All Building Design articles in 14 Sept 2012
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News
Ash Sakula submits Newcastle housing plans
£9.5m Newcastle scheme includes tower houses, courtyard houses and flats
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Features
Dear Matthew: How can a non-architect stand out in a firm of design snobs?
BD’s agony uncle helps an office manager who is losing respect for their architectural colleagues
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News
Holder Mathias completes arts centre revamp
Grade II-listed Gwyn Hall now has 400 seat auditorium
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Technical
Peace Palace visitor centre, the Hague, by Wilford Schupp
Architect’s gatehouse for historic building in the Dutch city completes
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News
West Ham looks to public funds to pay for stadium conversion
Football club only willing to pay £3m towards £160m refit
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News
Workload 'restricts Vaizey's influence'
Architects welcome appointment but worries over broad portfolio
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News
Birmingham BSF schools prepare for new term
Schools by DRMM, Glenn Howells and Marks Barfield have completed
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Building Study
Baca Architects director designs mews with private courtyards for south-east london
Each of the three houses in Forest Hill will feature studio space and will share a communal yard
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Opinion
Olympic stadium deserves better than West Ham
Populous’s stadium is now a much-loved symbol of sporting success and it deserves to have a genuinely public use
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Opinion
Heritage status won’t guarantee quality
While the Giant’s Causeway visitor centre may be a success, this year’s Carbuncle Cup winner proves that history is not always on your side
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Opinion
Will architects benefit from relaxed planning rules?
Yes, says Manuel Nogueira, it’s a positive step even though it relies on proper implementation; while Ian Hogarth is tired of government ‘simplifications’ making things worse
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Features
Wilford sandwich, anyone?
We look back to a 1996 exhibition of Michael Wilford work, as Wilford Schupp’s new building in The Hague completes
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Features
Back catalogues are powerful promotional tools
Like musicians, architects shouldn’t underestimate the power of a back cataglogue.
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Opinion
London Met crisis is shortsighted
The London Metropolitan visa crisis has all the hallmarks of a classic Home Office knee-jerk reaction — remember that UK Border Agency is an agency of the Home Office (News September 7).
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Opinion
Hamburg concert hall a disaster
The scheme for the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie is breathtaking in its bombastic and overweighted ugliness (News September 7) — is this what Herzog & de Meuron has come to?
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Opinion
Cameron's lost the planning plot
The proposals to change the planning system are absurd and ludicrous — just like the NPPF. (“Cameron announces further shake-up of planning” bdonline September 6).