All Building Design articles in 25 February 2005
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NewsSymphony in steel
Santiago Calatrava has unveiled striking new images of the £160 million Atlanta Symphony Centre.
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Opinion
Shooting target
Understandably, residents and landlords on the Aylesbury and Packington estates see demolition and redevelopment as an attractive quick fix.
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Opinion
Wonky wheels on PFIs trolley
An alien arriving in southern England this month would probably be pretty impressed with the architecture produced by the private finance initiative.
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Opinion
Misinformation
I would like to make a point relating to your article, “Salisbury quits Arb board” (News February 18).
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Opinion
Start listening to the kids
Sometimes it’s difficult to know how much responsibility to give children. Let them set their own school lunch menus and society’s efforts to combat obesity would sink quickly in a sea of fizzy drink and chips. Besides, that’s a job for Jamie Oliver,
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Building StudySeizing the initiative
With the completion of Brighton Library and the Home Office HQ, two buildings of architectural merit have emerged from the Private Finance Initiavtive. So can PFI deliver on quality?
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Opinion
Ian Martin
Mr Farquear’say faces a further civil charge of lying unconscious in a plaza. We argue that this subverts the ‘Tyranny of the Vertical’
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ReviewInspiration - Good from the trees
Around Berlin, the sandy earth supports copious birch and pine forests.
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News
Gateway panel on hold
London mayor suspends design panel to allow time to develop ‘3D vision’ for growth area
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NewsFosters peace mission
Senior staff at Foster & Partners wrestled with their consciences before deciding to design an ostentatious “Palace of Peace” for a regime universally criticised for its poor human rights record.
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NewsLocking out foreign talent
Legislation affecting the registration of overseas architects is driving talented designers from our shores.
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NewsFlight plans take off
HOK International has completed its £24 million designs for the AirSpace Project at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford, Cambridgeshire.
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Green fears over flood risk
Green Party London Assembly member Darren Johnson has laid down the gauntlet to architects to design flood resistant homes in the Thames Gateway.
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Opinion
Solid example
Congratulations to Ken Shuttleworth for attacking the tired cliche of “glass box” buildings, which are as boring as they are inefficient.
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Building StudyThe links effect
It looks progressive, but is the transport interchange at Vauxhall Cross a template for integrated transport architecture.