All Building Design articles in 07 Sept 2012
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NewsStudent anger at school’s visa crisis
London Metropolitan architecture students will be offered places at Kingston and University of East London
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NewsEast puts Stratford scheme in the mix
Project includes apartments, cafe and rooftop pavilion with view of the Olympic Park
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Building StudyWork starts on Arup's £16 million Cambridge sports centre
Architect has designed university facility to be naturally lit and ventilated
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OpinionWho at the AA will take responsibility?
The AA Council remains remarkably silent about how the school came to be £5.5 million out of pocket
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OpinionCommunity is key to new planning policy
New neighbourhood planning provisions are vital tools to get housebuilding moving again
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OpinionIs the Venice Biennale self-indulgent?
Yes, says Hani Rashid, it offers distilled data instead of powerful solutions; while Ann Marie Aguilar thinks it’s no indulgence for architects to talk to each other
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ReviewA decade of capital designs
The London Design Festival is still pushing the boundaries as it celebrates its 10th year
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FeaturesHorsing around Europe
We recall the chequered history of the four horses of the Triumphal Quadriga, who toured Europe in 1982
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OpinionSchools need to be reformed
Perhaps Tom Jefferies, Manchester’s head of school, should spend some time out here with practices and understand the economic realities of practice before suggesting that salaries should increase to recompense students for the astronomical debt levels they incur while studying at his institution (News August 24).
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OpinionEnding quotas is the road to ruin
In your report on the call to scrap affordable housing quotas (bdonline August 23) Grant Shapps asks: “Why is it in this country we don’t build homes specifically for rent, unlike almost everywhere else in the world?… We have buy-to-let but not build-to-let.”
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OpinionPrix has a point about biennale
Wolf Prix makes a decent argument (News August 31). Although the topics he raises — such as US housing collapse — are overtly political and of the day, they’re of concern to everyone and not architecture particularly.
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NewsGlenn Howells wins planning for remembrance centre
Architects working closely with landscape architects at National Memorial Arboretum
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NewsCameron announces further shake-up of planning
Projects to be fast-tracked and affordable housing waived in bid to boost growth
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ReviewJohn Assael: ‘Barcelona has got everything’
The Assael co-founder on Victorian London, social housing and the polarisation of the architectural profession
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NewsRecession is focus of TV’s Stirling Prize show
Special edition of the Culture Show will be fronted by architecture critic Tom Dyckhoff
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NewsCarmody Groarke designs crystal exhibition
Design Museum’s Digital Crystal show is dedicated to Swarovski
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InspirationsNicholas Grimshaw's inspiration: Clifton Suspension Bridge
Nicholas Grimshaw is fascinated by the engineering genius and iconic simplicity of Brunel’s masterpiece