All Building Design articles in 30 July 2004 – Page 3
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Disabled campaigners target toilets
Disabled people will try to gain entry to public buildings across Britain on the day it becomes against the law to deny them access to the services inside.
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Green buyers will pay extra
A new survey has found the majority of housebuyers are prepared to pay 2% extra for an eco-friendly home.
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NewsGherkins little brother
Foster & Partners has unveiled its latest tall building for the City of London. The 115m-high office tower (centre) features 19,500 sq m of office space, 500 sq m of retail and leisure facilities and a landscaped sky garden on the top floor. The office tower on Camomile Street, for ...
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FeaturesBright young things
BD’s panel of experts has trawled the UK’s architecture schools for the freshest new talent.
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Starstruck in Hollywood: Brad and Homer meet Rem and Frank
Architects hit the mainstream this month with Hollywood movie star Brad Pitt spending the day with Rem Koolhaas and Frank Gehry winning the ultimate accolade — a cameo on The Simpsons.Pitt spent a day with Koolhaas in Rotterdam earlier this month. The superstar showed Pitt round his Office for Metropolitan ...
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NewsBling thing on Oxford Street
Future Systems has won planning permission to replace the bland glass-brick frontage of a building in London’s Oxford Street with a “jewel-like” glass and aluminium facade.The practice behind the popular Selfridges building in Birmingham said the idea behind the design at 367 Oxford Street was to “delicately unify the lower-ground ...
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Building StudyThe big idea
A retail-style library in east London gives David Adjaye the chance to really prove himself.
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FeaturesBest of the rest
Other outstanding diploma studentsNicola AntakeRoyal College of Art, LondonAndy BushellUniversity of ManchesterKerrie CunninghamThe Queen’s University, BelfastMichael de WolfUniversity of Greenwich, LondonAlexander Dusterloh University of LiverpoolClaire Finlay University of Westminster, LondonJoy-Anne Fleming University of DundeeIlias GalanisSouth Bank University, LondonAndreas Gerlsbeck University of EdinburghJordan Gill Leeds Metropolitan UniversityCatherine HoustonUniversity of Strathclyde, GlasgowLiz ...
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Opinion
Bare noises
A press briefing about the acoustics makeover of the Royal Festival Hall revealed some interesting, but strange, facts about how sound reverberates around a concert hall. According to acoustics expert Larry Kirkegaard, the sound in the Royal Festival Hall would be better if the audience was naked. Apparently, a fully ...
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ReviewBarb magnet
Saul Metzstein is pleased to see a book on the Barbican that celebrates the much-derided estate
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NewsA new art form
Claudio Silvestrin Architects has won planning permission for a new roof extension above an old warehouse in east London. The warehouse is next door to the Victoria Miro Gallery, and the extension will house live/work units designed for young working artists.The warehouse below the new residential units will be converted ...
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Architects ‘place profit before lives’
An MP campaigning to reduce the number of deaths in the construction industry has called for greater health and safety regulation of architects.
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Lipton hoisted by his own anti-trophy rulesi
A planning inspector has rejected Stanhope’s planned redevelopment of a 5ha regeneration site in Croydon with CZWG and Foster & Partners following a public inquiry.
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Angry Mandy fumes over revamp of his grandads Festival Hall
Peter Mandelson has waded into plans to improve Royal Festival Hall with strong criticism of Allies & Morrison’s revamp.
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FeaturesAndy Hilton
University of Central England in BirminghamAge 29Nationality BritishProfile Andy Hilton has followed a circuitous route through education, taking 11 years to reach part II. Over the past few years he has conceived a new design methodology based on a study of site histories. Now that he has completed his diploma, ...
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FeaturesAmanda Nicoll
Mackintosh School of Architecture, GlasgowAge 27Nationality BritishProfile For the next few months, Amanda Nicoll will be getting some real hands-on experience. She is renovating her house in Glasgow so she can sell it and move to London to find a job. Her final year project and her thesis both focused ...
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Opinion
Louiss love affair
Nathaniel Kahn calls to talk about his cinematic quest to discover his dad, Louis, in the film My Architect, which is previewed next week in London. After agreeing that big-name architects tend to be an eccentric bunch after he met IM Pei and Philip Johnson for the movie, he reveals ...
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Mathers Ashmolean project wins 15m lottery funding
Rick Mather Architects is pushing full steam ahead on its scheme for the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford after the project secured £15 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund last week.
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TechnicalIn detail 16: A13 Artscape Project Pump Control House
The A13 Artscape project aims to improve conditions for residents, workers, pedestrians and drivers along a 6km stretch of the A13 trunk road in east London. Various artworks have been incorporated into road improvements which include two pedestrian subways, two roundabouts and an underpass. The pump control house contains electrical ...
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