All Building Design articles in 21 April 2006
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NewsOn the waterfront
Isis Waterside Regeneration has submitted a planning application to Haringey Council for a regeneration scheme designed by BPTW for Hale Wharf, Tottenham Hale.
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Racing stripes
Stuttgart's new Mercedes-Benz museum, designed by UN Studio's Ben van Berkel, Caroline Bos and Tobias Wallisser, has been completed, and is due to open on May 19.
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FeaturesRoadtest: Time to learn a new Repertoire
Steel manufacturer Corus has relaunched its on-line Repertoire colour and profile selection service. Michael Hellyer, project architect at Hamilton Associates, likes it
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Features
Silence of the Lammy
Next month David Lammy, minister for architecture, will have been in the post a full year, yet he is unknown to the profession and silent on architectural issues. Zoë Blackler discovers Lammy's lack of profile is matched by his lack of action
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Opinion
Stop the infighting
I wholeheartedly share Owen Luder and Frank Duffy's regret (Letters April 7) that in-fighting has been a feature of the RIBA/ Arb relationship, due, as I see it, to the board's determination to extend its responsibility for registration to include regulation - a comprehensive role which arguably stretches its powers ...
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Opinion
Ian Martin
Why have we allowed our glorious Empire to be foully besmirched by Mr Paxton's ‘monstrous carbuncle'?
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NewsViva Havana
With developers poised to swoop down on Cuba, what will become of Havana’s architecture? Kester Rattenbury says western models of redevelopment may destroy this extraordinary cultural marvel
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Opinion
Remaining green
Your article entitled "Cutting the Greenwash" (Solutions March 24) underlined the importance of post-occupancy monitoring in buildings designed to be energy-efficient which are failing to achieve their design targets.
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News
Gehry Hove scheme is ‘not viable'
Frank Gehry's scheme for the King Alfred site in Hove is "not viable" and will not be sufficiently profitable to enable developer Karis to provide the standard 40% affordable housing and pay section 106 contributions, an official valuation report has said.
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FeaturesHelpdesk: A few key questions
This month, I will address a question I'm often asked when using the keyboard to navigate through Windows and its applications while attending to people's PCs: "How did you do that?". This column is about shortcuts.
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News
Rising fees ‘put quality at risk'
The presidents of the RIBA and the RIAS expressed concern this week after architects claimed rocketing contractors' fees were putting design quality at risk.
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OpinionPhotograph fears
I am a British Muslim architect who, like most architects, is keen on taking pictures of buildings. Although I am clean shaven and quite a regular guy, I am obviously not of Anglo-Saxon appearance.
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News
Thousand-home eco-city planned for Gateway
Britain's largest zero-carbon development, modelled on Chinese eco-city Dongtan, could be built in the Thames Gateway, London mayor Ken Livingstone has announced from China.
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FeaturesEntering a new dimension
HOK is the latest, and highest-profile, UK architect to take the plunge and adopt Autodesk's 3D modelling tool Revit. David Littlefield spoke to the practice about how it is managing this fundamental change
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Features
Platform: David Littlefield
This month Westminster University hosted a conference devoted to architecture and technology. Much of it veered way off the subject, but some of it painted an intriguing picture of a possible future. Jon Goodbun, of the Working Architecture Group, posited an idea which he maintained was partially achievable, but the ...