All Building Design articles in 04 August 2006
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Opinion
So why did it win?
One profoundly agrees with Frank Duffy’s reported comments on the Architecture Foundation redesign that quotes “the main thing is that it works and is a good place to be”.
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Opinion
Silly season
It may be the hot weather or the illustrations may be misleading but I think the design for the extension to the Tate Modern (News July 28) is just silly and anyway too big.
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Opinion
Politics are private
What exactly does Chris Nasah, chairman of the Society of Black Architects, think he will achieve by his attitude towards those who have a different opinion to himself?
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ReviewSkating over the surface
Skateboarding and Nazi holiday camps make strange bedfellows at the Architecture Foundation’s latest exhibition
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News
New Space in Stalybridge
Space Craft Architects has won planning permission for this scheme at Longlands Mill in Stalybridge, Cheshire. The practice was selected from a shortlist that included Ian Simpson, Walter Menteth, Patel Taylor and Union North.
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Opinion
Not so liberal
I was more than disappointed to learn that Peter Phillips polled as high as 19% in the recent presidential election. I have always liked to think that the architectural profession is very largely made up of people from the left-of-centre/liberal-thinking fraternity. I thought that was one of the things that ...
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News
Simpson’s Leeds towers win planning permission
Ian Simpson Architects’ soaring tower scheme Lumiere received planning permission last week from Leeds City Council.
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NewsJust who voted for Phillips?
Despite being outed as a BNP member, Peter Phillips won a fifth of the vote in last week’s RIBA presidential vote. Ellen Bennett examines the reasons for his appeal
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News
New Orleans jeopardised by shortage of planners
A shortage of planning officers is jeopardising the reconstruction of New Orleans nearly a year after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city and killed more than 1,300 people last August.
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TechnicalThe rise and rise of inflation
With inflatable architecture becoming ever more widespread, Elaine Knutt talks to Nick Crosbie of Inflate
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Opinion
Ian Martin
I wanted to email Frank Gehry but pressed the wrong button and converted it into an exploding 3D masterpiece
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ReviewA history of violence
Manfredo Tafuri eruditely takes issue with the sunnier descriptions of the Renaissance
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Opinion
Shaky Foundation
Apart from radically altering: the design (the radical angled entrance block struck off); the materials (from concrete to steel); the brief (to make it work, says trustee); the timescale (adding two more years); and the cost (doubling the budget), the Architecture Foundation’s “new and revised” competition-winning scheme (News July 28)... ...
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News
Planners ‘shouldn’t fill green gap’
Planning officers should not be expected to improve the environmental performance of buildings, says a government-backed report on sustainable construction.
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Opinion
Flying in the face
I can’t believe there’s any doubt about a face in the Herzog & de Meuron Tate Modern extension (Concrete Boots July 28).
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Opinion
Disheartening vote
As a newly qualified Asian architect in Scotland and an RIBA member, I was somewhat disheartened to see a BNP member accumulating such a high percentage of the vote.
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NewsMcCloud’s grand designs for prefab
Channel 4 presenter invites architects to help design up to 100 homes for new sustainable development
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