All Building Design articles in 13 January 2006
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NewsOn the waterfront
The next major scheme in the regeneration of Cardiff Bay has been submitted for outline planning consent.
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TechnicalTime Test:
Cartwright Pickard director James Pickard returns to Murray Grove in Hackney to assess the performance of the cladding five years on
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News
X-factor show to pick lottery landmarks
Television viewers are to select a new landmark to represent Great Britain, to be funded with up to £50 million of lottery money.
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OpinionIan Martin
“How might we express the powerful dialogue between architecture and sculpture from the 18th century to the present day?”
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News
Four on Holt shortlist
Edaw, MacCormac Jamieson Prichard, Studio Egret West and Maxwan are on the shortlist to masterplan Holt Town, a development in east Manchester.
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NewsDesign a memorial fit for a Queen Mum
Architects have been invited to submit designs for a memorial to the Queen Mother, but warned to leave out water and moving parts in an apparent effort to prevent a repetition of the Diana Memorial Fountain fiasco.
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NewsSea, sand and salt marshes define Farrells’ new Scottish village
Architect Farrells has revealed this masterplan for a coastal community, proposed for a site once used to build North Sea oil rigs.
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Opinion
First decision provides Olympic hope
With the new year, a new fear. The story of the successful Olympic bid was a highlight of 2005.
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News
Rees: new planning powers are ‘crazy’
Proposals to extend mayor’s input are undemocratic, says City planner
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Building StudyHolding court
Some might say Porphyrios Associates’ courtyards at Selwyn College, Cambridge, are hopelessly antiquated. Wrong, says Ellis Woodman. They are an astute revival of established languages which put modernist competition to shame
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ReviewSoane’s citadel
Emma Dent Coad reads a history of the Bank of England through its various architectural guises
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News
On the race cards
EPR Architects has been appointed to design a new grandstand at the Galway Racecourse.
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Building Study
In detail: Selwyn College, Cambridge
The new development employs load-bearing masonry cavity walls to support pre-cast concrete plank floors and a timber roof. At ground floor, an arcade of six stone arches shelter a covered walkway facing the quadrangle lawn.
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News
Cabe to look at procurement rules
Cabe has pledged to help ease the stranglehold that old, established architectural practices have on public sector work.
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TechnicalTop brass comes to Chatham
RMJM’s university project in Kent is the first building in the UK to use brass cladding.