All Building Design articles in 05 August 2005
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NewsTackling the slum timebomb
Rising above the burnt out tenements and rubble-filled wastelands of Istanbul’s worst slum, Zeyrek mosque offers a reminder of better days.
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NewsSurface projection
Surface Architects has won planning permission for a new Film & Media Studies Research Centre at Birkbeck College in Bloomsbury, north London.
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Power play
Cabe’s role has been extended to include responsibility for considering disabled access in design. The body has taken on the remit of the Inclusive Environment Group at the request of the government.
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ODPM reforms planning
The ODPM has announced tough measures to speed up the planning system and stop developers sitting on empty sites.
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Opinion
Planners stoop low
The news that a tall couple (6ft and 6ft 10) have been refused permission to raise the roof of their Aberdeenshire home is a pathetic indictment of planning bureaucrats.I recently visited some old crofting cottages where the doors are closer to 5ft. If planners were still enforcing these outdated ergonomics ...
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Leeds lessons
Allen Tod Architecture has completed two new buildings for Park Lane College in Leeds.
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Opinion
Recycling is key
Being a greener construction or civil engineering company isn’t just about building less energy-hungry buildings or using more energy-efficient construction processes. It’s also about using recycled materials in new products. While companies may have previously not had much incentive beyond notions of corporate responsibility to use such products, there ...
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Seifert plots Iranian retreat
John Seifert Architects has been appointed to design a five-star hotel and luxury golf villas on an Iranian island that looks set to rival nearby Dubai.
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Opinion
Ian Martin
We wish to create a united front , defying the establishment squares who laugh at our round shapes and spindly legs!
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ReviewHousing that was Lyons’ pride
Elegant designs and settings with resident-run management made Span homes special
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NewsHit and miss
The Beetham Organisation has unveiled images of a 70-storey tower, designed by Ian Simpson Architects to be built at Number 1 Blackfriars Road.
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NewsFosters Malaysian towers
Foster& Partners’ first residential development in Malaysia has broken ground.
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Opinion
London shouldnt be some exotic zoo
Fashionable French architects seem to be as quaintly ridiculous as French rock stars. Dressed entirely in black, pouting and intense, they try hard to appear as if they have just come from discussing existentialism at the Deux Magots.
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NewsEdinburgh opens its Hearts to Fuksas plan
Italian to design stadium for Hearts FC, and has eye on London Olympics
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TechnicalEasy on the ice
Despite its setting, the Halley VI Antarctic station will have to minimise water use.
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Detecting a pattern
A new John Lewis store in Leicester designed by Foreign Office Architects won planning permission this week.
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Opinion
Cussing fussing
Reading BD’s back page on July 15, I was f@*%!ng unhappy about Ian Martin’s use of such a strong swear word printed in full. Were you?
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Opinion
Opera counterpoint
Simon Foxell in his piece Opera and Me (Culture July 15) refers to the value of opera — how it acts as a counterpoint, taking him from the everyday problems of practice, presumably into another world of fantasy and imagination. However, he does mention his feelings about the quality of ...