All Building Design articles in 16 June 2006
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Biennale podcasts coming soon
Renzo Piano speaking at Southwark Cathedral and Robert Elms talking about the history of London's watery byways are just two of the recorded talks that we hope to make available to download from this site early next week.
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Competition: Join BD's reporting team and win a limited edition biennale sheeplight
BD online is reporting daily on the london biennale which runs until Sunday June 25. Send us your own 200-word review or photograph of any event for the chance to win an exclusive sheeplight. Champagne for runners up.
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NewsBiennale bites: BDP's writer in residence makes a People Poem
BDP's writer in residence, Theresa Shiban, asked 100 people for a word about architecture and put them together to make a People Poem. Read the poem in full and Zoë Blackler's interview where she discovers what a poet and playwright can learn from architects.
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NewsReview: Will Hurst on Architecture Rocks
Saturday's Architecture Rocks party was a night of surprises. Not least, as Will Hurst discovers, that architecture really can rock
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My week by Jacob Bellwether: A Herdwick sheep's view of the London biennale. Monday to Sunday
Sunday: Jacob is finally taken to visit a building, and offers some last thoughts on Beauty.
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Photo diary: Architecture Rocks party, Saturday June 24. Part III
An eighties synth band, bare-chested Germans and a girl rocker in black leather. It was all there at the biennale's closing party. Our photographer Morley von Sternberg captured the action on and off stage. Part III
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Your say: Carla de Beer on The Big Debate
As the tall buildings bandwagon rolls on, Adam Caruso sounded a welcome note of caution at Friday night's skyline debate, writes Carla de Beer, winner of BD's ticket competition
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Competition: Win an exclusive Architecture Rocks T-shirt
Send us your best photograph from Saturday night's Architecture Rocks party for the chance to win a limited edition souvenir T-shirt
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NewsPhoto diary: Architecture Rocks party, Saturday June 24. Part I
An eighties synth band, bare-chested Germans and a girl rocker in black leather. It was all there at the biennale's closing party. Our photographer Morley von Sternberg captured the action on and off stage
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Photo diary: Architecture Rocks party, Saturday June 24. Part II
An eighties synth band, bare-chested Germans and a girl rocker in black leather. It was all there at the biennale's closing party. Our photographer Morley von Sternberg captured the action on and off stage. Part II
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Review: Ellis Woodman on The Big Debate
A heavy-weight line-up took to the stage of the Barbican theatre on Friday evening to discuss the future of London's skyline. It won't be the final word on tall buildings, says Ellis Woodman, but it could help kick start a more critical debate
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My week by Jacob Bellwether: A Herdwick sheep's view of the London biennale. Saturday
Saturday: Jacob prepares for a night of gurning and headbanging at the Architecture Rocks Party
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Review: Minnie Weisz's exhibition King's Cross as Camera Obscura
Marguerite Lazell learns how artist Minnie Weisz has captured a run-down quarter of the capital in a series of melancholic images
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NewsBiennale bites: Boris at Breakfast; no-shows in Southwark; Gherkin groundhog day
Ellen Bennett and James Rose's latest reports from the festival
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My week by Jacob Bellwether: A Herdwick sheep's view of the London biennale. Thursday
Thursday: Jacob produces compelling evidence that architects are more boring than sheep.
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My week by Jacob Bellwether: A Herdwick sheep's view of the London biennale. Friday
Friday: Some of Jacob's colleagues fail to return from the Borough Market Feast.
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Review: Edwin Heathcote on Peter Ackroyd
Last night London's biographer Peter Ackroyd explored the sacred role of the river Thames in a talk at Tate Modern. Edwin Heathcote was left with as many questions as answers
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Pick of the day, Friday June 23: Roger Zogolovitch on Social Cinema
Roger Zogolovitch chooses a screening of short films featuring a 1975 lecture by Cedric Price. Tonight's screening, the second in a series of interventions transforming spaces into temporary cinemas, will take place by the Finsbury Health Centre.
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NewsYour say: Nico Macdonald on Simon Jenkins
Nico Macdonald enjoys a Blueprint Big Breakfast with columnist Simon Jenkins but finds him overly nostalgic and in love with the past
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NewsReview: Edwin Heathcote on the Sub Urban exhibition
Edwin Heathcote attends Wednesday night's opening of Sub Urban and is impressed by this haunting vision of London's underbelly