban projects during his studies at Aberdeen University, he is now heading back to his native Western Isles in Scotland to work for Stuart Bagshaw ...
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OpinionA damp squib
Far from being futuristic, John McAslan’s circular canopies for the Piccadilly Gardens (News July 23) took me back to the 1970s, when, as a summer-working student, I joined the design office of a well-known oil company.It too used overlapping circular canopies of varying heights — until it found that people ...
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Opinion
A slow response risks collapse disaster
You can imagine the baffling letter hitting the resident’s doormat. It’s on government notepaper and states in dauntingly obscure Whitehall language: “The LPS block you live in may not have been investigated in accordance with the MHLG Circular 62/68 (1968) or the BRE guidance published in 1987.”
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Opinion
Dont let ego war destroy our cities
That some emperors are waking up to the fact that their new clothes are not as promised (“End of the iconic age”, July 23) is good news. However, the threat to our towns from ego-architecture remains. A top person in an urban regeneration agency recently told me that he commissioned ...
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FeaturesChristoph Hadrys
University of East LondonAge 32Nationality GermanProfile Christoph Hadrys was one of last year’s Europan winners. His project for Augsburg in Germany has just got the final go-ahead and Hadrys and his co-winner, a German friend and fellow East London student, will be opening their own office in Berlin.It won’t be ...
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News
RRP and Wilkinson Eyre up for China towers
The Richard Rogers Partnership and Wilkinson Eyre have both been shortlisted in a competition to design one of two new towers in Guangzhou, China.
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News
Minister: Did we miss vital prefab safety checks?
The government has admitted vital safety checks on the design of pre-fabricated estates across the UK may have been neglected.
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ReviewThe cars the star
That great design icon the E-type Jaguar is the subject of a exhibition at London’s Design Museum, from Sunday. Unveiled to the public at the 1961 Geneva Motor Show, the sexiest of sports cars soon came to symbolise the spirit of the sixties and was beloved of Beatle George Harrison ...
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FeaturesHow to survive your career
So you haven't graduated with distinction this year? Follow BD’s tongue in cheek graduation-to-grave guide to getting ahead
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