All Building Design articles in 8 April 2004 – Page 2
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Opinion
A privileged few
The point about Thatcher's children ("Why don't these Brits win YAYA? Comment & Analysis March 26) is that they are now Blair's graduates, struggling to pay back student debts before hopefully scraping together enough money to buy a house whose price rises quicker than their income.This is the real context ...
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Opinion
Festival facts
Gordon Miller (Skylon revisited, Letters March 26) seems a bit confused. The Sea and Ships pavilion, in front of the Dome of Discovery at the Festival of Britain, was designed by Basil Spence’s London office under Andrew Renton, and I was involved with designing this building, and also worked on ...
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News
Expanding schools
Design guidelines for building schools have been amended this month to specify larger spaces with wider access. The change is partly intended to accommodate the needs of pupils with disabilities and to allow for out-of-hours activities. For details, go to www.teachernet.gov.uk
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ReviewPostcards from the edge
The work of East German architectural photographer Erasmus Schroeter records the built legacy of totalitarianism.
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News
Dreams to reality
Brady Mallalieu Architects is flying the flag for architects on reality TV. It has designed a house which 12 couples will help build, while facing being voted off the show. The winning couple keeps the house. Building the Dream is repeated on ITV 1 this Sunday and next at 4.55pm.
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Opinion
Someone different
With a plethora of candidates all barrelling at the presidential title, a sense of proportion is needed at the RIBA.For peace of mind I would go with Brian Godfrey, a man who I believe is of his time, a man of unsullied reputation and plainness and courteousness. The press will ...
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News
Zed homes developer threatens to quit UK
'The government is against everything we represent' claims financial backer
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News
World-class design planned for Headingley pavilion
Yorkshire County Cricket Club has announced plans to rebuild the famous Headingley cricket ground, starting with a pavilion to rival the impact of the Sydney Opera House or the Bilbao Guggenheim.
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News
Hotel demolition scheme sparks row
A £500 million Allies & Morrison scheme to regenerate a large swathe of central London has been attacked for being bland, repetitive and proposing to demolish the 1915 Regent’s Palace Hotel.
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ReviewThe double life of Dan
Dan Brady combines working for his part III with being one of Charles Saatchi's young protégés, creating artworks inspired by Kafka and Le Corbusier.
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NewsSurface treatment for cottage revamp
Surface Architects, recently awarded third place in the BD/Corus Young Architect of the Year Award, has won planning permission for a £625,000 extension and refurbishment of a Victorian lock-keeper's cottage.
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Opinion
Terms of confusion
Our Vision for a new settlement on the banks of the River Moscow (News April 2), and in particular our use of allegorical descriptions for the layering of urban quarters that our masterplan creates, seems to have created a great deal of confusion at both BD and Edaw.All great towns ...
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News
Institute's competition crises
Last September, two leading practices were thrown out of a competition to design a £12 million town hall building in Middlesbrough. Richard Murphy Architects and Stanton Williams were disqualified after narrowly missing a deadline for a fee proposal. In January, another design competition was undermined when Newham Borough Council rejected ...
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News
Newnham College
A £5.6 million library for Newnham College in Cambridge, designed by John Miller & Partners, has been completed. The space is organised around twin barrel vaulted aisles.
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NewsClient shows 'contempt' for RIBA contest
Ushida Findlay scheme axed as competition crisis deepens
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Opinion
Clever Rem stumped
Rem Koolhaas is notoriously obsessed with media coverage of his work, which is why a few weeks ago his office asked BD to fax a recent editorial to their Dutch headquarters.The editorial, which argued Rem was “too clever”, was duly faxed across and received with silence.But, according to BD’s moles, ...
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News
City design grants at LSE
Two new scholarships worth a total of £25,000 are available for the London School of Economics’ City Design & Social Science MSc. The scholarships are funded by the Mercers’ Company, a City of London livery company, and are targeted at students from inner city areas.
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Opinion
Chinese see red
London-based Weston Williamson is down to the final three for a new train station in Beijing. But the practice had some interesting feedback from the Chinese client on its original design. The station was originally a bright shade of Communist red, a colour the practice thought the client might appreciate, ...
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News
Libyan campus interest
Thawing diplomatic relations between Libya and the west have prompted new interest in late modernist James Cubitt's Benghazi University campus in the country.
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Opinion
Burying the past
It turns out the developers that demolished one side of the beautiful Spitalfields market on the edge of the City of London have suddenly developed a taste for heritage and history. Once a very large and bustling historic market complete with five-a-side football pitches, Spitalfields is now a much smaller ...
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