All Building Design articles in 22 July 2005
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Building StudySlice of urban
Assertive yet portable, Southwark’s new public face offers a taster for the Olympics
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News
Powerplay
The government this week announced new plans to link the release of land with the local housing market. The plans were universally criticised by planning experts at the Royal Town Planning Institute and the Town & Country Planning Association for endangering regeneration.Regeneration quango English Partnerships has announced that the former ...
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News
People
Architect David Adjaye’s collaboration with artist Chris Ofili has been purchased by the Tate Gallery. The Upper Room is a space designed by Adjaye and houses 12 paintings of Rhesus monkeys by Ofili.Superstar architect Frank Gehry has been commissioned to design a $1 billion masterplan for the Grand Avenue in ...
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Opinion
A matter of size
While I agree with Pascale Scheurer (Letters July 15) that competitions and tendering procedures for smaller Olympic projects be tailored to small practices, I disagree that they should only be open to young members of the profession.
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Opinion
Show letdown
I contributed a short review in your student shows piece on the assumption that you would do a full round-up of all our schools.
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Opinion
We need a leader
There is no doubt that we have the architects capable of designing the Olympic development, but now we need a co-ordinator of the calibre of Hugh Casson, who was so successful in getting everyone to work together on the 1951 Festival of Britain exhibition.
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ReviewJacques Tati and me
Comic French film-maker Jacques Tati worked from the forties to the late seventies.
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Opinion
Saving homes
I am writing to correct your article “Prince Charles backs Pathfinder bulldozers” (News July 15). It incorrectly states that the Enquiry By Design report by the Prince’s Foundation calls for the demolition of 225 homes in Nelson, East Lancashire.
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NewsHit and miss
Zaha Hadid’s office was celebrating yet another win this week following the news that it had secured the commission to redesign Eleftheria Square in Nicosia, Cyprus (pictured).Gillespies urban design firm and Westminster council have unveiled designs for a revamped Leicester Square. Raised lawns will be added to the square, as ...
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TechnicalHousing’s heat wave
A Madrid project by Feilden Clegg Bradley holds solutions for global warming
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News
Great Stowe
One of Britain’s finest 18th century neoclassical great houses, Stowe House in Buckinghamshire, has unveiled newly restored hidden treasures.
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TechnicalGetting more Zeds in
Following BedZed’s success, Bill Dunster reveals how he is refining the concept to create cheaper and greener eco-homes en masse
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Opinion
Fallen gem
It was perhaps thought-provoking that in the issue that was justifiably filled with triumphant anticipation for the spectacular architecture of the Olympics;
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NewsWilkinson Eyre goes Dutch
The Netherlands’ first suspension bridge, designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects, has been lifted into place.
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ReviewThe duckman proves triumphant
Time has vindicated William Jordy’s theories favouring ‘ducks’ over ‘decorated sheds’, writes Neil Jackson
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Opinion
Dont hang on every word
What are we to make of the headline “The Lying Game” (News - July 15)? That architects are liars? And what does that mean?
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TechnicalI wish I'd done that... Housing project
Ben Derbyshire on Herzog & de Meuron’s apartment building in Paris
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NewsDocklands duet
Believe it or not, this development at London’s Canary Wharf, which has just won planning approval, was designed by world-famous architects Cesar Pelli and Will Alsop.
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News
Truce over Northern housing demolition
The government and heritage campaigners are poised to call a truce over controversial plans to demolish thousands of homes in the North, with the government pledging to take heritage into account when drawing up plans.