All Building Design articles in 8 April 2004 – Page 3
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Opinion
Embracing the 'bulge'
Look out for references to architecture in John Prescott's next speech following his love-in with architecture's cream of the crop last week. After showing them around the modernist refurbishment at his Admiralty House HQ last week, Prescott sat down over a hearty dinner of beef pastries and talked about architecture. ...
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OpinionIs this a healthy way to build?
Ten years ago the new UCL hospital was an early PFI project. As it nears completion later this year, some are wondering if it is straightforward architecture or another example of the cost of compromise.
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News
Foster in hot water over British Museum cafés
Foster & Partners’ acclaimed £100 million Great Court scheme at the British Museum faces a redesign if a planning inspector rules later this month that two cafés on either side of the Reading Room must be removed.
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NewsBridge over River Cam unveiled
The river Cam in Cambridge is about to get its first bridge in 40 years, designed by the winning team Whitbybird in collaboration with sculptor Gerry Judah.
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FeaturesThe divine bovine
Rejoicing at Zaha Hadid's Pritzker Prize was understandably slightly mooted west of Offa's Dyke. It's not just that we feared it would offer critics yet another opportunity to remind the world of the lost Cardiff Opera House, but that it would confirm just how out of touch some of us ...
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News
Most excellent awards
The American Institute of Architects London/ UK Excellence in Design Awards have been won by: One Centaur Street by de Rijke Marsh Morgan; Jubilee School in Tulse Hill by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris; Black Rubber Beach House in Dungeness by Simon Conder Associates and Bridge of Aspiration in Covent Garden ...
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OpinionConstructive arguments
James Woudhuysen's new book is opinionated, clever and has hit a raw nerve with architects.
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News
Merging architects
Arthur Collin Architects and Walter & McNamara have merged to become DAAM. The merged practice is a long-standing collaboration between Collin and designer Mike Walter and is based in Clerkenwell.
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NewsIan Simpson Architects
Ian Simpson Architects has won planning permission for a new office development in Piccadilly Basin, Manchester. The £12 million Eider House scheme in Manchester is due on site at the end of the year.
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Opinion
British architects must crack own code
How's this for a test run? Take 150ha of land in the Thames Gateway, plan 12,000 new homes and apply design codes across the whole site.
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News
EH halts listing drive amid DfES pressure
English Heritage has been accused of holding back from listing a swathe of iconic post-war university buildings, following government concern over the cost of maintaining them.Separately, scores of celebrated post-war examples of social housing, cold war installations and industrial architecture are not being considered for listing because of fears of ...
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NewsAlexander Redhouse, Lasdun partner, dies
Alexander Redhouse was the last surviving partner from Denys Lasdun, Redhouse & Softley.
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New life for AHA
Two practices that recently went into administration have been bought by their former manage-ment teams. Archer Boxer Partners International and AHA Architecture will become AHA Architecture International. The new firm is based in Old Hatfield.
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NewsDublin giant-killers Henghen Peng triumph again
Irish practice Heneghen Peng has won its second major international competition after beating Daniel Libeskind and SOM to redevelop the Carlisle Pier in Dun Laoghaire harbour.
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News
£250k for Eastern promise
Four schemes in a design competition to establish a new landmark in East Anglia have shared £250,000 to go towards feasibility studies. They include: steel sculptures rising out of the sea to mark the site of the lost city of Dunwich by Anne Niemann and Johannes Ingrisch; a moveable bridge ...
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