All Building Design articles in 23 March 2007
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CompetitionsHoliday let - Tuscany, Italy
Small village house in northern Tuscany, three bedrooms, terrace and large hillside garden with above ground pool...
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CompetitionsHoliday let - Woolacombe, North Devon
Spacious house with two 4-bedroom self-contained flats overlooking beach at Woolacombe, adjoining the North Devon Coastal Path...
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CompetitionsHoliday let - Glenisla, Scottish Highlands
Set on the Border of Angus and Perthshire, an area renowned for its rare flora and fauna, Ault na Vournoch is a well equiped two public, two bedroomedcottage available for holiday lets between April and October each year...
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Competitions
Holiday let – South Africa
Visiting South Africa this year? Don't forget the Kruger National Park with its magnificent wildlife and surroundings. One week availability from 31 August to 7 September...
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NewsRichard Rogers clinches the Pritzker Prize for 2007
Richard Rogers has won the Pritzker Architecture Prize for 2007, becoming only the fourth British architect to take the award. Judges praised the RRP founder as "a champion of urban life".
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NewsCorporation decision "ruthless and dictotorial" says Stirling
James Stirling, writing in BD in 1989, defends his Southgate estate in Runcorn after residents voted to have it knocked down
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NewsJim's Runcorn housing in shock demolition vote
How BD reported the news in 1989 that Stirlings Runcorn housing was to be demolished
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Building StudyStairway to heaven
In this 2003 article from our archive, Ellis Woodman reviews the work of artist Mark Pimlott, the subject of this week’s building study. At La Scala, Aberystwyth, he found an architectural intervention that aimed to reanimate the sixties complex where it was sited
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TechnicalTwo clients grabbing sustainability by the horns
A road to Damascus conversion or just greenwash? asks our sustainability blogger Phil Clark
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Review
From The Poetics of Cybridized Architecture by Neil Spiller
"My organization is the sloth like profession of architecture. My language is a symbiotic broth of purple prose, baroque waywardness and surrealist spatial protocols invigorated by space that does the many spangled two-step between the treacle space of out here and the slippery cyberspaces of inside computers."Nominated by Rob Backhouse-Cook ...
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News
Tate extension gains planning - images
Herzog & de Meuron’s daring extension to the Tate Modern gallery on London’s south bank has been approved by Southwark Council’s planning committee.The pyramid-like development, which Tate hopes to complete in time for the 2012 Olympics at a cost of around £215 million, will extend to the south of the ...
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OpinionAnonymous Architecture
UEL Masters student Theo Honohan explores the inconsistency in architects' desire for anonymity in his latest posting for Student Space
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NewsNews Junkie: 24 and 25 March
Olympic knotweed. Self-build pensioners. The government's new traffic signals. Amphibious buses in Manchester. Fat budgerigars. And more. All in this week's despatch...
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News
Surface sing a rainbow...
These otherworldly designs by Surface Architects are part of a newly completed film and visual media research centre for London’s Birkbeck College.
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NewsOMA’s ‘Tetris’ tower for Singapore
Rem Koolhaas’s practice OMA has been commissioned to design this 36-storey Tetris-style residential tower in Singapore, its first building in the city.
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Opinion
Name shame
Protection of title may be an ongoing issue for architects but spare a thought for engineers, who have no such protection.
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NewsSwansea scheme moves on site
Holder Mathias Architects’ £11 mil- lion apartment scheme for Swansea Housing Association is now on site.
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Opinion
Misplaced loyalty
Alison Carr’s letter on Arb (March 16) presents a defence of the indefensible. Loyalty is of course a virtue, but just how loyal the new registrar should be to her recent predecessors must be examined carefully for several reasons.