All Building Design articles in 2 September 2005
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Building StudyWinning style
Haworth Tompkins’ student housing in north London is an example of what should be up for the Stirling
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NewsIn the round
A new apartment block designed by Manchester practice Andrew Wallace Architects is under construction in the Ancoats area of Manchester. The seven-storey, £5 million circular housing scheme overlooks the New Islington development in east Manchester masterplanned
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OpinionStop rationalising
I went to a lecture last night [August 24], one of the Architecture Foundation’s Summer Nights series. Jonathan Woolf of Woolf Architects began by dragging us through some of his influences and references: from Palladio through some obscure oil painters. Why? Why do architects do this? Is it because they ...
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NewsWalk in the Parc
Holder Mathias Architects has submitted a new £60 million Center Parcs complex for planning permission.
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TechnicalThe only way is up
With a shortage of central London sites, air-rights developments appear to be making a resurgence
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Opinion
Martin’s a treasure
Now my RIBA presidency is finally over, one of the few things I shall really miss is the regular leg pull that I received from Ian Martin over the past two years or so. In spite of his caustic satire he should be listed as a grade I national treasure. ...
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NewsMaking their own rules
Women in the property industries are creating opportunities with a new brand of ‘jolly’
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Opinion
Poplar landmark
It was with great interest that we saw the first images of the Hawkins Brown scheme for Poplar, east London (News August 12).
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NewsTrees of Knowledge
Birmingham practice Sjolander da Cruz has unveiled images of a market square pavilion to be built in the town of Atherstone in north Warwickshire.
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NewsJump to it
Images of a striking 380m-long ski jump have been revealed by London-based architects m2r.
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Opinion
Ian Martin
Into the Vestibule of Rebirth is borne the seraphic figure of Mr Fred Trousers, Primus Excumbent Et Couchant
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ReviewSeamus Heaney and me
Sometime in the 1980s the poet Seamus Heaney addressed Irish architects (and students like me) on the poetics of architecture — it was liberating advice.
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Opinion
Expect more twists in the Holyrood mystery
The Edinburgh architects behind the Scottish Parliament might have expected a quiet life after the storm of working on one of the most controversial schemes of our time.
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News
Listed school could be demolished for housing
Lambeth council is considering delisting the grade II Lilian Bayliss School in south London, in a bid to free up the 2.5ha site for new housing. The move has raised concern at heritage group the Twentieth Century Society.
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Opinion
School daze for the next generation
Here’s a story about a young(ish) practice whose work is not to everyone’s taste but which has something of a reputation, stretching beyond these shores, for doing challenging and innovative work.