All Building Design articles in 14 July 2006
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Building StudyBuilding on the future
The AA pavilion has taken students from writing their own bespoke software to building at 1:1 scale. Unit 2’s tutors — Martin Self and Charles Walker of Arup’s Advanced Geometry Unit — look back on a learning experience
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Opinion
President Prasad
The coverage over the third (BNP) candidate for the RIBA presidency has drowned out any debate between the two front runners, Valerie Owen and Sunand Prasad.
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Opinion
Poptastic planner
Philip Watson explains how his full grant subsidised his fledgling music career (Letters July 7).
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Opinion
Ian Martin
Norman Foster wishes us luck, and offers a discount rate if anyone wants a future city built
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FeaturesNice model, let’s hire them
With the market booming and fresh talent in high demand, bosses are taking the lead and targeting the student shows. Zoë Blackler goes on a scout at the AA
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News
Livingstone given power to green light schemes
Mayor of London Ken Livingstone will be given sweeping new planning powers, Department for Communities & Local Government secretary Ruth Kelly was set to announce yesterday, after BD went to press.
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Opinion
Forget nuclear and look to the long term
In the UK we have about 4,000sq m of land each — four times more than Bangladesh but less than most large western economies. The UK should be able to fuel and feed itself from renewable resources within its borders.
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Opinion
Exam stress
I’ve now reviewed the examination record sheet for part I and part II that a candidate from our office was given after her interview for UK accreditation with Arb (“Arb group to review foreign accreditation”, News June 30).
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Opinion
Who’s going to get tough on energy?
The government has struggled long and hard over the energy review, published this week. And, frankly, whatever it came up with was never going to make easy reading. As the economy continues to grow so does energy consumption. This, along with our reliance on coal as our main energy source, ...
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NewsEdge of Eden
Grimshaw Architects has celebrated an exceptional week after it emerged that its third dome for Cornwall’s Eden Project could finally be built. It was also announced that the practice’s long-awaited Bath Spa complex will open on August 7.
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TechnicalI wish Id done that... surface
David Perera on the reception of the UNA Hotel Vittorio in Florence, by Fabio Novembre
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TechnicalSuspension of disbelief
At the V&A’s new Islamic gallery, Softroom’s surfaces play tricks on visitors and exhibits
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Building StudyHis dark materials
Tom de Paor’s first standalone house brings a hint of aggression to a hillside in the Irish town of Dalkey. Pity about the garden, though
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ReviewOde to joy and colour
An exhibition on Brandhorst Collection museum architects Sauerbruch Hutton is timely