Building Design articles from June 2003

Building Design archives from June 2003

UK elite in bid for Olympics.(shortlisted firms)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2003... The glitterati of British architecture, including Foster & Partners, Richard Rogers Partnership and Terry Farrell & Partners, made a shortlist to masterplan the Lower Lea Valley area for London's Olympic bid this week. But the home guard...

RIBA takes aim at schools' ideology.(Royal Institute of British Architects education policy)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2003... The RIBA has sparked a row with academics by endorsing a new education policy that calls for architecture schools to declare if they have "an ideological or stylistic preference of any kind". The move comes in the thick of end-of-year...

Liverpool win sparks culture cash scramble.(European Capital of Culture bidding)
June 6, 2003... The government's promise of funds to failed European Capital of Culture bidders will be too little to rescue more than a dozen building projects put in doubt by the decision to award the 2008 title to Liverpool on Wednesday. Losing bidders...

Foster's office could be flats: firm could move after permission granted for new building. (News).(Foster & Partners )
June 6, 2003... Foster & Partners is considering converting its present west London riverside offices into luxury flats and moving into a new building it has designed for a nearby site. The practice has just won planning permission for the office building...

Richard Murphy theatre on hold. (News).(Brief Article)
June 6, 2003... Richard Murphy Architects' troubled scheme for a new warehouse-style theatre in Caernarfon, north Wales, is now on hold because it has gone over budget. The project, which has full planning permission and was due on site next month, has...

Shorter sibling for Heron Tower. (News).
June 6, 2003... A parallel development to the 240m Heron Tower in the City of London, also designed by Kohn Pederson Fox (KPF), is expected to go in for planning permission soon, BD can reveal. It is hoped that the Heron Tower, which gained approval from...

Used-site target beaten. (News).(housing targets)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2003... Record lows in the level of new housebuilding are helping the government beat its targets for construction on previously used sites, it admitted this week. Regeneration minister Jeff Rooker warned that too few homes are still being built...

FOA makes Pompidou shortlist. (News).(Brief Article)
June 6, 2003... Twenty-seven years after the Centre Pompidou in Paris opened its doors, architects are lining up to design another in Metz, northeast France. A shortlist of six teams has been drawn up to build the second Centre Pompidou, and London-based...

Terry Farrell & Partners.(subway proposal)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2003... Caption: Terry Farrell & Partners has submitted a planning application for the redevelopment of South Kensington underground station, incorporating a new station, ticket hall, a large public orientation space and improved transport interchange....

Elephant & Castle in contract carve-up. (News).
June 6, 2003... The London Borough of Southwark is prepared to divide up the Elephant & Castle regeneration area into different design and development packages rather than see another cure-all scheme fall apart. The borough will seek out development...

Leaks and layouts hinder Belfast court. (News).(court building)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2003... A government report into the UK's first PFI court building has found that the Hurd Rolland-designed complex in Belfast has suffered major water leaks and poor sightlines in the courtrooms. The National Audit Office report found that the...

Scottish gong for Radisson Glasgow. (News).(Gordon Murray & Alan Dunlop Architects win Architecture Grand Prix)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2003... Gordon Murray & Alan Dunlop Architects has won the Architecture Grand Prix prize for the Radisson SAS hotel in Glasgow's Argyle Street at the Scottish Design Awards. The scheme also won best commercial project. The chairman's award for...

60s universities up for listing. English Heritage to conduct survey of educational buildings by celebrated modernist architects. (News).
June 6, 2003... A swathe of iconic 1960s universities by some of the most celebrated modernist architects of the 20th century -- including Sir Basil Spence, Denys Lasdun, Alison and Peter Smithson, and Arne Jacobson -- could be put forward for listing as part...

S&P in talks to help NHS Lift teams. (News).(S&P Architects and the National Health Service)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2003... S&P Architects is in talks with major contractors about joining their consortiums to help them deliver NHS Lift contracts. The leisure specialist is talking to Balfour Beatty, Amec and Wilmot Dixon among others to help them cope with the...

S&P Architects.(Nottingham University architecture school building)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2003... Caption: S&P Architects' design for a new studio block for Nottingham University's department of architecture was put in for planning permission on Friday. Under the brief S&P had to design a 'low-key" building with reduced visual impact...

Protesters storm Farrell's HO site. (News).(Terry Farrell)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2003... The construction site for Terry Farrell's new Home Office headquarters in Marsham Street, central London, was stormed by Greenpeace activists this week. Greenpeace claims the building is using plywood from illegally and destructively logged...

Zumtobel competition. (News).(photography)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2003... The seventh Zumtobel Staff Photographic Competition is looking for entrants. Budding photographers should apply for a free disposable camera by e-mailing their name and address to wendyc@cibcommunications.co.uk or faxing: 01372 371801. The...

The Regeneration Practice (TRP).(Brief Article)
June 6, 2003... Caption: The Regeneration Practice (TRP) has gained planning consent for a [pounds sterling]12 million mixed-use scheme at Fish Island, Tower Hamlets, east London. The centrepiece of the design, which will cater far 2,000sq m of business space,...

RIBA to move onsite finishing post.(Royal Institute of British Architects)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2003... Changes to the RIBA's "plan of work' guidance are set to extend architects' duty to asses the performance of buildings after completion. The RIBA is considering adding a new section to its guidance - which explains what architects should...

LDA unveils competition to transform Lewisham centre.(London Development Agency)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2003... A competition to revitalise Lewisham town centre in southeast London was launched this week. The contest, being run by the London Development Agency, calls for plans to transform the main shopping area and the bus, rail and Docklands Light...

Cabe back on Aukett case: design watchdog criticises redesigned proposals for Croydon high-rise, but praises 'refreshing' Peabody scheme. (News).(Michael Aukett Architects' contract criticized by Cabe Space Ltd.)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2003... Cabe has voiced fresh concerns about a [pounds sterling]250 million Michael Aukett Architects-designed high-rise scheme in Croydon, south London, this week. The design watchdog's latest review of the mixed-use scheme, which includes a...

Geoffrey Bawa. (News).(Brief Article)(Obituary)
June 6, 2003... Sri Lanka's most eminent architect, Geoffrey Bawa, has died aged 82. Born in Colombo to a Muslim father and Dutch mother, Bawa designed around 50 private houses and 20 hotels, as well as schools, university buildings, churches, Buddhist...

Modernist pioneer Gwynne dies at 90. (News).(Gwynne, Patrick)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
June 6, 2003... One of the pioneers of the modernist architecture movement, Patrick Gwynne, has died aged 90. Gwynne was perhaps best known for his design of Homewood, a Corbesque two-storey bungalow in Esher, Surrey, built for his parents in 1938 and later...

Improving park life. (News).(Cabe Space Ltd. scheme)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2003... Cabe Space has launched a scheme to help more than 60 local authorities develop management strategies for parks and urban spaces. For more information or an application form, see www.cabespace.org.uk. The application deadline is 21 July.

London 'roadmap'. (News).(sustainable development)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2003... London Mayor, Ken Livingstone, yesterday launched the London Sustainability Framework. Intended as a "roadmap" for turning London into a sustainable city, the framework will be the basis for assessments of the Mayor's London Plan.

Lighthouse attraction. (News).(Architecture Week 2003 )(Brief Article)
June 6, 2003... The Lighthouse, Scotland's national centre for architecture in Glasgow, has announced details of its Architecture Week 2003 from 21-29 June, which includes two exhibitions and the publication of a survey of recent Scottish architecture. E-mail...

Ipswich consultation. (News).(Shillam and Smith Architecture and Urbanism)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2003... Shillam & Smith is to carry out a consultation on the proposed development on the Ipswich northern fringe, which will create a new community, with 1,500 new homes, a new district shopping centre and a school.

RIBA's education policy tails the test. (Analysis & Comment).
June 6, 2003... The RIBA has a hunch. Our future architects are suffering at the hands of ideologue teachers who prefer to keep their theoretical position quiet until exam time. Then, wallop! Any project that grates against their ideological preference is...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
June 6, 2003... Lucky numbers From Peter Phillips, Surrey I cannot understand why George Ferguson, the new RIBA president, is so keen to see the size of the RIBA Council reduced (BD May 23). In my view not only is this unnecessary, but it would...

A woman's place: architecture without empathy is nothing. We need women to strike a balance. (Comment & Analysis).
June 6, 2003... So, courtesy of BD and RIBA research, we have a bit more objective proof of what we all know to be true, that women don't have the mental capabilities to be good architects, that their brains have evolved differently and lack our spatial...

Bristol fashion. (Concrete Boots).(Feilden Clegg Bradley Architects 25th anniversary party)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2003... Feilden Clegg Bradley's 25th anniversary party in Bristol last week sounded like a fun affair. The cake was cut by "local celebrity" Lady Margaret Oswick (pictured with Richard Feilden), who also presented the practice with a mantelpiece for...

Baghdad bulletin. (Concrete Boots).(architect's Web site)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2003... Like a jewel in the dust, a 29-year-old Baghdad man called Salam has been sending some of the most fascinating dispatches to the rest of the world via a daily web log (http://dear_raed.blogspot.com) He raffles on for hours each day about...

Foster in favour. (Concrete Boots).(Norman Foster on Teacher Training Agency advertising)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2003... An advert for the Teacher Training Agency in the national press this week featured images of famous figures from history, including Anne Frank, Albert Einstein, Malcolm X, Mahatma Ghandi and William Shakespeare. And who should be peering out of...

Have-a-go hero. (Concrete Boots).(Mark Wallacy of Wallacy Horsewood Partnership)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2003... The practice at the centre of a design row in Caernarfon, north Wales, kept a brave face on things this week. Mark Wallacy of the Wallacy Horsewood Partnership, whose mixed-use scheme in the town has attracted criticism from Welsh heritage...

Departing gestures. (Concrete Boots).(architects' obituaries)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2003... Architects are getting more column inches in the national press for dropping dead than anything else these days. Philip Powell, Geoffrey Bawa and Max Nasatyr all commanded almost full-page obituaries in the broadsheets in recent days. It...

Media darlings. (Concrete Boots).(architects appear on cover of magazine)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2003... A group of unprepossessing architects appeared on the diary page of Hello! magazine this week -- usually reserved for the antics of Posh & Becks. But James King of Sheppard Robson, David Richmond and Veronique Despreaux of David Richmond &...

Graz entertainment. (Comment & Analysis).(Graz, Austria, current European Capital of Culture)
June 6, 2003... With the European capital of culture circus heading to Britain in 2008, Robert Booth visits this year's capital and finds a [pounds sterling]190 million architectural programme in search of a purpose. Will Liverpool suffer a similar experience?...

When Zaha met Frank: Frank Lloyd Wright's Price Tower is to get the Zaha Hadid treatment. A brave but heartening move, writes Ellis Woodman. (Perspective).(Critical Essay)
June 6, 2003... Frank Lloyd Wright's HG Price Company Tower has already undergone one major change of context since the first designs were drawn up in 1929. Originally conceived for a site in New York City, the scheme was killed off by the stock market crash...

Showcase.(Advertisement)
June 6, 2003... New senior appointments within The Arnold Laver Group The Arnold Laver Group is pleased to announce that Andrew Laver has been appointed as Group Managing Director, with David Laver taking the role as Chairman, with immediate effect. Andrew...

Two-faced: Lifschutz Davidson's speculative office building in London's Covent Garden is a benchmark of quality, compromised only by its retained Edwardian facade. (Building Study).(Critical Essay)
June 6, 2003... The world of speculative office development is not renowned as a hotbed of innovation. Caught between letting agents preaching a gospel of risk limitation and shareholders baying for fast returns, it is a brave developer that challenges the...

Tower struggle: Norman Foster's Sky High exhibit at the Royal Academy summer show lacks drama. (Culture).(Critical Essay)
June 6, 2003... You either love or hate the Royal Academy's summer exhibition -- the vast spectrum of the nation's artistic talent on show, en masse. In an age when the programmes of large cultural venues such as the RA are driven by visitor and income targets...

Back to the Futuro: the Futuro house is still seen as futuristic 35 years on, as a new book demonstrates.(Matti Suuronen)(Book Review)
June 6, 2003... Designed in 1968 by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen, the Futuro house was a classic flying saucer prefab -- an ellipsoid shell constructed in fibreglass reinforced polyester plastic, with ellipse-shaped acrylic windows, door handles, light...

The public vote: the Royal Scottish Academy's annual exhibition offers a timely overview of the profession, but needs to engage more meaningfully with its audience.(Critical Essay)
June 6, 2003... Although invariably convinced of their own talent, architects struggle to convince a sceptical public of their genius. Many prefer to seek refuge in peer approval but the Royal Scottish Academy's Annual Exhibition demands a different response,...

Diary.(Brief Article)(Calendar)
June 6, 2003... LECTURES FRIDAY * Kthryn Findlay, thinking forms. Venue The Lighthouse, 11 Mitchell Lane, Glasgow. 6.30pm. Cost [pounds sterling]6.50. Details 01419466600. MONDAY * Norman Foster, skyscrapers. Venue...

Happy camping. (Back Space).("camp" furnishings)(Critical Essay)
June 6, 2003... Ten years ago I joined a group of National Trust regional committee members who were visiting The Homewood, Esher, the 1939 house that its architect, Patrick Gwynne, who died on May 3, had then just offered them as a gift. Above the...

Ian Martin.
June 6, 2003... Monday To the RIPBA, where I join a distinguished committee of reformers and zealots charged with creating new project work stages. Great progress has been made -- we have recently approved Stage M (post-occupancy evaluation with flow...

Celts crack down on fees: Scottish and Welsh governments attempt to control architects' payments in long-awaited move to protect tax-players' money.
June 13, 2003... Politicians in charge of new parliament buildings in Cardiff and Edinburgh launched parallel limits on architects' fees this week. George Reid, the presiding officer of the Scottish parliament, declared himself "angry" at the latest [pounds...

Ban on assembly 'blank cheques'.(Welsh Assembly to ban monthly payments to contractors)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2003... The Welsh Assembly is to ban monthly payments on the construction of its [pounds sterling]30 millionplus debating chamber in Cardiff after the Audit Commission criticised the monthly fees paid to preferred designer Richard Rogers Partnership...

Architects support euro. (News).(Brief Article)
June 13, 2003... UK Architects came out in strong support of Britain joining the euro this week after the government effectively ruled out UK. entry for at least three years. The decision not to hold a referendum until after the next general election, at...

Money talks. (News).(quotations )(Brief Article)
June 13, 2003... John Oldridqe, equity director Chapman Taylor: "We would welcome the currency stability... Prosperity and growth would be stronger because of it." Marco Goldschmied, Richard Rogers Partnership: "British architects have got a lot more to...

Bromley on go. (News).(Biscoe & Stanton Architects and Townshend Landscape Architects get planning pemission)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2003... Biscoe & Stanton Architects and Townshend Landscape Architects have received planning permission for a mixed-use scheme at Bow Locks in Bromley-by-Bow, east London. The 1.4ha development includes a 140-room hotel and twin 14storey canal-side...

Green tower. (News).(Cole Thompson Associates)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2003... Cole Thompson Associates has unveiled plans to transform a 22-storey block for the elderly in Pimlico, south London, into a green tower. Sustainable features include a 4m-high wind turbine and photovoltaic panels on the roof, rainwater...

Sporting chance. (News).(Gollifer Langston Architects gets contract for performing arts centre and sports pavilion)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2003... Gollifer Langston Architects has beaten Bennetts Associates, ECD Architects, van Heyningen & Haward Architects, Haverstock Associates and Allies & Morrison Architects to design a new [pounds sterling]2.4 million performing arts centre and a...

Brum conference. (News).(Birmingham conference on development)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2003... BD's sister publication Property Week and Locate in Birmingham are holding a conference there on July 8 on the [pounds sterling]9 billion of development to be carried out in the city over the next 10 years. The keynote speaker is Selfridges...

Water stories. (News).(Kevin Holmes gets 2003 Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship for waterways research)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2003... Kevin Holmes, senior urban designer for British Waterways, has been awarded a 2003 Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship to research waterside development in northern Europe and Scandinavia. Anyone wishing to help him compile an itinerary can...

Firm resignations. (News).(Brief Article)
June 13, 2003... Woods Bagot has announced the resignation of two architects -- Zsolt Moldan and Richard Chapman.

Hall: failure to axe VAT on brownfield 'stupid'. (News).(Peter Hall on value-added tax on brownfield development)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2003... The government's failure to axe VAT on the development of brownfield sites has been branded "stupid" by a key member of the Urban Task Force. Peter Hall, one of the country's most eminent planners, told BD that the failure to cut VAT on...

Liverpool to host biennale. (News).(Brief Article)
June 13, 2003... Liverpool is set to host an architecture biennale in 2008, complete with specially-designed pavilions from' international architects. The move follows the award last week of the title of European Capital of Culture 2008. Design leaders...

Laban protest over 'glass monster'. (News).(Laban dance centre protests new high-rise mixed-use buildings next door)
June 13, 2003... A Broadway Malyan scheme described by objectors as "a great glass monster" was last week approved by Greenwich council despite claims that it would ruin views of Herzog & de Meuron's celebrated Laban dance centre next door. Objectors now...

French connection for social housing design. (News).(Brief Article)
June 13, 2003... Cabe and its French equivalent the Direction de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine (DAPA) this week shortlisted seven Anglo-French colloborations to develop ideas for social housing at White City and Rayners Lane in London. The shortlisted...

Eric Parry gives new life to St Martin's. (News).(Eric Parry Architects)(St Martin-in-the-Fields church)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2003... Eric Parry Architects has unveiled plans for a [pounds sterling]34 million regeneration of St Martin-in-the-Fields church at Trafalgar Square, London. The scheme, which went in for planning this week, restores part of James Gibb's 1721...

RRP to integrate IT into street furniture. (News).(Richard Rogers Partnership designs digital street furniture)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2003... Richard Rogers Partnership's designs will become even harder to avoid in future if a scheme to develop bus shelters, rubbish bins and other "street furniture" with digital facades comes to fruition. Under the scheme, still at final concept...

Confusion likely over delayed planning bill. (News).(Critical Essay)
June 13, 2003... Architects face another year of confusion over what future planning system they will work under after the government confirmed this week that final publication of the planning bill would be delayed while additions and revisions were made. ...

Foster's right hand man is appointed to Cabe. (News).(Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment)(Ken Shuttleworth)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2003... Foster & Partners' director Ken Shuttleworth has been appointed as a Cabe commissioner. Shuttleworth was appointed last week along with Louisa Hutton, co-founder of Berlin-based practice Sauerbruch Hutton. Shuttleworth, widely regarded...

Mixed response to Wren church space scheme. (News).(Critical Essay)
June 13, 2003... Plans to transform space around a Sir Christopher Wren church in London's Holborn have been met with delight by local businesses, but caution by the planning authority. Under the scheme by Brady & Mallalieu Architects (B&M), planting and...

East London regeneration contest. (News).(Brief Article)
June 13, 2003... Latest competitions to be launched by the RIBA include two schemes to regenerate the Brooks Estate in Plaistow, London. Organised on behalf of the London Borough of Newham, one competition involves the refurbishment of low-rise housing on...

Re thinking school design. (News).(architectural think tank )(Brief Article)
June 13, 2003... Architects including Marks Barfield, Alsop Architects and Wilkinson Eyre were this week revealed as members of the government's latest architectural think tank on school design. These practices are on a list of 11 chosen from a shortlist of...

Urbed set to spearhead Oldham regeneration. (News).
June 13, 2003... Oldham could become a new hub for creative industries under plans being drawn up by regeneration specialist Urbed to tackle racial tensions and economic decline in the northern town. Oldham Borough Council and the North West Development...

Nanotechnology to change glass. (News).(Brief Article)
June 13, 2003... With the flick of a switch, signs and background colours within glass office partitions can be changed, under pioneering nanotechnology set to be used for the first time next month. Working in a similar way to silk-screening, ink is...

Museum sculptor named. (News).(Natural History Museum sculptor identified)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2003... The discovery of a rare album of 66 original drawings by the Natural History Museum's architect, Alfred Waterhouse, has confirmed that M Dujardin, a largely unknown French craftsman, was the sculptor behind the terracotta creatures that adorn...

Rivals vie for Croydon site. (News).(Croydon Gateway site )(Brief Article)
June 13, 2003... Developer Stanhope's appeal against a public inquiry's rejection of its mixed-use proposals for the Croydon Gateway site will be heard next week. Architects Foster & Partners and CZWG have produced new drawings for an appeal that will be...

War criminals wait on Sierra Leone court: Victorious Norman & Dawburn has just six months to deliver. (News).
June 13, 2003... Norman & Dawbarn, fresh from celebrating its winning bid to design a United Nations court building in Sierra Leone, must now deliver the building in just six months. The London-based practice beat more than 40 international firms to win...

Architects should defy Holyrood spin. (Comment & Analysis).(Brian Stewart of RMJM on his firms' contract to build the Scottish Assembly)
June 13, 2003... In a rare interview last April, RMJM managing director Brian Stewart told BD his firm was finding its involvement in building the Scottish Assembly, "unhelpful", "an impediment" and "distracting" to the practice's progress. He must be...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
June 13, 2003... House style Robert Adam, Hampshire The hysteria and misinformation in last week's article and leader about the recent RIBA educational policy only goes to demonstrate the need for it. The policy being criticised was not directly...

Errata.(Correction Notice)
June 13, 2003... * Last week's story on Cabe's latest design review wrongly stated that the Croydon Gateway scheme being reviewed was by Michael Aukett Architects for developer Arrowcroft. The scheme being reviewed was in fact another proposal for Croydon...

PFI is a true curate's egg: embracing creativity is the key to PFI's cultural success. (Comment & Analysis).
June 13, 2003... A famous 19th century Punch cartoon lampooned the deferential attitude of those who put up with the unsatisfactory. The bishop, providing lunch for a new curate, sees that the kitchen has served him a bad egg. The curate, surveying the smelly...

Lego legends. (Concrete Boots).(Duncan Titchmarsh)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2003... Who says the national media doesn't take architecture seriously. RIBA vice-president and BD columnist Richard Saxon was granted valuable air time on the Today Programme on Tuesday morning to discuss, of all things, Lego. Game-for-a-laugh...

Female view. (Concrete Boots).(Oscar Niemeyer's opinion on using curves in builidng designs)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2003... More fantastic proclamations from architects, this time from Oscar "love machine" Niemeyer who has been explaining his decision to move away from Corb's corners to a more curvy architecture. "In the mountains of my country, in the sinuousness...

Regional bias. (Concrete Boots).
June 13, 2003... A footnote on Lady Margaret Oswick, Feilden Clegg Bradley's special guest at its 25th birthday bash in Bath. The "lady" is upset. We had it that she was in Bristol and Richard Feilden writes in to pointout she does not like to be too closely...

School din. (Concrete Boots).(Norman and Dawbam's office)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2003... Norman & Dawbam's office in London's Covent Garden backs onto a school playground, so sitting next to the open door of a small back yard at the rear of the firm's office last week brought back memories as the sound of boisterous children filled...

Rock and a hard place. (Concrete Boots).(U2 studio design competition)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2003... Designs are emerging from the competition for a new studio for rock band U2 and a 60m "landmark" tower in Dublin. The story has always prompted a healthy response from architects logging onto the message board at archiseek.com and this week is...

Style challenge: the RIBA announced two new education policies last week. David Dunster is not impressed. (Comment & Analysis).(Royal Institute of British Architects)(Critical Essay)
June 13, 2003... So the RIBA has two new education policies: first, there should be no hidden prejudice against any one style; second, it welcomes teaching traditional construction (aka classical architecture). Er, fight. The RIBA says Schosa agrees with this...

Fleeting fancies: speed of construction and an opportunity for experimentation partly define the appeal of temporary structures. But how does it feel when it's all over? (The Specialists).(Mark Fisher designs temporary structures)
June 13, 2003... Country music fans hardly need to be told that Shania Twain will be performing in Hyde Park in just under one month. Mark Fisher needs no reminding either. He's just met country's queen bee to talk about designing her stage for the event. And...

Light houses. (Building Study).(Critical Essay)
June 13, 2003... Whatcott's Yard comprises three residences, each designed by the architect occupier, within one building. It is an interesting example of production-line architecture, says Ellis Woodman but it wouldn't work on a larger scale. At first...