All Building Design articles in 08 Feb 2013
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NewsHyde & Hyde win planning for South Wales home
The house sits in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
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NewsBee hives to be installed in Birmingham buildings
Cushman Wakefield to extend measures aimed at halting drop in bee population
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NewsSustainable properties command higher rents
European real estate study finds growing appetite for green improvements
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NewsReiach and Hall and Michael Laird unveil Glasgow College plans
Two campuses will consolidate the existing 11 buildings across the city
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FeaturesQuay personnel
A look back to when the Bureau for Urban Design won a competition to revitalise an area of Antwerp
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NewsBIG unveils mixed-use development in Fort Lauderdale
The residential towers feature a crack down the middle to aid pedestrian movement
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NewsRMJM model maker puts his Gazprom tower up for sale
Creditor hopes to recoup £70k following collapse of practice
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NewsAA settles accounting scam dispute
Cost put at “hundreds of thousands” rather than millions first feared
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Building StudySouth Acton Estate by Stitch
The architect has designed 120 new homes, a station square and a cafe in west London
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OpinionPassivhaus needs support as it reaches critical mass
As the number of UK Passivhaus buildings looks set to treble, a lack of financial incentives is still holding the movement back
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OpinionForget skyscrapers, we need rail hubs
Investing in transport infrastructure is one way to create sustainable metropolitan areas
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OpinionShould temporary buildings be allowed to win RIBA awards?
They can be poetic and experimental - but is that enough?
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NewsFentress Architects unveil addition to San Francisco airport
The 67m-tower is expected to finish in August 2014
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OpinionChange of use is ill thought out
One person’s cash cow is another person’s affordable housing, community provision, infrastructure, heritage rescue — the list that section 106 money can be spent on is a long one. No planning application means no section 106 — and no architects working on the affordable housing (“Councils fight back over change ...
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OpinionCastelvecchio is a knockout
I was delighted to read about Scarpa’s masterpiece, the Castelvecchio ( Inspiration February 1 ): a case of one hero writing about another.
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OpinionDoes Passivhaus really fit the bill?
Why does the BRE and our Building Control system need to be dictated to by Wolfgang Feist — and where did the magic figure for heating demand of less than 15kWh per sq m per year come from? (“ Passivhaus faces ‘major obstacles’ in the UK ” bdonline February 1). ...