All Building Design articles in 25 May 2007
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Review10% off books about Frank Gehry
June's selection from the RIBA Bookshop features Frank Gehry, the subject of a new film which opens this month
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News
Stewart McColl resigns
The founder and deputy chairman of Britain's largest architectural firm has resigned amid warnings that practices within the SMC Group may have to close
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NewsRoyal Festival Hall refurb comes under fire
Allies & Morrison, the architect of the £115 million Royal Festival Hall refurbishment, has been forced to defend its work at the unveiling of the renovated building.Speaking at the press launch today, Catherine Croft, director of the Twentieth Century Society, said the heritage group deeply regretted the controversial loss of ...
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CompetitionsFor Sale - Country Cottage in Portugal
On the Silver Coast between two beautiful beaches and Obidos Lagoon.
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CompetitionsFor Sale - Classic car - NSU RO80
Exceptional condition – tax exempt, 2 owners from new - last owner for 20 years
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CompetitionsSummer Exhibition –until August 19
The Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition is here again, this time with Ian Ritchie curating the architecture component of the grand art show, which last year had more than 1200 exhibits.
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News
King's Cross judicial review - verdict
Argent wins the battle to redevelop London's King's Cross - unless protestors appeal
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FeaturesSir Frederick Gibberd 1908-84
As the architect of Harlow New Town, Heathrow Airport, the Regent's Park Mosque and the nuclear power station at Didcot, Sir Frederick Gibberd's career was more varied than most
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Opinion
Plagiarism: is it a crime or a compliment?
Should you be flattered or angry if another architect copies your work?
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ReviewTickling the tastebuds
This latest addition to the genre is sometimes succulent, but leaves you far from replete
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Opinion
Trend setter
The illustration to your note on Airey houses is actually of a Seco timber-framed temporary bungalow. Although designed for a 15-year life, many examples remain, well-loved by their inhabitants and consistently defended by them against demolition.
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Opinion
Sitting pretty
One of the perks of being the architect of the new Wembley stadium is enjoying the finished result, Norman Foster revealed at the Architecture Foundation’s Real Architecture talk this week.
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Opinion
Poverty track
Your leader correctly points out that the Practice Question (May 20) “offers some sound observations and useful suggestions,” but the poverty of most architects relative to doctors and solicitors is far from new.
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Opinion
Pie in the sky
Your photograph of the infamous three 14-storey slab blocks in sixties Everton (“A century of housing” May 18) brought back many memories.
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OpinionSpaced out
Another housing report, the Williams Report (BD May 18), comes from more very worthy practitioners hoping that good design will triumph in the mass housing market to put the sea of mediocrity firmly into the past.
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Opinion
Ominous slip
The lavish press launch of Zaha Hadid’s Opus building almost took a disastrous turn at the Lanesborough Hotel on Tuesday.
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OpinionWe must prepare for a post-green world
Architecture should take a tip from the fashion industry and push the next big thing before eco-fatigue sets in, says Ian Martin
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OpinionMaking a point
Chetwood Associates’ tree-like installation, Urban Oasis, seems to have taken on a life of its own.
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Opinion
Valuable legacy
Your front page last week was the clearest reminder of the importance of Colin St John Wilson’s written and built legacy of a caring and reasoned architecture in a profession increasingly complicit in its own emasculation as a serious and humanising cultural force.