All Building Design articles in 24 March 2005
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Technical
Techbrief
Blind ambition Burgess Fabric Engineering has developed a system that harnesses the solar energy of photovoltaics and motor technology by Somfy for use in a new housing scheme in Carshalton, Surrey, to activate the movement of fabric blinds. All the houses have a south-facing two-storey, double-glazed, conservatory, which ...
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News
Power play
The government must introduce effective new climate-change targets in order to meet its wider environmental goals, according to the Energy Saving Trust (EST). EST claimed this week that UK homes were wasting £5 billion worth of energy every year and recommended the government adopt targets to improve home and transport ...
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Opinion
Picking up the tab
How fortunate that the government, if not two of your contributors (“Is it ethically OK…” March 4), recognises the dangers of secondary or passive smoking.
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NewsPrincely living
Panoramic views across the river Mersey and Liverpool Bay are in store for the residents of AFL Architects’ dramatic second residential tower at Princes Dock, Liverpool.
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Building StudyImage maker
The British Council presents an open face to Kenya with its new building in Nairobi by Squire & Partners
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Opinion
Ian Martin
The cladding is derived from a custard apple. The stuff inside is not important so is mostly rhubarb
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NewsHit and miss
Grimshaw is to expand and renovate a prominent art museum in New York City. The project will double the size of the Queens Museum of Art. Grimshaw is one of eight practices taking part in the city’s Design Excellence initiative.Arup Associates has been called in to examine water supply problems ...
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News
Transport funding goldrush
The government unveiled its £200 million spending plans for vital transport infrastructure needed to deliver new housing in the South-east this week.
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ReviewIn love with a German film star
Catherine Croft struggles to find the thread in a book on Kracauer
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News
Farrell plots ‘intellectual quarter’
Terry Farrell has been commissioned to transform the area around University College London into an “intellectual quarter”, adding a third central London masterplan to the architect’s slate.
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News
Track event
David Morley Architects has unveiled designs for the £16 million new Lee Valley Athletics Centre in east London.
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Opinion
Ethics rake it in
RIBA president George Ferguson rightly reflected (Letters March 18) that the “ethics of practice should be taken extremely seriously”.
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ReviewInspiriation: Light entertainment
Offices are dull places. Rarely are they ascribed the meaning given to a house or a public building. Inside and out they disappoint for lack of character, exacerbated by remoteness from the exterior and the weather.
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OpinionForget the dreams, deal with reality
I think your article “Architects out of step with the public” (News March 18) relating to housing misses a key point.
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Opinion
Cutting-edge error
It’s poignant that within the covers of BD was a news story “Architects out of step with public” and a much larger one, possibly by way of explanation, showing the “cutting edge” exploits of the AA’s Emergence & Design Group. Its work cheered me up by reminding me of EO ...