All Building Design articles in 15 April 2005
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TechnicalTechbrief
Get wired Weary of wires cluttering up internal spaces and want a kit that centralises all electronic devices? AMX, a manu-facturer of residential and commer-cial automated control systems, has launched a series of wireless Modero touch panels that group all the electronics in a building into a single unit. ...
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NewsSpotcheck: South-east
Dickens park A theme park designed by Kemp Muir Wealleans, based on the life and work of Charles Dickens, is set to be built at the Chatham Maritime site in Kent. Construction of the £62 million, 13,375sq m Dickens World complex is expected to start in June. The theme park ...
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Opinion
Question time
Do my eyes deceive me, or does Charles Kennedy’s pledge to “end central government involvement for local planning appeals” (News Analysis April 8) amount to scrapping the existing appeals system?
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TechnicalPower politics
The government’s chief scientific adviser wants Tony Blair to go further on sustainable buildings
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News
Power play
Westminster City Council was due to object to proposed safety work at the Diana Memorial Fountain in London’s Hyde Park as BD went to press. A report to the planning applications sub-committee said the “elegant simplicity” of the original design would be compromised by the work.The Crossrail Bill will be ...
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NewsPeople
Gillian Beckingham, the local authority architect who is being tried for manslaughter following an outbreak of legionnaire’s disease in Barrow, Cumbria, denied responsibility in court last week. The trial continues.Peter Cook (pictured) has been commissioned to design a new head-quarters for the Jet Propulsion Centre, part of NASA, on behalf ...
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NewsTall order
Ian Simpson Architects has revealed designs for this 131m-high tower proposed in Manchester.
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Opinion
Market politics
I haven’t always seen eye to eye with Terry Wyatt (Soapbox April 8), but on the question of the government’s backtracking on the Energy Performance of Buildings, I’m with him all the way.
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NewsA kiss for Shanghai
Will Alsop is to design China’s answer to the London Eye. The £100 million structure, part of Alsop’s growing body of work in the Far East, has been dubbed the “Shanghai Kiss” and will be taller than the Eiffel Tower.
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OpinionJulia Peyton-Jones
Serpentine director Julia Peyton-Jones, the force behind the gallery’s summer pavilion programme, gives the RIBA Trust lecture next week.
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Opinion
Ian Martin
BOOK SPECIAL:10 spring titles for the discriminating reader to leave on the passenger seat
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Opinion
Life under Labour. How is it for you?
Has Labour been good for architecture or for practice?
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NewsHit and miss
Rem Koolhaas and Ellen van Loon have won the Mies van der Rohe Award for the Netherlands Embassy in Berlin (pictured).Marks Barfield and Make are among the six practices on the shortlist for the final phase of Birmingham’s Mailbox development. They are up against Glenn Howells Architects; Associated Architects; ...
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Opinion
Liverpool set on higher purpose
One of the reasons that Liverpool architecture and design standards are so poor is that public expectations, perception and experience of quality modern design are very limited (News April 8).
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FeaturesA helping hand
VectorWorks has been improved, and for version 11 users, it’s free to upgrade
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Features
A good savings plan
Backups? Archiving? What’s the best way for a small outfit to make sure data is backed up?