All Building Design articles in 27 July 2007
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OpinionCoffee Hall, Springfield and Neath Hill
As part of our week-long special celebrating Milton Keynes at 40, Zoë Blackler and photographer Ed Tyler take a tour of the city. Here they visit schemes by Richard MacCormac and Wayland Tunley
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ReviewShifts - Until October 14
An exhibition taking Patrick Abercrombie’s unrealised 1946 Clyde Valley Regeneration plan as its starting point, SHIFTS offers proposals by leading Scottish and international architects to address the equally profound challenges facing the region today.
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CompetitionsHoliday let - cottage in north Cornwall
Architect-designed cottage in village 400 yards from coast path near Trebarwith Strand.
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ReviewThomas Schütte: Fake/Function? - until January 6
An exhibition on Thomas Schütte’s (b.1954), timed to coincide with the unveiling of the artist’s sculpture for the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square.
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MultimediaPodcast: Geoff Shearcroft and Derek Walker
The AOC's Geoff Shearcroft interviews Milton Keynes's chief architect about the key to the city's success
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OpinionLearning from Milton Keynes
Invited to interview a past master for the AF's Gold Lecture series, Geoff Shearcroft chose Derek Walker, Milton Keynes's former chief architect. The success of the city, Shearcroft argues here, offers a vital lesson for today's housing architects
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OpinionRalph Erskine's Eaglestone
As part of our week-long special celebrating Milton Keynes at 40, Zoë Blackler and photographer Ed Tyler take a tour of the city. Here they visit Eaglestone by Ralph Erskine
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ReviewIndoors and Out: The Sculpture and Design of Bernard Schottlander - until January 6
Welder turned furniture designer turned sculptor Bernard Schottlander fled Germany at the start of the second world war and trained in Leeds before setting up as a furniture designer manufacturing his own designs.
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OpinionCentral Milton Keynes
As part of our week-long special celebrating Milton Keynes at 40, Zoë Blackler and photographer Ed Tyler take a tour of the city. Here they visit the shopping building and tree-lined boulevards of Central Milton Keynes
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Building StudyNorman Foster's Beanhill
As part of our week-long special celebrating Milton Keynes at 40, Zoë Blackler and photographer Ed Tyler take a tour of the city. Here they visit Norman Foster's run-down Beanhill housing scheme
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Building StudyNetherfield by Jeremy Dixon, Edward Jones, Michael Gold and Chris Cross
As part of our week-long special celebrating Milton Keynes at 40, Zoë Blackler and photographer Ed Tyler take a tour of the city. Here they visit Netherfield designed by Jeremy Dixon, Edward Jones, Michael Gold and Chris Cross
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Competitions
To let - building which would suit an architectural practice
The building, The Old Boathouse, is located on the Thames near Maidenhead Bridge (postcode SL6 0AA).
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FeaturesChild of the grid
For the children whose parents built the new city, Milton Keynes has proved an enduring influence. Architect Andrew Waugh describes how the city and its shortfalls continue to inspire him
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OpinionNever say Nether again
As the masterplan for Milton Keynes took shape, idealistic young architects seized the chance to experiment with new housing on an unprecedented scale. Edward Jones looks back at life in the development corporation's windowless yellow HQ and how optimism turned to disappointment at Netherfield.
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OpinionMilton Keynes: The making of a suburban dream
From a stretch of rural Buckinghamshire to a 250,000-strong city, Zoë Blackler charts the history of an extraordinary building project
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FeaturesBD's mystery voice competition
Name the mystery voice and win a £25 music token in the first of our new weekly competitions
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NewsNews Junkie: 28 and 29 July
This week: the Tsar of St Partysburg who lives in the Versailles of Hampstead, Jeremy Clarkson's brilliant plan to conserve the countryside, and how architects can spend 'a bearable 23%' of their earnings...
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OpinionThe vision for Milton Keynes
Forty years ago, with the country facing a growing housing crisis, plans began to build a new forest city in rural Buckinghamshire. As the utopian vision for Milton Keynes took shape, the German artist Helmut Jacoby produced a series of beautiful renderings of how the new city would look.
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OpinionWho should win the Stirling Prize 2007?
Architects and BD writers give their verdicts on the six buildings on the Stirling shortlist
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News
Tall buildings will have to meet higher eco standards, say Cabe and EH
Tall buildings will be expected to exceed all current sustainability guidelines under new rules drawn up by Cabe and English Heritage.The two watchdogs want skyscrapers to act as “exemplars”, performing above current regulations for minimising energy-use and reducing carbon emissions over the lifetime of the development.Lucy Carmichael, senior design review ...