All Building Design articles in 20 May 2005
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Building StudyVroom with a view
Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher have rewritten the rules of factory design at BMW’s Leipzig plant with its seamless flow between production line and office floor
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NewsSpotcheck: Wales
Mounting funds Plans for a new cafe on the top of Mount Snowdon to replace one famously described as a “slum” by Prince Charles have received a major boost. The £2.2 million appeal for a new facility — designed by a group including architects Furneaux Stewart, DMS Architects and Faulks ...
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NewsSheltered steps
Jefferson Sheard Architects has unveiled plans for the £5.5 million redevelopment of the historic Waverley Steps in Edinburgh.
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News
Powerplay
The Corporation of London cannot force Minerva to start work on the Grimshaw-designed Minerva Tower, a planning report has said. The report is a response to a demand from one of the corporation’s other committees that the developer either start on site or pays its Section 106 contributions for the ...
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Opinion
Planning push
In response to “A web of illiteracy and officialdom” (News May 6), Hackney planning department has made great strides to improve service delivery.
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News
People
Celebrity developer Donald Trump is championing engineer Ken Gardner’s designs for Ground Zero in New York. Trump has branded Daniel Libeskind’s Freedom Tower, the winning design for Ground Zero, “disgusting”.Stanley Hall Cox MBE died on April 28, aged 77. Cox was a teacher at the Welsh School of Architecture and ...
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FeaturesRoadtest: Moving mountains
Vue 5 Infinite lets designers quickly model natural environments. It’s impressive, say Phil Traviss and Jeremy Archer of visualising firm Designhive, but its application is limited
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News
Mills move on
MBLC Architects has won planning permission for an eight-storey mixed-use building in the historic Ancoats area of east Manchester.
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TechnicalMeet the masterminds
They are the who’s who of technical innovation — the 10 leading minds whose breakthroughs have transformed British architecture. Amanda Birch and Vikki Miller lured them out of their workshops and into the spotlight for BD’s six-page Innovators special
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Opinion
Ian Martin
Culture, as Suzi Towel constantly reminds us, never sleeps — ‘or if it does, it’s only in little naps’
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ReviewLiving up to the hype
Despite first impressions, Richard Weston finds evidence of a major talent in this David Adjaye
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FeaturesHow we did IT
This Jestico & Whiles image is part of a planning submission for the regeneration of Platts Eyot, an island with a history of boat-building in the Thames near Hampton Court.
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NewsHit and miss
Transport secretary Alistair Darling opened Wilkinson Eyre’s Pier 6 passenger bridge at Gatwick airport’s North Terminal (above) on Monday.A joint office venture by Make and RHWL has been granted planning permission by Camden council. The two-building development on Hampstead Road in north London is designed to set a new standard ...
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Opinion
Im only here for a peer
The pashmina-enfolded lovely ahead of me drifts into Lord Hesketh’s vegetable patch and stops dead in her tracks
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Features
Helpdesk: Is it safe to stray from microsoft?
I’ve heard that there are free alternatives to Microsoft products on the web. Are they any good, and can I trust them?