All Building Design articles in 20th Ocotber 2006
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Building Study
Theatre by the truckload
Four years after winning a design competition, Wright & Wright’s new home for the Hull Truck theatre company finally starts on site
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Opinion
Sound of silence
What has happened to the RIBA’s state-of-the-nation survey, which it commissioned as a way of improving communication with members and was meant to shape the RIBA’s agenda over the coming years? The answer is not a lot.
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Opinion
Walk at your peril
In your article “Cut obesity with design, says Cabe” (News October 13) you quote Jane Wardle of Weight Concern as saying that “people dismissed cycling to work on safety grounds but there was no danger in getting off the bus early and walking”. While I support any attempt to reduce ...
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Opinion
Plymouth horror
Just wish to clarify the “planning” aspect of the well-deserved Carbuncle Cup awarded to Drake Circus Shopping Centre, Plymouth.
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Opinion
Doing your homework
To make a difference, architects must keep up with ongoing research and monitoring
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News
Glazed look
Stephenson Bell has won a competition to design an office for Fountain Street in Manchester city centre.
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News
PRP Gateway scheme goes in for planning
PRP Architects’ masterplan for a £200 million re-development scheme in the Thames Gateway has been submitted to Basildon District Council for outline planning.
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Building StudyMaster gardener
Foreign Office Architects has created a matrix for a new garden on a Somerset estate. Ellis Woodman met Alejandro Zaero-Polo and client Niall Hobhouse. Portrait Morley von Sternberg
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NewsRogers looks to future...
Stirling- Prize winning practice tackles succession question by planning a change of name
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News
Lloyd’s recalls Flacq as listing row rumbles on
Lloyd’s of London has recalled Flacq, a young practice formed of ex-Richard Rogers staffers, to look at the future of its iconic headquarters following rows over its potential listing.
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News
Five go for gold as Maze makes
Five international practices have been shortlisted to design Northern Ireland’s new multi-sport stadium on the site of the former Maze prison.
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Features
Finding a simpler way of sharing
Broadway Malyan has long been a happy user of Autodesk’s Buzzsaw project collaboration tool. But now the practice is migrating to a rival product, explains the practice’s IT director Simon Johns
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News
London set for Games face-lift
Councils unveil £200m revampCentral London’s public realm is set to be transformed in time for the 2012 Olympics under £200 million proposals revealed by three powerful local authorities.Camden, Westminster and Kensington & Chelsea councils have joined forces to mastermind the “major refurbishment” project and recently met sports minister Richard Caborn ...
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News
Experts to review ‘radical’ heritage plans
Government-appointed experts are to meet in the next two weeks to review the “radical” Heritage White Paper, set to be published before Christmas.