All Building Design articles in 05 January 2007
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Opinion
On the waterfront
Your report (News December 15) implies that responsibility for the budget increase on the arena and conference centre scheme at Kings Waterfront, Liverpool, belongs to Wilkinson Eyre Architects. This is not the case.
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OpinionPremature point
Your round-up of the year (December 15) although calling it a bad year for Frank Gehry, claims he got planning permission for his King Alfred development in November. Not true.
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Opinion
Unmask the megalomaniacs
Your article “Barker planning advice offers work windfall” (News December 8) perpetuates two myths.
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NewsRichard Murphy receives OBE in New Year’s list
Leading Scottish architect Richard Murphy has made a surprise appearance on the New Year’s honours list having won an OBE for services to architecture.
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OpinionMake a resolution to listen, learn and win
The best New Year’s resolution architects can make for 2007 is to learn to communicate. This may not be the first time — and it surely won’t be the last — where a case is made for more and better communication at all levels.
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Opinion
Minority issue
Why the gratuitous reference to the fact that Sunand Prasad was elected “the first RIBA president from an ethnic minority” (2006 Review December 15)? And anyway, surely Eric Lyons, president 1975-7, was also from from “an ethnic minority”?
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OpinionIan Martin
No one waits more than six months for an architectural icon, but in 1997 around 300,000 did at any one time.
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NewsThe heart of the matter
English Partnerships has appointed Elliot Lipton’s First Base to create the Heart of East Greenwich project in south-east London, with designs by Make.
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Opinion
Shaky ground
Your front page headline “The cost of going global” is a lame attempt by your publication to take the green moral high ground, which I would suggest is too poorly defined to allow you to take such a sanctimonious position on this particular topic.
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News
Whos got the power?
Who are the most powerful figures in British architecture? We offer our definitive list of the 50 people you need in your contacts book this year, as chosen by our expert jury.
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OpinionFlying the flag
Thank you for your article “The cost of going global” (News December 15). I am delighted that BD is publicly championing sustainable architectural practice; a concern that Aedas Architects shares.
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ReviewDesigning from head to toe
Emma Dent Coad reviews a new monograph on architect Eliot Noyes, a man who bought a tangible glamour to the profession as well as creating a complete corporate image for IBM
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ReviewUtopia dashed
This book of elegant essays studies the role of artists in ‘the New Gorbals’ and beyond.
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NewsShenzhen tower, China by Farrells
Farrells has revealed its plans for a massive mixed-use development in Shenzhen, China, after winning an international competition.
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NewsHpod set to radically change hospital design
Nightingale Associates is to put a decades’ worth of research into the healing aspects of design to the test, under a unique project also involving the Building Centre, Arup and electronics giant Philips.
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TechnicalHow to design a zero carbon home
Elaine Knutt looks at the stiff challenges in meeting the target of all carbon-neutral new housing by 2016