All Building Design articles in 05 April 2007
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Building StudyFlavour Cafe, Soho, London, by Wilkinson King Architects
With its industrial-cum-open-market aesthetic and palette of concrete, wood and galvanised steel and wire mesh, this Soho sandwich bar is a perfect reflection of the Flavour cafe brand.
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Building StudyPrincesshay shopping centre by Chapman Taylor, Panter Hudspith and Wilkinson Eyre
With its warren of narrow streets, public squares and houses about the shops, this collobaration between three architects is an update on a medieval template. Click on the related stories link below to find out more about the project.
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ReviewBathing beauties: Beach huts for the 21st century - images
An oyster shell, a gin and tonic and holey cheese are among the inspirations for the beach hut of the future
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NewsNews Junkie: 7 and 8 April
In this week's despatch...homeless hedgehogs, your new property millionaire neighbours, Marks Barfield's treetop promenade and Matthew Parris' horrified llamas.
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TechnicalThe shunting of the Sark
A visitor centre for the Cutty Sark will be made possible by raising the sailing ship 1.5m to create space underneath.
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Opinion
Pull the other one
Come on BD! Your Solutions page (March 30) repeated an awful lot of green mumbo-jumbo when describing projects being built in the United Arab Emirates.
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Opinion
Olympic rethink
I enjoyed Sean Griffiths’ observations on Mipim 2007 (Opinion March 23); the decadence, the vulgarity, the male testosterone and the leggy blondes.
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ReviewThe world of illusion made real
The latest exhibition of surrealism shows its influence on modern architects, despite the discipline’s modest role in the movement. This pleasurable show should be a blockbuster, says David Cunningham
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OpinionHow to solve a problem like RIBA
Members want the RIBA to be more proactive, but that depends on how engaged architects are with their own institute
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Opinion
Pomp and honour
Fresh from Richard Rogers’ Pritzker triumph, the building that launched his career — the Pompidou Centre — is to run a retrospective in honour of its creator.
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Opinion
Hand on the tiller
Sailor hats off to RIBA president Jack Pringle, skipper of the racing yacht Mankie, for his nimble navigation of last week’s RIBA Council.
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OpinionWe were first...
Great article (Solutions March 23) about the work that Andy Ford and Mark Hewitt have been doing with interseasonal heat transfer.
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News
Fat wins its first work for Liverpool
Fat has beaten competition from Marks Barfield, Page & Park and Hawkins Brown to design a new building within Liverpool’s £900 million Paradise Street retail development.
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NewsRIBA fails to promote us to public, say members
Largest ever survey of the profession calls on the institute to campaign harder on key issues