All Building Design articles in 27 April 2007
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Technical
Cool Wall: Rank the retail projects - images
Sybarite's new Milan boutique for fashion label Marni is among the latest additions to the Cool Wall. Vote on all competing retail projects - including Universal Design Studio's Liberty revamp and MMM's showroom for Swarovski - to affect their ranking and for the chance to win an iTunes token
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Features
Students: Win a trip to Amsterdam
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands is offering one lucky student the chance to join its office outing to Holland this month. Identify the famous Dutch buildings for the chance to win
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Building Study
Play Time
Dejan Sudjic reports on the playstructure designed by Florian Beigel's students in the long hot summer of 1976
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Competitions
For sale - Misc
For sale: Drawing Board 1100mm x 820mm, parallel motion, spring action with lock, white £50; 2 drawer Filing Cabinet £15 white; Reebok excercise bike cost £199 now £75; Brother Knitting Machine KH 840, used once,with folding table, manual, other accessories £50.Contact Elaine Charlesworth 0208 878 6317
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Competitions
For sale - Epson inkjet printer
Epson Stylus Photo 2100 A3 colour inkjet photo printer, complete with CD printing accessories. Simply too big for my workspace!£100 and buyer collects from Islington. Cost £500 three years ago.Also for sale old but decent 35mm slide projector. £75.e-mail john@harrises.eu
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Competitions
For sale - Ozaminor printer
Ozaminor 33FL Diazo Printer complete with Machine, stand, cover, 20 litres Ammonia Solution and operating & service instruction manual. 3 x 140 watt Hi Actinic Lamps, Maximum Print Width - 1220 mm (48"), Maximum Print Speed - 400 metres/hour (22 f.p.m.).Machine Dimensions - Height with Stand 1060 mm (41 ...
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Competitions
Architect of the Year Awards 2007 - Now open to entries
Is your work consistently excellent? Do you keep raising the bar with every building you design? Does your architecture wow your clients as much as the magazine editors? BD’s Architect of the Year Awards were set up three years ago to give you the recognition you deserve.
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Technical
The revolutionary skyscraper fire alarm
A revolutionary warning system for tall buildings which could help avert another 9/11-type disaster has been hailed by leading architects.The FireGrid system, developed over the past decade by Edinburgh University professor Jose Torero and funded by the BRE and Arup, comprises a system of sensors attached to a remote computer ...
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Features
Why the standing ovation?
Where is former RIBA president Owen Luder and why is everyone clapping? Were you there? What was the event? Tell us what you remember in the second of our new series of pictures from BD's archive
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Opinion
Blog: The value conundrum
Nick Johnson has a Thought about the difference between green buildings and organic broccoli
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News
Crystal Palace towers to be rebuilt
Brunel's 280ft water towers at south London's Crystal Palace Park will be recreated as sustainable energy towers under plans drawn up by German landscape architect Latz & Partner.The two original towers, which were removed during the second world war, stored water to feed a series of spectacular fountains at a ...
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News
News Junkie: 28 and 29 April
In this despatch: bins, earthquakes, Cornwall's sulky surfers, a professor of human radiation, 'tall, brick, barley-sugar chimneys thrusting skywards in a thicket', and why God's not Green.
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Competitions
Holiday let – Cevennes, France
Handsome old house (not immaculate but beautiful rooms) on village square.
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Competitions
For sale – House in Harrogate
Victorian stone semi, south side, five bedroom. Full CH, garage, short walk to town, well placed for good schools.
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Building Study
Liberty, Regent Street, London W1
Universal Design Studio has redesigned the store's central atrium to reflect the retailer's renaissance
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Building Study
The Brewery, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
ESA's £20 million scheme for Salmon Harvester on the site of a listed brewery has a sleek zinc roof with sky opening
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Building Study
Asprey & Garrard, New Bond Street, London W1
Foster & Partners' design for the flagship London store reflects the jewller's bold vision
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Building Study
Marni shop, Milan
At Sybarite's new Milan boutique for fashion label Marni the whole shop becomes the window display
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Building Study
Swarovski showroom, Innsbruck, by MMM
MMM designs new commission for Austrian crystal designer Swarovski
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Competitions
For sale - Archicad 10
Full commercial licence Archicad 9 originally purchased from Graphisoft via Bite Design and full upgrade included to Release 10.