All Building Design articles in 8 October 2004 – Page 2
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News
Murphy comes home to restore historic warehouse
Richard Murphy has won his first project in his home town of Manchester: the refurbishment of one of the world’s most significant 19th century warehouses.
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News
Ex-Aukett directors poach former client
Staff who left Aukett in the wake of a boardroom takeover in May have formed their own practice and already poached one of the listed practice’s clients.
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Building StudyFirst Look: Caruso St Johns vision in lace
Caruso St John Architects has unveiled images of its competition-winning designs for a new art gallery and performance space in Nottingham.
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Opinion
Can Cabe resuscitate hospital design?
After five years in the business of persuading ministers and civil servants that good design counts, the Commission for Architecture & the Built Environment is still struggling to weave its magic with the health mandarins.
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NewsGLA’s ‘green’ dream in the shade as County Hall brings in the sun
RHWL’s plans to install solar panels on County Hall roofs could provide a quarter of the site’s energy needs
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NewsBowled over
Alison Brooks Architects has been granted planning permission for a £1.6 million private house overlooking a bowling green in Wandsworth, south-west London. The 600sq m house, for developer Lyford Investments, is conceived as a continuous folding surface that creates a series of platforms over the landscape. This would create an ...
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Opinion
Nimby Blair?
If the Blairs were seeking a quiet life at their £3.6 million town house in Connaught Square they may be disappointed. Landscape specialist Lovejoy is proposing to pedestrianise the nearby Marble Arch area. Tony and Cherie will wave goodbye to the 1960s gyratory system, and the labyrinth of underpasses would ...
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Opinion
Beyond the trees
Amid the generation of hot air over timber supplies and Forestry Stewardship Council standards, I wonder if the protagonists eat out-of-season strawberries or mange tout from Zimbabwe.The construction industry’s spend may well be large and its effects far-reaching, but surely more people spend at supermarkets and can, collectively, moderate worldwide ...
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Nominate Britains best client
Give your client a slap on the back and nominate them for BD’s inaugural Client of the Year Award. You have just one week left to name your favourite before we draw up a shortlist and put it to a reader vote.
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FeaturesRenato Benedetti
BooksDavid Remnick’s King of the World revealed the socio-political context of Muhammad Ali’s greatness — will any future athlete affect politics and society so profoundly? I’m now reading Peter Robb’s Midnight in Sicily before visiting the island. Peter Ackroyd’s London: The Biography and Clerkenwell Tales are a fabulously full evocation ...
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OpinionThe beautiful game
Behold. Peter Cook and HOK have kickstarted the long-overdue transfer system in the world of architecture (News September 17). Be honest, in any office not all architects have the same skills. There are goalkeepers, those wizened characters who know how not to get sued; defenders, who can meet any ...
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Gothic labyrinth for Barbican
It is notoriously difficult to navigate, but now visitors to the Barbican in London will face a fresh challenge in the form of a new gothic-style labyrinth right on its doorstep.
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Ken backs Rogers City tower
Richard Rogers Partnership’s proposed 224m-high office tower in Leadenhall Street, London, has won the backing of London mayor Ken Livingstone.
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NewsShock and awe
MVRDV’s Serpentine mountain is typically subversive, but is its first UK building a provocation too far? Zoë Blackler talks to the Dutch trio
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NewsTwisting the night away
Atkins has won a commission to design a major new landmark building in Bahrain, known as the Twisting Towers. Head architect on the tower — a luxury hotel for an unnamed client at an undisclosed location — is Tom Wright, who also led the design on the practice’s award-winning Burj ...
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ReviewAnyone for Venice?
Richard Murphy is enchanted by a new television series on this historic Italian city
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NewsAlsop makes the grade
Alsop Architects has unveiled its new concept for the remodelling of an average secondary school. The new exemplar is designed as an easy way for schools to expand. The practice hopes it will be adopted by companies bidding to build or refurbish schools under the government’s £2.2 billion Building Schools ...
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Grace flop not my fault, says Alsop
Public sector ‘lost the will’ Liverpool council inquiry told
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NewsLets go round again
Glenn Howells Architects has won planning permission to renovate the iconic Rotunda in Birmingham and convert it from offices to 234 luxury flats.Howells consulted the Rotunda’s original architect, Jim Roberts, about the building’s unique structure. The main changes will be new full-height glass cladding and new signage around the top.Developer ...
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