All Building Design articles in 6 August 2004 – Page 2
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Building StudyFirst look: New for Old Street
Designs by Tonkin Liu to upgrade public spaces on London’s Old Street have won a competition run by the Architecture Foundation. The practice’s “Promenade of Light” scheme beat designs by Alison Brooks Architects, ASC + AWP, Milk Architecture & Design and WaG Architecture to design the £1 million first phase ...
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News
Public fatigued by masterplan mania
Residents on the controversial Aylesbury Estate in south London have complained of masterplan fatigue after it emerged this week that they are to be regaled with another masterplan, the fifth in eight years.
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NewsGehry’s endgame
The 75-year-old talks to Ellis Woodman about George Bush, building bandstands and beating Bill Gates
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Opinion
Get off the ego trip
Ellis Woodman and George Oldham (Soapbox and Letters July 30) neatly put their finger on what is wrong with “landmark” buildings. The fact that Alsop’s Cloud can be touted around for any other site says it all. These are hugely egotistical buildings, too big for their boots and in danger ...
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Milton Keynes homes plan is disjointed
The strategy behind the government’s push for more than 300,000 homes in the Milton Keynes and south Midlands area has been branded “rushed and disjointed” by an independent panel.
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Opinion
The right course of treatment for PFI?
Hospitals and doctors’ surgeries are the public buildings we visit when we are at our most vulnerable and where we experience some of life’s most vital moments. So how does the government’s plan to abolish the body that looks after the quality of these spaces, NHS Estates, fit in with ...
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ReviewDaddy cool
My Architect, a filmic exploration of the life of Louis Kahn (right) through the eyes of his illegitimate son, goes on general release next Friday.The insightful documentary is the result of a five-year quest by Nathaniel Kahn to get closer to the father he barely knew. The film-maker was one ...
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Opinion
Reality check
Steve Miller’s ill-mannered letter (July 30) may make good reading, but the tired caricature he draws of Alsop masterplans cynically cobbled together over louche lunches is not founded in reality.Read on, Steve, because this is how it really is…Working on a range of major regeneration projects (including Middlesbrough) Tees Valley ...
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Opinion
Change the world
“Streets and squares” beat “pods on sticks” (Letters July 30), but the only reason they beat, say, parks and flats is because they help to control some of the worst features of our unequal and fearful society. Surely we need more vision. All too often designing out crime has designed ...
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EH pulls plug on Brighton pier rescue
English Heritage has dashed hopes of restoring Brighton’s derelict West Pier by withdrawing support for any bids to save the badly damaged structure.
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Review
Thinking inside the box
At 53, architect Eduardo Souto de Moura is about to enter his prime, says Jonathan Woolf
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News
Bigger fees for better buildings
Architects could be paid more if a new hospital building improved patient recovery times or a new college improved exam results under new plans being considered by the RIBA.The institute is exploring how fees can be calculated according to the performance of a building, rather than as a percentage of ...
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Opinion
Modernists hide behind glass facade
I am alarmed by the misplaced energy expended over the topic of “iconic” architecture. Some of this opprobrium should be reserved for the nondescript, mediocre buildings that clutter our cities, and that have become the acceptable benchmark by which we judge anything remotely out of the ordinary.Future Systems’ scheme for ...
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News
Moving in day finally arrives at Holyrood
Scottish Parliament staff finally began moving into the new Holyrood building this week as presiding officer George Reid admitted the project was “a major failure in public procurement in Scotland”.
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Architecture returns to St Martins college
A fully fledged architecture course is set to return to one of London’s most celebrated art colleges after an absence of more than 50 years.
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Opinion
Alsops lost love
Publishing schedules can play wicked tricks when events move fast — and Will Alsop is the latest victim. A new book, The Treasures of Liverpool, hit Boots’ desk this week, featuring Mr Alsop’s ex-project, the Cloud, across a jolly double page spread, and even a little piece by the architect ...
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NewsAlsop dunks the donut
Alsop Architects has toned down its usual lively style for the revamp of New Street Station in Birmingham. Alsop was sent back to the drawing board at the end of last year after presenting a scheme to Birmingham City Council that apparently resembled a large, purple donut.The station is in ...
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Opinion
Going it alone
Once again, a major RIBA policy decision is announced without any reference to the RIBA Council (Soapbox July 23). The policy wasn’t in George Ferguson’s election manifesto either. This latest episode reinforces the concern I have always had about the undue concentration of power resulting from the RIBA’s reorganisation ...
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