All Building Design articles in 13 April 2006
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OpinionSuzi Towel
We've put Big Ben and Beatrix Potter's bungalow in breadcrumbs and you have to guess which is which
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NewsStirling stories
Which buildings should have won? What do judges get up to on the big night? And why do we even need the Stirling Prize? Ellen Bennett digs for dirt in a new book celebrating the award's 10th anniversary
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Opinion
Leeds modesty
It is stretching a point to argue that our building for Isis Waterside Regeneration in Leeds, at a maximum of 14 storeys, is comparable to super-towers by Simpson, Farrell's or Wilkinson Eyre proposed elsewhere in Britain (News analysis April 7). It is in fact modest even by Leeds standards.
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NewsGrowing pains in Scotland
A year old this week, Architecture & Design Scotland is coming under fire from critics who say it has not tackled issues such as PFI, the skills shortage and education. Will Hurst looks at how the watchdog is faring
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Planning review ‘flawed'
Economist Kate Barker's Treasury-commissioned review of the planning system is based on a false premise, claims the South-east England Regional Assembly.
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TechnicalFire protection gets smart
Fire protection now looks at the whole building rather than individual parts - in contrast to fire codes
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Building StudyFinishing touches
Stephen Hodder's project at St Catherine's College has spanned a decade of building and restoration work to Arne Jacobsen's 1960s campus. The final phase of his masterplan - a set of student housing blocks - is complete, and it has been been worth the wait.
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Opinion
Hemingway finds gap in the market
What Andrew Clark (Letters April 7) fails to understand in his attack on Wayne Hemingway lies at the very heart of the problem for architects today.
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News
Yeang to masterplan Istanbul eco-corridor
Llewelyn Davies Yeang has won its first major international design competition since the practice launched last year. The architecture, planning and design consultancy will masterplan a 2km-long "ecological corridor" for Istanbul, Turkey, on a site that has been dominated by unplanned development.
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NewsNew library draws ‘mystery' fans
The first new library to be built in Gloucestershire in 15 years - in the market town of Dursley - challenges the traditional notions of a county library, with its transparent facade and skewed shape.
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Opinion
Grid distortion
Extraordinary to hear that Isobel McCall, leader of Milton Keynes Council, thinks "people absolutely love the grid roads" and that they must be protected in their present form against activities developing along them.
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TechnicalSafe design is good design
Making health and safety issues integral to architecture needn't cramp your style
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Opinion
If I were London's design director ...
Does London need a design director to bang the table for better architecture in the capital? If such a post is to be created it is because there is a certain desperation by London's civic leaders to see some action.
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NewsPupils help design school
Eldridge Smerin has designed a new west Midlands primary school. The £300,000 scheme, for Heart of England School, in Balsall Common, is in for planning. It boasts a colourful new bridge constructed of timber louvers on a translucent polycarbonate structure.
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Opinion
Uniting old and new to create rich legacy
Last week Peter Rees said he could not understand why English Heritage has commissioned a study of the whole Smithfield/ Farringdon area (News April 7).