All Building Design articles in 3 February 2006
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News
Treasury signals PFI reform
The Treasury has given its clearest indication so far that it is willing to reform the controversial PFI process in line with RIBA president Jack Pringle's Smart PFI model.
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News
Jackson walks the walk
Richard Jackson, a paediatrician by profession and the former health adviser for California state governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, was in London last week to tell none other than Prince Charles how the design of our environment has a massive influence on our health.
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Technical
Is the prefab revolution on hold?
They've been heralded as the future of building and the solution to housing shortages, yet prefabs have failed to take off. Elaine Knutt asks whether they still have a future
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News
Liverpool takes heritage hardline
The new leadership of Liverpool City Council will take a strong pro-heritage stance, refusing to "sit back and accept" the kind of proposals it would have "welcomed in the 1990s", it said this week.
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Opinion
Get ready for the robo-building
The power politics between designer and contractor could be about to change for ever.
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Building Study
Tony Fretton: A shift in scale
It’s a tricky step for any architect to move from the small to the large scale. Tony Fretton is making the leap with three high-end residential schemes in Amsterdam, but has he has managed the transition?
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News
Farrell's Lots Road gets nod from Prescott
Terry Farrell’s controversial Chelsea development Lots Road is finally set to go ahead after deputy prime minister John Prescott overturned the decision of a planning inspector.
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Review
Film theory fails to project
David Cunningham on a cinematic architectural installation at the AA
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News
NHS heralds fresh era in hospital design
Health secretary Patricia Hewitt signalled the end of the grand hospital this week when she unveiled a white paper ushering in a new generation of around 50 cottage hospitals providing out-patient services within local communities.
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News
Southwark to set up its own design review panel
An elite team of architects, many building in the borough, will begin advising the London Borough of Southwark on design next week after Cabe complained its design review panel was swamped with schemes from the authority.
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News
Croydon surprise
Foster & Partners' scheme for the London Borough of Croydon looks set to go ahead after a dramatic u-turn by the council.
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Review
Destruction as cultural cleansing
A new book examines how attackers use the tactical eradication of architecture.
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News
The changing face of healthcare...
The looming revolution in healthcare architecture could even surpass the radical changes which transformed hospitals in Britain with the creation of the NHS in 1947.
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News
Olympic changes
The designs that helped win London the Olympic Games in 2012 have been updated after a land deal with the owners of the nearby Stratford City development in east London.
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News
Caruso St John's crowning glory
Caruso St John Architects has beaten a shortlist which included Zaha Hadid and Peter Markli in the competition to build a Centre for Tourism & Culture in the Swiss-Italian town of Ascona.
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News
Group to campaign over Israel/Palestine projects
A pressure group aiming to spotlight the political role of Israeli architects in the occupation of Palestinian territories was set to be launched yesterday (Thursday) as BD went to press.