All Building Design articles in 15 September 2006
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NewsWave of relief
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution’s new Lifeboat Station at Padstow is due to go operational this Sunday.
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FeaturesRevit in perspective
Last month Autodesk announced it had signed up 100,000 users of its Revit 3D modelling program. BD asked four UK customers for their verdict on what the firm dubs ‘the best solution available’
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South-east ‘solution’ to Westminster overcrowding
An independent commission chaired by Richard Best and including Terry Farrell has recommended moving social housing tenants from Westminster to the four South-east growth areas to ease the borough’s housing crisis.
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NewsTowering over Manhattan
Norman Foster, Richard Rogers and Fumihiko Maki have unveiled designs for three skyscrapers, known simply as towers 2, 3 and 4, to join the SOM-designed Freedom Tower (pictured far left), Santiago Calatrava’s transport hub and the September 11 memorial, designed by Michael Arad and Peter Walker, at the World Trade ...
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Opinion
Like with like
I’d like to add a footnote to the “Wales is mediocre” debate (Letters September 1 and 8) with some facts: Wales’s population is 3 million; England’s is 50 million.
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Opinion
Listen to Israelis
The frequency of anti-Israeli articles and rants in BD is increasing, turning it into a platform for Abe Hayeem and Ian Martin’s Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine, whose aim is to demonise and delegitimise Israel.
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Opinion
Ruling is an insult
If the RIBA ever wanted to know why so few people vote in elections or why they feel so unhappy and disenfranchised, it need look no further than the appalling setting-up of various registers for accreditation it keeps endorsing.
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Features
Helpdesk - My imperfect profile
Each month, Liam Southwood, co-founder of IT consultancy nittygritty, discusses key IT issues and replies to readers’ queries
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NewsHealing landscape
David Morley Architects has revealed details of this innovative mental health facility in Northern Ireland, which has won planning permission.
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FeaturesHow the grandmaster rewrote the rules
Ove Arup’s previously unexplored archive sheds light on his life-long mission to transform the traditional architect/engineer relationship, writes his biographer Peter Jones
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OpinionSinking feeling
Broadway Malyan’s image (News September 8) packed in the ugliest collection of 35-storey lumps you’re likely to see on SkyscraperPage.com.
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NewsEdge of the Wedge
Wedge House, an office and retail scheme by Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands, has won planning permission from the London Borough of Southwark.
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Opinion
Drawing the line
We were saddened to read (News August 25) that student drawings may have been binned by the RIBA and not returned to their authors.
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Opinion
Venice lessons don’t tell whole story
Anyone in Venice last week for the opening of the biennale might think they were witnessing a defining moment: the moment when architects were forced to admit defeat and confess they no longer had any answers to the problem of cities.
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Dorset is next to halt heathland development
Local authorities in Dorset have stunned architects by putting an “outrageous” embargo on new housing development until they reach an agreement with English Nature on the protection of heathland.