All Building Design articles in 12 May 2006
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NewsTaking a turn on the river
McDowell & Benedetti is to design a footbridge over the River Hull in East Yorkshire to link Kingston upon Hull's historic centre with a new civic quarter, the Boom, being developed on the east bank.
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‘Out of touch' RIBA to survey members
The RIBA has announced a £70,000 survey into what architects think of it in an apparent admission that it is out of touch with members.
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NewsMeanwhile, in Spain...
While its London-based Architecture Foundation HQ will open due to open two years late, Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled a dramatic new form on foreign shores.
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Opinion
Woolly liberals
Sheffield is not the only local authority where the Lib Dems have threatened wholesale demolition of sound housing stock to curry votes from the "get us out this hell" brigade (News April 28).
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ReviewTower leanings
The story of practice Abalos & Herreros is told through the evolution of its first high-rise project
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NewsIt's Prasad vs Owen for RIBA presidency
The RIBA presidency contest looked likely to become a two-horse race between Sunand Prasad and Valerie Owen, as BD went to press on Wednesday.
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OpinionHerminone Potter
Removing the colon from ‘local:vision' will be the first of many sweeping changes here, by the grace of God
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Opinion
High-rise hell
As Ian Simpson prepares to move into his lavish penthouse atop Manchester's Beetham Tower (This Week April 28), he might find J G Ballard's 1975 novel High Rise an entertaining read.
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Opinion
These greedy lawyers must be stopped
It can only be sheer greed that is behind lawyers' growing interest in the dull world of architects' contracts.
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NewsSheffield goes green, and red, and yellow...
This colourful timber-frame development proposed for a brownfield site in the run-down area of Norfolk Park, Sheffield, has been designed by Matthew Lloyd Architects.
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Fuksas wins Mandela project
Massimiliano Fuksas has won one of the largest-ever RIBA competitions, for a £190 million university campus for the Nelson Mandela Institute in Abuja, Nigeria.
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Opinion
Frozen music
The proposed Le Corbusier exhibition, destined for Liverpool in 2008, is clearly going to need some creative support and innovative thinking to achieve the 100,000 visits to balance the RIBA's books for the event (News and Comment May 5). From your leader's realistic comments on Corb's lack of direct contact ...
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Opinion
Venues merely first impression
Your piece "Olympic design squeeze" (News April 28) suggests that the venue designs prepared during London's Bid for the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games may never be built. You would be right. But this is not a scoop.
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TechnicalFriends of the earth
Rammed earth is going mainstream as a result of its insulation and sustainability properties
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Opinion
A question of supply and demand
As the bloodstains dry on No 10's doorstep, following the blame-shuffling reshuffle, we can only wonder whether John Prescott was sidelined for his dalliances or for his role in the chaotic introduction of the new Part L.
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ReviewGreat expectations, but heart of darkness
The AA's show of Thames Gateway proposals has limited practical use