CONTENTS 6 Introduction lan Abley, audacity.org 22 Chapter 1 If Sustainable Design isn't a Moral Imperative, What is? Paul Hyett, Ryder 32 Case Study: ISO 14001 and the Architectural Imagination, The Eden Centre, Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners 36 Case Study: Phase Changes, Explore at Bristol, Wilkinson Eyre Architects 38 Case Study: Beautifully Simple, Gateshead Millennium Bridge, Gateshead, Wilkinson Eyre Architects 40 Case Study: The Undulations of the Surrounding Landscape The Great Glasshouse, National Botanic Garden of Wales, Carmarthenshire, Foster and Partners 42 Chapter 2 Zen and the Art of Life-Cycle Maintenance Austin Williams, Architects' Journal 52 Chapter 3 The Popular Legal Fiction Daniel Lloyd, Freedom and Law 63 Case Study: Minimal in the Extreme, Royal Victoria Dock Demountable Transporter Bridge, Techniker and L/fschutz Davidson 64 Chapter 4 Ecological Frequencies and Hybrid Natures Pamela Charlick and Natasha Nicholson, Charlick + Nicholson 72 Chapter 5 Design Tokenism and Global Warming Helene Guldberg and Peter Sammonds 84 Case Study: Challenging Assumptions about Cities of the Future Millennium Tower, Tokyo, Foster and Partners 86 Chapter 6 Sustainable Development and Everyday Life Phil Macnaghten 94 Chapter 7 The Economics of Sustainable Development James Heartfield 104 Chapter 8 Engaging the Stakeholder in the Development Process Miffa Salter, Office for Public Management 111 Case Study: Lightness and Span, Stratford Market Depot, London, Wilkinson Eyre Architects 112 Case Study: The Well Tempered Environment, Stratford Regional Station, London, Wilkinson Eyre Architects 114 Chapter 9 The Trouble with Planners Alan Hudson 121 Case Study: A Fly-by-Light Architecture, Airlander 1999 Jonathan Schwinge 130 Chapter 10 Why it is No Longer Appropriate to Underestimate the Opposition Margaret Casely-Hayford 134Chapter 11 Reinvigorating the English Tradition of Architectural Polemic Miles Glendinning and Stefan Muthesius 142Chapter 12 Town and Country in Perspective James Heartfield 152Chapter 13 The Sand-Heap Urbanism of the Twenty-First Century Martin Pawley 162Case Study: Advanced Technology Beyond Mere Styling 164 Chapter 14 Revolutionary Energy Shane Slater, Ben Madden and Duncan Price, Whitby Bird and Partners 170 Chapter 15 Smalltowne Sean Stanwick 178 Case Study: Lost Exchange, Liverpool and Birkenhead 2000, Jonathan Schwinge 184Case Study: If Only Houses Were Designed and Made to this Standard 187Chapter 16 Part 1 Changes to Basic Duties for Architects in the Law David Lloyd 203 Part 2 Partnering Agreements Deborah Brown, CMS Cameron McKenna 194 Chapter 17 From Strategic Adviser to Design Subcontractor and Back Again Peter Walker 202Case Study: The British Airways London Eye 204 Case Study: Beyond Conventional Construction, NatWest Media Centre, Lord's Cricket Ground, Future Systems 206Case Study: Unlike Any Office Building So Far Conceived Swiss Re Headquarters, City of London, Foster and Partners 208 Case Study: Industrial Pastimes, The Magn8 Project, Rotherdam 210Chapter 18 Development Rights for the Hydrogen-Fuelled Future lan Abley, audacity.org 216 Case Study: Economy of Scale Required, Murray Grove and Shepherdess Walk, London, Cartwright Pickard Architects, Yorkon and The Peabody Trust 228Supporting audacity.org 230Building Audacity Programme for the conference held on 10 July 2000 231Contributor Biographies 236Bibliography