All Building Design articles in 09 February 2007
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TechnicalRoom 13 by Mitchell Taylor Workshop tops the Cool Wall
Visitors to bdonline have this week voted Room 13 by Mitchell Taylor Workshop - the country’s first purpose built primary art studio in Bristol - the coolest project on our Cool Wall.
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Opinion
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NewsNews Junkie - Sunday 11/02/07
Last week’s announcement that Google had bought its fellow internet phenomenon YouTube for the small matter of $1.65bn (£880m) provoked a flurry of interest in the video-sharing website.
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NewsReading regeneration
This substantial apartment scheme by Cartwright Pickard Architects, part of a £250 million regeneration project undertaken by developer Amec, starts on site at Chatham Place in Reading, Berkshire, this month.
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Opinion
Pulling together
I would like to emphasise how worldwide the support is for the Architects Benevolent Society’s Big Auction on June 7 (News February 2).
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Building StudyWelcome to Lynchville
BD previews Lynch Architects’ designs for three houses and a pub to make up a ‘town square’ at this year’s Ideal Home Show
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NewsIn the pink at Yas Island
Benoy has been appointed to design one of the world’s largest mixed-use destinations, Yas Island in Abu Dhabi, for Aldar Properties.
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TechnicalAn inspiring memorial
Adjaye Associates’ training centre dedicated to would-be architect Stephen Lawrence will be an unusual tribute.
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Opinion
Responsible idea
We have just received a letter from Hackney planning authority pointing out that a scheme we designed has not been built or occupied in accordance with the planning approval. The letter states that unless we comply with the planning permission we will receive an enforcement notice.
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Opinion
Ian Martin
The developers’ job is to hoodwink, not inspire, which makes them much more of a laugh than architects.
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OpinionGoolish interest
Being an amateur thespian, I always wanted to be involved in theatre design during that part of my career when I was actually designing. How I longed to correct the provision for dressing room space, which was so often relegated to a couple of dingy, airless cubby holes or the ...
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NewsGehry takes Manhattan
This £50 million Manhattan development by Frank Gehry for the media corporation InterActiveCorp is nearing completion. The headquarters building takes the form of a 10-storey glass tower with eight sweeps of glass inspired by the sails of boats passing on the nearby Hudson River.
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Opinion
Fashion victims
OK, I’ve had enough! So most 1960s and 1970s public housing was a disaster, architects are largely to blame, and we must beat our breasts and plead guilty to the destruction of the city. Let us look at the facts.
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NewsMaking an entrance
A £1 million upgrade by Gareth Hoskins Architects for the Glasgow Science Centre, including this bold new entrance and media wall, will soon be completed.
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TechnicalI wish I’d done that...Concrete structure
Chris Williamson on Renzo Piano’s housing scheme in Corciano, Perugia In 1981 Andrew Weston and I entered the Crystal Palace housing competition, sponsored by Abbey National, to design about 100 family dwellings close to the rail station.
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News
Olympic ‘year of design’ starts here
This is “the year of Olympic design,” 2012 organisers promised on Wednesday, as they submitted what is thought to be the largest planning application in British history.
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