All Building Design articles in 4 February 2005 – Page 2
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News
Victorian housing needs to be restored not razed, warns EH
English Heritage has warned the government not to demolish nearly a million abandoned homes in the north of England and the Midlands, saying this could endanger the country’s historic environment.
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ReviewDial-a-building
Some people are horrified and some amused by the inspiration for our Liverpool project (a conference centre and arena at King’s Dock), which is my mobile phone — a Motorola V600.The design aesthetic of the mobile phone is highly relevant today because nearly everybody has one and they are now ...
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News
Hepworth plan still on despite grant loss
David Chipperfield Architects is confident its £23 million Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield will go ahead despite being turned down for a £7 million Heritage Lottery Fund grant last week.
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Opinion
We want to design
The debate about women in architecture has to move away from spatial ability. Not all women are empathetic and not all men can read maps: 50% of female architects leaving the profession is not due to a sudden recognition of spatial inferiority.We did not study for so long to introduce ...
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Building StudyIs London getting a square deal?
The Greater London Authority has grand plans to transform the capital’s public realm, but will these succeed in bringing together the city’s inhabitants? Ellis Woodman explores the meaning of public space
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News
Planning crisis in N Ireland
Northern Ireland’s planning system is in the grip of a severe and worsening crisis largely of its own making, prominent architects claimed this week.
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Opinion
Fixing costs
It was intriguing to read your article, “Housing’s quick fix” (News Analysis January 28), regarding the viability of a £60,000 house and PRP’s “affordable house” designs (pictured left), not least because it is possible to build a straightforward family home for that cost. The crux of the situation is the ...
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News
Housing Corporation to value d
The government’s funding body for housing is to rate design quality above ease of delivery when handing out grants.
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NewsZahas competition wins keep on flowing
Zaha Hadid has continued her spectacular series of competition wins by clinching the commission for the Aquatics Centre for London’s 2012 Olympics bid. Hadid, who won the competition for the Architecture Foundation’s new headquarters last month, has come up with a sinuous S-shaped roof inspired by the flow of water.The ...
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ReviewCommon thread to the Swiss role
Ellis Woodman learns about the particular influence of the ETH school in Zurich
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Opinion
Commercial story gets in the way
The Houston in Euston piece (Works January 28) contained an entirely predictable comment by your reviewer. He was clearly rather troubled by the Wellcome Trust building as it has a very straightforward, client-friendly, rectangular plan-form clothed in a relentlessly logical elegant exterior — in short an immensely satisfying piece ...
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Opinion
Live by the code
I understand there is scepticism about the need for design codes (News January 28). We hear that they “stifle” creativity, but this argument originates from two camps — those architects whose work far exceeds any design code aspiration, and those who think only in terms of objects and not of ...
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News
RIBA claims victory over planning policy
Government capitulates as good design is enshrined in new ODPM guidance
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Opinion
Narcissists who cant take criticism
Will Alsop’s anger last month that anyone dare criticise his work illuminated a widening rift in architectural culture.
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NewsPrescott bows to US
Rogers left out in the cold as Prescott makes new urbanism the hot topic at the Manchester summit
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OpinionConcrete Boots
Car crimeWriter and English Heritage commissioner Bill Bryson has warned that Britain is in danger of becoming as reliant on cars as the US. As an illustration, he told a story about his neighbours when he lived in New England. They used to drive to his house from two doors ...
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Opinion
Dont blubber
Congratulations to BD’s Ellis Woodman for having produced two balanced and thoughtfully critical reviews of buildings by high-profile architects (Works January 7 and 14). We need critics who are not afraid to reveal the flaws in the buildings they review and question their architectural qualities beyond the reputations of their ...
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News
Olympic bid lifts public-space hopes
The RIBA and English Heritage are using a presentation to the International Olympic Committee to try to kick-start the long-delayed regeneration of London’s public spaces.
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News
Lib Dem MP wades into Bath Spa melee
The Bath Spa saga took a new twist this week when Bath MP Don Foster waded into the ongoing row between Grimshaw and contractor Mowlem.
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