Building Design articles from October 2003

Building Design archives from October 2003

Battersea in traffic jam: GLA members hope transport issues could hold up or even halt plans to transform Battersea Power Station into theme park.(Greater London Assembly )
October 3, 2003... Members of the Greater London Assembly are seeking to block the massive scheme to redevelop Battersea Power Station masterplanned by Philip Dowson. As behind the scenes manoeuvring over the future of the derelict landmark gathered pace,...

Foster in Ground Zero team.(Foster & Partners)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2003... Foster & Partners this week joined the architects working on the Ground Zero site in New York after being appointed to design one of the five office blocks outlined in Daniel Libeskind's masterplan. Foster's will collaborate with Skidmore,...

Studio Weil, the first domestic project by Daniel Libeskind, for the sculptor Barbara Weil has been completed.(News)
October 3, 2003... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Studio Weil, the first domestic project by Daniel Libeskind, for the sculptor Barbara Weil has been completed. The 433,000 [pounds sterling] studio/house overlooks the sea at Port d'Andratx on the island of...

Arb: 5 [pounds sterling] rise to be 'architect'.(News: Architect's Registration Board raises fees)
October 3, 2003... A triple whammy of extra expenses has forced Arb to raise its retention fee for the second year in a row. The right to hold the title "architect" will cost 5 [pounds sterling] more from next year after Arb moved to cover a 45,000 [pounds...

More anti-ellipse evidence.(News)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2003... New sketches showing how Grimshaw's proposed elliptical extension to London's Royal College of Art would block the Royal Albert Hall have beer lodged with the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM). The ODPM, which is considering...

DSDHA has won planning permission for the Paradise Park Children's Centre in Islington, London.(News)
October 3, 2003... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: DSDHA has won planning permission for the Paradise Park Children's Centre in Islington, London. Islington council made anexception to its Unitary Development Plan because the centre would help regenerate the...

Alsop health centre as doubts costs soar.(News)
October 3, 2003... Alsop Architects' proposed 14 [pounds sterling] million health and community centre in Stonebridge is "under review" after going 2 million [pounds sterling] over budget. The plan to help regenerate the tough north-west London area with a...

TV show under fire.(News: Will Alsop's TV series about urban design)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2003... The first part of Will Alsop's TV series presenting his radical Z-shaped masterplan for Britain was broadcast last week to a chorus of scepticism from leading architects and planners. The first of the three half-hour Channel 4 programmes,...

Vinoly rethinks Leicester theatre.(News: Rafael Vinoly Architects)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2003... Rafael Vinoly Architects is working on alternative proposals for its 60 million [pounds sterling] performing arts centre in Leicester after it emerged that a Victorian building facing demolition to make way for the building could be...

Magyar Marsoni Architects has gained planning permission for a 650,000 [pounds sterling] modernist-style house on a sloping site in Guilford, Surrey.(News)
October 3, 2003... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Magyar Marsoni Architects has gained planning permission for a 650,000 [pounds sterling] modernist-style house on a sloping site in Guildford, Surrey. The scheme is expected to start on site in the spring.

School icon set to become housing.(News: Oaklands College site)
October 3, 2003... The prospect of saving an iconic 1960s modernist college building in St Albans, Hertfordshire, from being redeveloped into housing looked bleak this week when it was confirmed that the college has begun to dispose of the site. Fairview New...

A remodelling of a Georgian house in Wetherby, Yorkshire, designed by OMI Architects has been completed.(News)
October 3, 2003... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: A remodelling of a Georgian house in Wetherby, Yorkshire, designed by OMI Architects has been completed. The 600,000 [pounds sterling] scheme includes a modernist extension overlooking the river Wharfe and...

Rogers ups the ante on flat VAT.(BD Campaign: value added tax)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2003... The cross party parliamentary group on architecture and planning is demanding that Gordon Brown seize his chance to abolish VAT on all forms of construction. Led by Richard Rogers and Debra Shipley MP, the group has called on the...

ADC Architects has received approval for the Idea Centre, a 2.2 million [pounds sterling] digital and electrical arts scheme in Salford.(News)
October 3, 2003... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: ADC Architects has received approval for the Idea Centre, a 2.2 million [pounds sterling] digital and electrical arts scheme in Salford. The 4,225 sq m converted warehouse in the Chapel Street Regeneration...

Ferguson: planning needs architects.(News: Royal Institute of British Architects)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2003... RIBA president George Ferguson was this week set to call for architects to be appointed on each of the new regional planning bodies proposed in the forthcoming planning bill. Ferguson, scheduled to speak at a fringe meeting at the Labour...

NY outcry over Foster tower #2: residents fear building will destroy local area's character.(News)
October 3, 2003... A zoom-plus tower by Foster & Partners in New York has attracted criticism from local residents, who fear it will destroy the character of the area, overshadow a local park and over whelm the capacity of the local schools. The residential...

Calatrava concert hall makes waves.(News)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2003... The first performing arts facility designed by world-renowned architect-engineer Santiago Calatrava opened in Tenerife last week. The Tenerife Auditorium, on a 2ha ocean-front site at Santa Cruz, comprises a 1,660-seat concert hall and...

Quarters contest.(News: DIFA-Award 2004 )(Brief Article)
October 3, 2003... A pan-European competition has been launched to find the best new inner-city "quarters". The DIFA-Award 2004 is open to towns across Europe with 100,000 or more inhabitants and is awarded to completed projects that have achieved "a tangible...

Bid for 1,600 homes.(News)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2003... A scheme to build 1,600 homes was launched this week by the Housing Corporation and English Partnerships. Under the plans, Genesis Housing Group will develop 1,100 homes in Crawley, Hemel Hempstead, Stevenage, Northampton, Welwyn Garden City...

Skills shortage push.(News)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2003... The government last week launched ConstructionSkills, aimed at tackling skills shortages in the industry. The council brings together CITB Great Britain, CITB Northern Ireland and the Construction Industry Council.

Sustainability forum.(Royal Institute of British Architects' conference on energy efficiency and sustainable design)(Calendar)
October 3, 2003... The RIBA's Sustainable Futures group is to hold Tomorrow's World: Delivering on Sustainability, a conference on energy efficiency and sustainable design, at London's Olympia at Earl's Court on October 21. Speakers will include RIBA president...

Dublin tower riddle: Irish architecture scene abuzz at mystery over winning design for U2 studio.(News)
October 3, 2003... The hunt is on to track down the mystery practice that won one of the world's most high-profile design competitions and then couldn't be found. The unknown designer is understood to have beaten more than 500 other entries in a design...

RTKL has released new images of the 90,000sq m Capital Towers in Dubai, which recently started on site.(photo caption)
October 3, 2003... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: RTKL has released new images of the 90,000sq m Capital Towers in Dubai, which recently started on site. It features a blue glass skin which wraps around two separate towers.

SpacelabUK has won planning permission for a 600,000 [pounds sterling] scheme to design a coffee shop.(photo caption)
October 3, 2003... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: SpacelabUK has won planning permission for a 600,000 [pounds sterling] scheme to design a coffee shop and an external pavilion on top of the boiler house roof at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London.

Reprieve for Irish developer.(News)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2003... A Northern Irish developer threatened with High Court action for demolishing two listed buildings in County Londonderry without permission looks set to continue developing the site. NM Developments, based in Londonderry, is in consultation...

Signs that Labour may be listening.(European procurement rules)
October 3, 2003... Very slowly, and without much fanfare, the conditions for the procurement of decent design in the UK could be changing for the better. In this week of raw personality politics at the Labour Party conference, policy announcements made little...

Tate and guile.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
October 3, 2003... Your article "Tower hits Tate wall" (News September 26) referred to development proposals by London Town for a residential tower block located just 50m from the western entrance to Tate Modern, and Tate's own proposals for its western...

Take the high road.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
October 3, 2003... Who is this "Jury"? ("Jury out on Gehry centre" News September 26.) What are the "needs of the site"? Do we perhaps catch a whiff of sour grapes? Hot in the news this week was the "rediscovery" of composer Antonio Salieri, reputed by some to...

VAT of confusion.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
October 3, 2003... I am an architect/director of a small development company that converts and develops buildings for residential use in the south Manchester/north Cheshire area. The company tries to identify buildings that would not be of interest to new-build...

Timespam.(Letters)
October 3, 2003... 1953 Dirk Bogarde and companion envisage a Tate Modern. 2003 Environmental network braves a hostile climate. 2043 Liverpool-to-Hull goes all Barnsley. [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED]

One rule for them.(Letters)(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
October 3, 2003... Regarding your Flat VAT campaign, why does the Treasury persist in saying that the EU prevents adjustments to UK construction VAT rates? France charges standard rate VAT on construction, but a reduced rate of 5% on housing repairs and...

Schlock tactics.(Letters)(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
October 3, 2003... In response to Sean Griffiths (Back space September 19), as a fully paid-up B-list architect myself, I found Griffiths' article about professional architects undernourished and obtuse. While it is wrong to make any comments regarding the...

Future vision?(Letters)(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
October 3, 2003... Regarding Supercities UK on Channel 4 last Friday. How sad that when an architect gets primetime on TV to represent some current architectural thinking, he promotes a string of such dated, clapped-out ideas. I could hardly believe my ears...

Correction.(Letters)(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)(Correction Notice)
October 3, 2003... I refer to the item "House of Pain finally finished" (News September 26). Richard Pain and I were in partnership for three years until April 2002. The practice name was Pain & Phillips. The house in Chelsea was a project that I inherited...

Projects to kilt for: give local talent a chance to create world-class architecture in Scotland.(Comment & Analysis)
October 3, 2003... I'm happy that Gehry has built in Scotland, though terribly frustrated at what our reactions to such an event say about our confidence up here. Did Sebastian Tombs of the RIAS really claim that no Scottish architect would be so adventurous? ...

Give us a smile.(Concrete Boots)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2003... Will Alsop regaled television viewers this week with a definition of the role of the architect and other professions within the built environment that will warm the cockles of hearts everywhere. He said in the first part of his new TV show...

Housing ambition.(Concrete Boots)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2003... Not that we really see any parallels between the well-built John Prescott and Will Alsop, but it seems they both struggled with their expression this week. The insightful edge of the deputy prime minister's housing policy was there for all to...

Am I early?(Concrete Boots)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2003... The Twentieth Century Society is so confident that it has saved the iconic 1930s Greenside house in Wentworth designed by Connell Ward & Lucas that it threw a party this week to celebrate its victory even though the final decision on whether to...

Pulling them in.(Concrete Boots: Future Systems)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2003... How much is your architecture worth? The answer for Future Systems can be found in the pitter patter of Brummies' feet. As many as 1.2 million shoppers have crossed the threshold of its Self ridges store in Birmingham in the last four...

Three of the best.(Concrete Boots)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2003... Word on the street in New York is that architects are cool. Fortune magazine is even getting in on the act with a guide on its website on what to say about architecture at that chic dinner party. "Quick--name your favorite architect. Hmm. Can...

NY state of whine.(Concrete Boots)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2003... Still with New York, a column in city tabloid NY Daily News by Lore Croghan is less than flattering about Foster & Partners' plans for a residential tower in Tribeca. Croghan says Foster's director Brandon Haw "failed to charm neighbourhood...

Birmingham's new ringmaster: as Birmingham's new design adviser, Philip Singleton will become one of the most influential architects in the city. Karen Glaser spoke to him.(Comment & Analysis)
October 3, 2003... "Birmingham is on the verge of greatness and the rest of the country seems to be waking up to that fact. So why aren't Brummies?" The question appeared in Saturday's Birmingham Post, but it might easily have been asked by Philip Singleton. ...

Debutante RIBA takes to the party scene: a newcomer to the party conference circuit, the RIBA is going all out on its seaside charm offensive.(Comment & Analysis: Royal Institute of British Architects )
October 3, 2003... This week marks the midway point of the RIBA's first party conference tour. And while president George Ferguson's trademark red trousers may strike more of a chord at Labour's annual shindig than at the Tory or Liberal Democrat gatherings, the...

Skywriter: creating two houses on top of Fulham's Piper Building allowed Pierre d'Avoine to develop his notions of developing interstitial space.(Building Study)
October 3, 2003... When the massive Piper Building in Fulham, west London, was converted to flats by Lifchitz Davidson in 1999 each flat was separately serviced. This left redundant the extensive rooftop plant that once housed switch rooms and water tanks for the...

Eclosure acts: hidden from the street, a development of two Bristol houses exploits its unusual, hillside site to reveal a distinct and exotic character.(Building Study)
October 3, 2003... Cobourg Road is a street of rather grand detached houses overlooking the historic city centre of Bristol. You'll find it in Montpelier--one of a number of suburbs developed in the late 18th century on land elevated above the marshes that...

Made for Maggie: the opening of Maggie's Centre in Dundee was marked by a study of how these new buildings can help to heal. Richard Carr looks at a growing architectural phenomenon.(Culture)
October 3, 2003... What is an appropriate aesthetic for cancer care? That was the sensitive subject of Breathing Space, the first in-depth study of a new architectural phenomenon, Maggie's Centre. Held last weekend at Dundee Contemporary Arts, the symposium...

Bass space: architecture or sculpture? A bit of both, but there is no doubt David Adjaye's first solo exhibit in Manchester is a spiritual treat for the senses.(Culture)
October 3, 2003... The Cube in Manchester is the venue for David Adjaye's first solo exhibition, a specially commissioned architectural pavilion entitled The Asymmetric Chamber. Standing in contrast to the high-budget patronage of many of his previous...

On the bookshelf.(Culture)(Bibliography)
October 3, 2003... Eduardo Souto de Moura: Stein Element Stone, by Werner Blase. Birkhauser, HB, 96pp.19.70 [pounds sterling] Study of the influential Portuguese architect's use of stone as a building material. Bi-lingual with mainly black-and-white...

Diary.(Brief Article)(Calendar)
October 3, 2003... LECTURES MONDAY The LKE Ozolins Lecture: Urban Ecology of Detroit, Kyong Park. Venue RIBA,66 Portland Place, London. 6.30pm.Cost 7 [pounds sterling] Details 020 7307 3699. WEDNESDAY Saskia Sassen, professor at Chicago University,...

How en suite life is today.(Back Space)
October 3, 2003... What is it about the en suite? Why is it that the first thing an estate agent has to tell me about a house is the number of en suite bathrooms it has? Why does every teenager aspire to their own en suite? Now, pleased though I am that I...

Ian Martin.
October 3, 2003... Monday A letter from BABAR, the elephantine constabulary for epic space: "Dear Registered Architect. thank you for your correspondence questioning the remit of our powers. We have taken legal advice on this and in conclusion found it very...

Bets are on Stirling outsider.(Brief Article)
October 10, 2003... The outsider on the shortlist for the Stirling Prize has attracted the most money from hopeful punters, according to bookmaker William Hill. Sutherland Hussey Architects' Tiree Shelter in Scotland has proved popular with the punters, even...

Rem Koolhaas has completed his first building in north America, the 29 million [pounds sterling] McCormick Tribune Campus Centre, Chicago.(Brief Article)
October 10, 2003... Rem Koolhaas has completed his first building in north America, the 29 million [pounds sterling] McCormick Tribune Campus Centre, Chicago. The building, part of the Illinois Institute of Technology, features distinctive tube-shaped acoustic...

RIBA urges freedom to cram.(Royal Institute of British Architects)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2003... The RIBA is set to call for planning law to be abandoned in key areas of Britain's towns and cities to give architects and developers greater freedom to build much-needed housing. The institute's ruling council will next week consider plans...

Labour looks to US utopia: Prescott learns from Truman Show town to fix housing crisis.(Brief Article)
October 10, 2003... A Florida new town used to satirise contrived American suburbia in the film The Truman Show is the latest inspiration in Labour's bid to solve the housing crisis. Deputy prime minister John Prescott is intending to draw lessons from...

Foster to downsize Beijing Airport plan.(News)
October 10, 2003... Foster & Partners has been asked to resubmit designs at a reduced scale for a new terminal at Beijing Airport. The three shortlisted bidders for the 650 million [pounds sterling] terminal building--Fosters (with Arup and French airport...

Conference plot for US invasion: RIBA USA event to guide UK architects on setting up Stateside.(News)
October 10, 2003... The RIBA's New York chapter is plotting an invasion of British architects to the US with a major international conference aimed at UK practices wanting to set up Stateside. New York chapter chairman Jonathan Wimpenny told BD this week that...

Office award for GHM.(News)("Best of the Best" award)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2003... GHM Rock Townsend won the "Best of the Best" award, for the Pentland International headquarters in London, at the British Council for Offices Awards earlier this week at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London. Other winners included Alan Murray...

Cabe success guide.(News)(Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2003... Cabe has issued a guide for clients outlining 10 factors crucial to the success of a project. Creating Excellent Buildings: A Guide for Clients recommends strong leadership from clients, a clear brief, realistic budgets and a commitment to...

Innovation contest.(News: Royal Institute of British Architects)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2003... The RIBA has launched a two-stage open international competition on behalf of the East of England Development Agency to design a 4 million [pounds sterling] Innovation Centre in Peterborough. The deadline for stage one submissions is November...

Foster German prize.(News)(Quadriga national award )(Brief Article)
October 10, 2003... Norman Foster has been awarded Germany's Quadriga national award for his renovation of Berlin's 19th century Reichstag parliament building in Berlin. Foster & Partners, which completed the building in 1999, was awarded the 25,000 [euro] Friend...

RSPB unveils Rainham winner.(News)(Royal Society for the Protection of Birds set to open reserve )(Brief Article)
October 10, 2003... Van Heyningen & Haward Architects has won the competition to design an environmental and education centre on a new bird reserve at Rainham Marshes in the Thames Gateway development area. The firm beat Caruso St John, Tony Fretton Architects...

Cabe and EH face new funding fight: minister responsible for architecture talks to BD about funding, listing and the Shard.(News, English Heritage)
October 10, 2003... Architecture and heritage bodies could face tough funding cuts as part of the government's latest "fast and dirty" spending review. Heritage minister Andrew McIntosh told BD last week he would have to fight just to keep English Heritage's...

Human Rights Act risk in listing system.(News)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2003... The heritage listings system should be reformed to take into account the Human Rights Act, according to heritage minister Andrew McIntosh. McIntosh told BD the reform of the listings process, which is out to consultation until the end of...

Shard would spoil view.(News: Renzo Piano's London Bridge Tower could destroy views of St Paul's Cathedral)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2003... Heritage minister Andrew McIntosh told BD that if Renzo Piano's London Bridge Tower is built it would destroy one of his favourite views of St Paul's Cathedral. The recent public inquiry into the 300m-high tower, known as the Shard of...

Sheppard Robson has submitted a 20-storey office building in the City of London for detailed planning permission.(News)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2003... Sheppard Robson has submitted a 20-storey office building in the City of London for detailed planning permission. The site is close to the Tower of London, but remains below the protected view of the Tower of London World Heritage Site from...

Hill: turn space over shops into new housing: feasibility study into use of 300,000 redundant properties.(News)
October 10, 2003... The government has launched a feasibility study into how the 300,000 redundant properties above shops can be used for much-needed new housing. Housing minister Keith Hill told BD the feasibility study was designed to "see what kind of...

Work has started on Zaha Hadid's extension of the Ordrupgaard Museum, Copenhagen.(News)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2003... Work has started on Zaha Hadid's extension of the Ordrupgaard Museum, Copenhagen. The 1,150sq m scheme offers exhibition space for a permanent collection of Danish and French late 19th and early 20th century paintings, temporary exhibition...

Hodder in talks over Clissold.(News: Hodder Associates, Clissold Leisure Centre)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2003... Hodder Associates and Hackney council are in legal talks to try to settle the dispute over the Clissold Leisure Centre in north London. The design team's legal representatives met the council two weeks ago to discuss Hackney's legal claim...

Tory call for religious tax break.(News: Michael Howard campaigns for tax break for houses of worship)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2003... Shadow chancellor Michael Howard is campaigning for the European Commission to reform VAT on construction to give repairs to listed places of worship a tax break. The Conservative Party frontbencher wrote to BD this week after being...

Murphy in Harlow line-up.(News: Richard Murphy Architects)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2003... Richard Murphy Architects is the latest practice to be signed up to a trailblazing housing scheme in Harlow, Essex. The Edinburgh-based firm joins Proctor Matthews and PCKO in a housing procurement experiment that will see architects chosen...

Chelsea boss makes NBBJ latest signing.(News: NBBJ Architects )
October 10, 2003... The Russian billionaire owner of Chelsea Football Club, Roman Abramovich, has made a new signing: NBBJ Architects. The US practice, which also has an office near London's Tower Bridge, has been working with the acquisitive Abramovich on...

Germany's Behnisch tries for first UK job.(News)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2003... German architect Behnisch & Behnisch will take another shot at winning its first UK commission this autumn, competing with an all-star cast on the shortlist for a new art gallery in Colchester, Essex. The practice is well established in its...

'A third of building sites unsafe'.(News)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2003... The Health & Safety Executive's recent safety inspection blitz found more than a third of construction sites were well below current safety standards. Inspectors visited 1,429 sites across the country last month and the HSE is considering...

Malcolm Fraser Architects' 2.5 million [pounds sterling] Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh will start on site this month.(News)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2003... Malcolm Fraser Architects' 2.5 million [pounds sterling] Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh will start on site this month. The project, partly funded by the Scottish Arts Council National Lottery, includes a new resource and education...

Arb fines architect for misconduct.(News)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2003... The Arb's Professional Conduct Committee has found architect John Charles Rossiter of Coventry guilty on two counts of unacceptable professional conduct. He has been fined 1,500 [pounds sterling]. Rossiter was last week found guilty of...

Rogers' urban design unit faces inquiry.(News: Richard Rogers' Architecture & Urbanism)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2003... The Greater London Assembly is to demand evidence that Richard Rogers' Architecture & Urbanism unit is being effective. An inquiry into the capital's design unit will ask what it has been "producing on the ground" "There was a lot of...

RIBA Foundation's head-hunt draws blank: Institute denies cost-cutting as Foundation fails to appoint permanent director.(News: Royal Institute of British Architects)
October 10, 2003... The RIBA's search For long-term leadership of its new cultural foundation will continue for another year following last week's appointment of current communications director Roula Konzotis as temporary director. The internal reshuffle ends...

Rivington Street Studio's 6.3 million [pounds sterling] library extension for Brunel University, west London, has started on site.(News)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2003... Rivington Street Studio's 6.3 million [pounds sterling] library extension for Brunel University, west London, has started on site. The scheme includes 5,300sq m of library space, a new entrance, seminar spaces and a cafe. The library, due for...

HLW 100-year library plan.(News: British Library's storage facility )(Brief Article)
October 10, 2003... Architect HLW has been appointed to plan the development of the British Library's storage facility at Boston Spa in Yorkshire. The facility, which includes 600km of shelving, was originally a munitions factory. HLW has been charged with...

Cash call for new Scottish design body.(News)
October 10, 2003... Design chiefs have told the Scottish Executive that its plans for a new design watchdog must be backed up with new funds. The executive plans to replace the Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland with a new review body that will be more...

Noisy neighbours dog dense housing.(News)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2003... New research into high-density housing found residents' main concern was sound transfer between adjoining properties. The research, commissioned by Design for Homes and partly funded by the office of the Deputy Prime Minister, aimed to...

RMJM's 15.5 million [pounds sterling] scheme to transform the existing Woodhorn Colliery Museum in Northumberland has just secured a 10 million [pounds sterling] Heritage Lottery grant.(News)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2003... RMJM's 15.5 million [pounds sterling] scheme to transform the existing Woodhorn Colliery Museum in Northumberland has just secured a 10 million [pounds sterling] Heritage Lottery grant. The redevelopment, on the 4.7ha site, features a new...

The danger of two-jags' Truman Show.(Comment & Analysis)
October 10, 2003... As John Prescott visited the new town of Seaside in Florida looking for a way out of the housing crisis last month, he might have identified with Jim Carrey's character Truman Burbank in the film The Truman Show. Filmed against the same...