All Building Design articles in 13 July 2012
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Technical
La Collette energy plant by Hopkins Architects
This highly visable energy-from-waste plant in Jersey has its structure on the outside
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Technical
BMW Group Olympic pavilion by Serie Architects
Serie has reinvented the classical architectural hierarchy on a structure inspiried by the Victorian bandstand
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Review
Stadia: Sport and Vision in Architecture
Sir John Soane’s Museum’s display of historic athletics venues charts the Olympic journey
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Technical
Coca-Cola Beatbox Olympic pavilion by Asif Khan and Pernilla Ohrstedt
East London firm designs structure for drinks brand
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News
Lights on for Assemble's pop-up Chichester theatre
Temporary venue opens as part of theatre festival’s 50th anniversary celebrations
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Review
Streets ahead in Hackney
Eight architects unveil their visions of a deregulated east London street
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News
Architects blame RIBA for Olympic fringe ‘nightmare’
Matchmaker role under fire after London Pleasure Gardens chaos
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Opinion
RIBA can’t walk away from Pleasure Gardens fiasco
Matchmaker role shouldn’t mean leaving young practices to sink or swim with inexperienced clients
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News
Top architects lack principles, says Will Self
In renewed attack, novelist accuses Richard Rogers, Daniel Libeskind and Rem Koolhaas of saying one thing but designing another
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Building Study
Michael Trentham's townhouses to echo local brickwork
New-build homes and Victorian conversion in Wandsworth to complete in 2013
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Opinion
Does architecture need television?
Yes, says Charles Knevitt, the profession is in desperate need of more formats to make it accessible; but Rob Gregory feels the best building design has nothing to do with mass media
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News
Architects to make up 33% of Cabe review panels
Architects make up only about one third of Design Council Cabe’s pool of built environment experts, the panel from which design review members will be chosen.Of the 247 panellists, 82 have listed their first profession as architect, including Bob Allies, Rab Bennetts, Alison Brooks and Ken Shuttleworth. From the list, ...
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Features
Grip your glass and say hello to networking
Social networks are no substitute for face to face conversation – however nerve-wracking the experience may be
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News
Minister lists houses by Cambridge School of Architecture tutors
Four post-war houses protected following English Heritage advice
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Tablet only
RMJM’s HR head among latest senior staff to quit
Exodus from architect continues with Stephanie Thomas and Charles Barguirdjian
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Tablet only
Top architects lack principles, says Will Self
Novelist accuses Richard Rogers, Daniel Libeskind and Rem Koolhaas of saying one thing but designing another
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Opinion
An open and shut case
I am writing in response to the letters in the July 6 edition from Philip Wilson (Barnet) and Peter Howell (Oxford) about planning refusal for a scheme for a simple house extension in Moseley.
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Features
Only lions missing from Spartan Munich
As the Soane Museum features an exhibit on stadiums, we look back to the 1972 Munich Games
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Opinion
Research into fear of heights
Gillian Darley (Opinion July 6) dares to mention that she is one who hides her fear of heights in frozen silence, and wonders how many decide not to work, live or study in a building because it scares them witless.
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Opinion
Location dictates the success of monument design
Memorials built out of town stand a better chance of flying below the radar