All Building Design articles in 18 April 2008
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ReviewTrend: Reductions
Many designers have sought to dematerialise their furniture or reduce it to its most basic form.
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ReviewTrend: Infusions
The exploration of the traditional, which in recent years has been more at the level of surface pattern, is increasingly focusing on silhouette.
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ReviewMilan interviews: Nigel Coates and Naoto Fukasawa
Interview with Nigel Coates: ‘The difference in a curve on furniture is as precise as on a pair of glasses’
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ReviewBD’s top five chairs from the Milan Furniture Fair
1. Alexander Taylor’s Uniform chair for Established & Sons.2. Bertjam Pot’s Vica chair for Moooi3. Cappellini’s folding Stitch chair.4. Stripe chair for L’Abbate.5. Jasper Morrison’s Basel chair for Vitra.
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NewsNorman Foster's tax status questioned in Parliament
Lib Dem peer raises questions over BD's claims Foster has become a Swiss resident
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ReviewMilan 2008's feast of furniture
Fresh back from tasting the latest wares at the world’s largest furniture fair, Will Hunter tells us what was cooking in Milan
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NewsHOK chief says architects favour celebrity over sustainability
The chairman of one of the world’s biggest practices has attacked the profession for favouring celebrity over sustainability in their approach to design.HOK’s Bill Valentine claimed architects were still more interested in appearing on the cover of magazines than truly embracing green design.The comments follow a speech last month by ...
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NewsCastleford TV show delayed till autumn
A Channel 4 series billed as the first televised regeneration scheme in the UK is now likely to hit the small screen four years later than originally planned.The repeatedly-delayed programme, presented by Grand Designs broadcaster Kevin McCloud, chronicles the regeneration of Castleford in Yorkshire through 11 schemes by architects including ...
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NewsThames Gateway needs a single authority, Quintain boss tells conference
The troubled Thames Gateway project should be delivered by a single unitary authority, leading figures including regional design champion Terry Farrell are set to tell the government.Speaking last week at a conference on low-carbon development, Quintain Development chief executive Adrian Wyatt revealed that he and Farrell are part of a ...
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BlogsNews Junkie — 19 and 20 April
The Great Euro-Stench, dawn of the Johnson Era and noisy nocturnal sea defences.
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NewsLRW completes buy-out as parent company collapses
Manchester architect Leach Rhodes Walker (LRW) has completed a management buy-out from parent company Erinaceous Group, which went into administration this week.LRW, which employs 125 employees at its two offices in Manchester and Bucharest, said the deal - completed in just four days - had secured the jobs of all ...
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TechnicalTimeless Tube
A new stainless-steel handrail section (pictured) that allows for easy installation has been developed by Timeless Tube.
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Opinion
Steamy saga
Since it opened in summer 2006, Grimshaw’s Thermae Bath Spa has proved a hit with visitors. But not all is rosy, Boots hears.
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TechnicalRooflight revolution
The Rooflight Company has produced Neo, a dark grey double-glazed frameless rooflight that uses a unique glass fibre and polyester resin material called Fortecom.
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NewsTake a peer at prize pier
Logan Doak, a 28-year-old student at the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture in Aberdeen, has designed the winning entry for the redevelopment of Helensburgh Pier on the Firth of Clyde.
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OpinionMockery of the planning system
I was interested in Marcus Fairs’ comments (Opinion, April 4) and in the letters in response. Hackney is not alone in falling victim to the “tricky developer” and the apparent failings of the planning and building control systems to control “unauthorised development”.
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News
Lord’s masterplanners shortlisted
The Marylebone Cricket Club has shortlisted BDP, David Chipperfield, Dixon Jones, Herzog & de Meuron and Hopkins Architects to create a masterplan for the £200 million redevelopment of Lord’s.
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OpinionTown Krier
Leon Krier, last seen on a public platform in the UK four years ago, has been persuaded to leave his villa in the south of France and take part in a debate at the Royal Geographic Society in June.