All Building Design articles in 11 August 2006
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Opinion
Wait till the resits
Your report on Edinburgh College of Art’s part I results (News July 28) requires two corrections:
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Opinion
RIBA questions
Your editorial (Comment August 4) states that it would be better for the RIBA to direct questions about architecture and architects to audiences other than architects themselves.
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News
Olympic sustainability targets are too vague
Experts say delivery authority must sign up to specific targets now
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Opinion
Mini mistakes
I do not think Marco da Cruz can have done any research at all on the origins and structure of the Mini.
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News
Mixed-use and transport are keys to Lea Valley Park
The first stage of Urban Initiatives’ report on Lee Valley Park says mixed-use developments, as well as improved transport links and job creation, are fundamental to the area’s future
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Opinion
Ian Martin
There’s a clever centrefold featuring skyscrapers arranged like The Usual Suspects
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Building Study
Trojan house
Wren would marvel at the surprises concealed within his Christchurch tower, which has been converted by Boyarsky Murphy Architects. Ellis Woodman ascends its 11 storeys to find it utterly fantastical, yet completely able to function as a family home. Photos by Hélène Binet
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News
Hospital to pilot single-room ward
The brave new world of healthcare design in Britain is to be put to the test with the building of an entire ward to study the use of single rooms in hospitals.
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Opinion
Graduates need technical skills now
In your editorial about the latest crop of graduates (Comment, July 28), you say that “the complex technical requirements of putting a building together can come later” meaning students don’t have to acquire these skills at their schools of architecture.
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News
Fit for a Prince
RMJM has submitted a planning application for its first project in Liverpool, a large mixed-use development including a residential tower on the historic Princes Dock site.
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Technical
Eco-aims under strain
A Southwark library conversion tested Architype’s sustainability principles to the full.
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Review
Drawing you in
An exhibition shows how, in the age of computer images, drawings can still offer something unique.
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News
School designs menu is ‘possibility’
The newly appointed chief executive of Partnerships for Schools has raised the spectre of a menu of standardised designs for the 13,500 schools to rebuilt or refurbished over the next 13 years.
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Opinion
Ken needs to deliver on his green pledges
A year on and the Olympics remains a mirage: it’s as if we can imagine the best of every games — Sydney’s weather, Barcelona’s buildings, Athens fireworks — recreated in the gritty urban wastelands of east London. But the mirage is starting to fade.