All Building Design articles in 4 February 2005 – Page 3

  • News

    Brown backs Prescott plans

    2005-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Chancellor Gordon Brown this week moved to allay fears that government housing plans would not win sufficient Treasury funding by backing deputy prime minster John Prescott’s ambitious development strategy.

  • News

    Fosters fine art

    2005-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Refurbishment of Norman Foster’s Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia in Norwich has started on site. The project, led once again by Foster & Partners, is the first major refurbishment of the arts centre since it was completed in 1978. The project will provide a ...

  • The Fountainhead
    Features

    Architest

    2005-02-04T00:00:00Z

    This week: show business

  • Du Plessis: Arb is “totally unreasonable”
    News

    Arb in validation row

    2005-02-04T00:00:00Z

    South African furious at Arb’s refusal to accept RIBA-accredited part II

  • Foster’s Willis Faber & Dumas building in Ipswich: The last great modern building in Suffolk, according to Suffolk Preservation Society chief.
    News

    Spotcheck: East Anglia

    2005-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Stagnant Suffolk The head of the Suffolk Preservation Society, Richard Ward, has slammed volume housebuilders and companies such as KFC and supermarket chain Aldi for commissioning “mediocre” buildings that “slowly erode the county’s distinct identity.” Ward said Norman Foster’s 1975 Willis Faber & Dumas building in Ipswich was the last ...

  • Opinion

    Ancient heroes

    2005-02-04T00:00:00Z

    I was delighted that Malcolm Fraser’s article drew attention to Ancient Egypt. It is to Egyptian civilisation that we may look as an example of Fraser’s empathetic approach, with its high status and appreciation of women, property and marriage rights protected in law. This set the context for many achievements, ...

  • Toby Paterson — “I try to make images that side-step the medium in which they are rendered.”
    Review

    Modernism up against the wall

    2005-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Post-war modernist architecture is the inspiration for artist Toby Paterson, writes Johnny Rodger

  • News

    Architects fees are set to soar by 40%

    2005-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Architects’ fees will rise by more than 40% in the next four years, according to market researchers.

  • 5050
    News

    Update: week 4

    2005-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Four weeks into the campaign and we are almost halfway to reaching our target of 250 practices adopting the 50/50 Charter. We still need 132 more practices to sign up by International Women’s Day on March 8. Go to bdonline.co.uk/5050Practices joining this week include Feilden & Mawson, Niall McLaughlin Architects ...

  • News

    English Partnerships secures team for 15,000 London homes

    2005-02-04T00:00:00Z

    The national regeneration agency, English Partnerships, has selected three consortia including nine architects to design up to 15,000 new homes across London.