All Building Design articles in 9 July 2004 – Page 2
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TechnicalHidden treasure
Research and paint analysis have revealed Soane's Moggerhanger House to be one of his finest works.
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Opinion
Highway to hell
It is good to see Richard Rogers and George Ferguson speaking out on the need to have more integration in the education of architects and others working in the built environment (News July 2). And it’s not just planners either.Highway engineers — where do they come from? Most of what ...
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NewsHealing the scars of torture
A purpose-built centre for victims of torture, which opened in London last month, exemplifies architecture's increasing claims that it can tackle trauma and mental illness.
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News
No housing targets in Gateway plan
Architects were left bemused this week after the government's Urban Development Corporation for London's Thames Gateway was launched without any targets for boosting housing in the area.
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News
Foster quits NYC tower
Foster & Partners has quit a controversial 100m tower scheme in New York after concern from local residents over the scale and massing of the project.
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TechnicalTechnicalities: Reversible fortunes
In working with historic buildings we are advised by statutory bodies that alterations should be "reversible". I must admit to having severe difficulties with this advice.
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News
RMJM’s Holyrood safety fears
Holyrood project architect Brian Stewart complained last year about a host of safety issues with the building’s debating chamber, but was ignored by officials, it has emerged.
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News
Greenwich meets its density
Stock Woolstencroft was celebrating this week after its designs for a £30 million high-density scheme to build 136 new homes in Greenwich won planning permission after an appeal.
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Opinion
Glass not dead yet
I would like to clarify the article on cladding “Glazed over” (Solutions June 25). The DTI Partners in Innovation research project does not comment on or make any conclusions about how much glass should be used in buildings. The output of the work is a toolkit to look at ...
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NewsDance the light fantastic
Aaron Evans Architects’ design for a dance studio at Oldfield school in Bath has won planning permission. The scheme comprises a dance studio, office changing facilities and entrance lobby, lit with north light from high-level north-facing glazing. The design’s “sharp corner” when viewed from the main approach, acts as ...
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NewsDutch courage
Designs by Fat for the first social housing units at the New Islington Millennium Community in Manchester were unveiled today, alongside schemes by Alsop Architects and Ian Simpson Architects. The practice was chosen by residents to create designs for 23 families at Woodward Place, and came up with the ...
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News
Westminster council rejects hotel demolition proposal
Concerns over the immediate future of London’s Regent Palace Hotel eased last week after Westminster council rejected designs that would have seen the hotel demolished.
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NewsConran in Ken
Conran & Partners has won planning permission for its first private house, on London’s Kensington High Street. The scheme will convert an old timber merchants into apartments and add a new-build house. The apartments will be clad in zinc panels, and the house in dark brown weathered copper with dark ...
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Building StudyCultured club
Squire & Partners' restoration of the former Conservative Club into HSBC offices has brought a new vitality to this classical early Victorian building on London's St James's Street
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NewsChicagos park life
A new $475 million (£250 million), 8.5ha park in Chicago features a music pavilion by Frank Gehry, a sculpture by Anish Kapoor and a contemporary garden by Gustafson Porter.Gehry's 36m-high Jay Pritzker Pavilion concert hall is the centrepiece of the park, and is linked to the Chicago lakefront by the ...
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Opinion
Public may catch up
Peter Kellow's letter (July 7) prompts two thoughts about the appeal of so-called modern architecture (or lack of it), and the way students are "inducted". He makes reference to the Plymouth School in particular.It is an article of faith at Plymouth that we avoid pushing stylistic approaches. Our students form ...
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Opinion
Rock the casbah
The late Joe Strummer will lend some posthumous celebrity weight to a derelict Victorian folly in Somerset, lined up as one of the candidates to be saved on BBC2’s Restoration series which starts again this week. Friends of Strummer, who died of a heart attack 18 months ago, are bidding ...
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Features
Volume builders cant deliver communities
Volume housebuilders are not the answer — they are the problem. Unlocking the potential of a site and its people is difficult and complex. It requires highly skilled designers sensitive to the needs of people and the potential of a place. Without skilled people driving this process and an informed ...
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Review
Cook enhances the broth
The Bartlett show reflects the style of its departing chairman, writes Kester Rattenbury
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