All Building Design articles in 19 May 2006
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Features
From studio to workshop
After two weeks of intense work on the drawings, mock-ups and material orders, five of us arrived at Hooke Park on Monday at dusk, to a beautiful, exploding spring season.
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Features
Tomorrow the world
Collaborations with Google Earth are beginning to give architects, clients and even the public unprecedented ability to test-drive new schemes in virtual neighbourhoods
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Opinion
Undeserved praise
Cambridge residents may be surprised to learn we have to thank a "proactive" planning department for anything. (Works May 5) The ground-breaking development on Brooklands Avenue is not due to the planning department's efforts: quite the reverse.
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Opinion
Overseas students show superior skills
Arriving in Karachi is an unusual experience. A significant number of the meeters and greeters are carrying rifles, the temperature is 34°C and on the way into town the armed guards and I are overtaken by a moped carrying a family of four; the woman rides side saddle with a ...
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Features
Could I survive the loss of my laptop?
Helpdesk: Each month, Liam Southwood, co-founder of IT consultancy nittygritty, discusses key IT issues and replies to readers' queries
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News
Sole practioner joins RIBA president race
Rebel RIBA councillor Peter Phillips has entered the race for the RIBA presidency.
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Opinion
Ian Martin
The real secret in the Corb Papers is known only by a shadowy and ruthless cabal of modernists, possibly with a Latin name
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Features
Wanted: help with paperwork
Rolfe Judd director Ian McIntosh explains why his practice chose the practice management tool Workspace
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Technical
Winning green hearts
Is regulation or PR the way to win the sustainability debate? Elaine Knutt was at an Energy Saving Trust round table of architects looking for the answer
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Opinion
Greedy jibe unfair
As a construction lawyer who subscribes to BD and has written a number of standard form contracts, I was surprised by your argument (Leader May 12) that bespoke architects' appointments are created by lawyers to inflate their fees.
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News
Glazed over
Wilkinson Eyre's design for the redevelopment of the 1976 Museum of London was revealed this week.
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News
Tory vision of freedom
Gummer proposes scrapping planning restrictions and building regs to liberate design
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Opinion
Foreign worker influx raises questions
There is a new army of foreign workers in Britain - and they're not Polish plumbers. They are architects who are finding that life here, particularly in London, has more to offer than it does back home. The numbers are impossible to gauge so BD thought it would do its ...
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News
Green rhetoric exceeds reality
A Dublin conference called for sustainability in offices, but agents are a stumbling block
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Opinion
Diana obsession
Ivor Hall appears to have dedicated his life to the Diana Memorial. He has made countless requests to the DCMS under the Freedom of Information Act to gain information for a book.