All Building Design articles in 27 January 2017
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3-metre-wide house wins daylight award for the clever use of space
CASE STUDY Tim de Graag’s comprehensive renovation of a 3-metre-wide house in Zierikzee is an outstanding showcase of how to maximise light to enhance space. Instrumental in helping the young Dutch architect to realize his vision for this exceptionally narrow property were Glazing Vision’s rooflights. Indeed the jury, in presenting ...
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News
Rules slapped on Grimshaw's £17.6bn Heathrow expansion
Four-month public consultation on proposals launched
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Features
AYA 2017 shortlists: Education Architect of the Year (higher education)
We continue our series celebrating BD’s Architect of the Year finalists, looking at the higher education shortlist
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News
Competition launched to repair Clandon Park mansion
Grade I listed masterpiece was gutted by fire in 2015
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Features
AYA 2017 shortlists: Education Architect of the Year (nursery to 6th form)
We continue our series celebrating BD’s Architect of the Year finalists, looking at the education (nursery to 6th form) shortlist
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News
Hawkins Brown's Royal College of Surgeons redevelopment gets go-ahead
Scheme will replace postwar restoration, despite objection from heritage groups
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News
Calatrava set to unveil £1bn Greenwich project
Spanish architect behind budget-busting World Trade Center station lined up for major London scheme
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Opinion
Can council and housing association backed private development vehicles really deliver social housing?
More and more social housing is being delivered using a development rather than a grant funded model. Can these providers hold onto their founding principles or will profit get in the way asks Martyn Evans
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News
Twentieth Century Society sounds ‘buildings in peril’ alarm
Campaign group names central London library and Brutalist student union on most-at-risk list
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News
Funding fillip for Museum of London scheme
City and London mayor to bankroll three-quarters of its £250m pricetag
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News
SEW gets go-ahead for Barking town centre redevelopment
Vicarage Field plans will deliver new mall and 900 homes
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Technical
Great Arthur House, London, by John Robertson Architects
Chamberlin, Powell & Bon’s grade II-listed Great Arthur House in the City of London urgently needed a new facade but double glazing was too heavy for its structure. Thomas Lane found out how John Robertson Architects came up with a solution that retains its distinctive appearance
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News
Wright & Wright completes Royal Academy of Engineering revamp
Practice digs out basement for research and meeting space
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Opinion
Are architects victims of their own rhetoric?
How can we expect the public to engage with architects while they associate them with expensive minimalist schemes and unintelligible, self-serving language, says Eleanor Jolliffe
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News
Tower of London charity set for disappointment as Make scheme poised for approval
Planners recommend green light for 36-storey office block, despite concerns from Historic Royal Palaces and Victorian Society
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News
Zaha Hadid leaves bulk of £70m fortune in trust
Executors charged with distributing estate after debts, tax and £2.2m personal bequests
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News
Three developers in frame for £1bn Tottenham makeover
Winner chosen later this year for job being carried out as part of Spurs stadium revamp
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News
AHMM now tasked with homes plan for former Croydon council HQ
Original architect Make first won planning for Taberner House site in 2014