All Building Design articles in 3 June 2005
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Opinion
Surely a typo
In response to the Adjaye Associates recruitment advert (Jobs May 27): Architecture studio based in inner London and expanding into Japanese market seeks architectural assistant… with excellent knowledge of Japanese regulations and construction methods. Must be fluent in Japanese and English… Previous experience in architectural practices in both Japan and ...
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Opinion
Signing in vein
I, too, have had a planning application spurned because the application was signed in black fountain pen and therefore apparently impossible to distinguish from the photocopy (Letters May 27).
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News
Powerplay
RIBA president George Ferguson was at an international architecture conference in Trieste, Italy, last week. The conference, which was also attended by Richard Rogers, was convened to discuss universal recognition for architects working outside their country of origin in Europe.Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell has announced that the Live 8 concert, ...
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News
People
Oren Lieberman has been appointed as the new head of the Canterbury School of Architecture. Lieberman, a lecturer at Strathclyde University, will replace Don Gray. Gray left KIAD earlier this year to head up a new rival school of architecture at the University of Kent. The RIBA is calling for ...
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Opinion
Pathfinder takes a wrong turning
Malcolm Fraser rightly condemns the insensitive government Pathfinder housing programme for the ecological obscurity that it is (Soapbox May 27).
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NewsMade for Madrid
David Chipperfield Architects has completed a new social housing scheme in Madrid, Spain.
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Opinion
Taking inspiration from Swiss masters
Architecture schools are brimming with nervous energy.
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Opinion
Icons square off
How intriguing that, after Alsop and Allies & Morrison’s much-reported “icon vs non-icon” spat, when they were given offices to design in Southwark (News Analysis, May 20) they both produce square glass boxes covered with coloured vertical fins. Maybe they should kiss and make up.Paul Zara, London
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Opinion
Ian Martin
At Tyburn Hill, capital punishment will be brought into the 21st century via a live feed from Texas
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News
Hit and miss
Richard Rogers Partnership’s Convoys Wharf scheme in east London has won planning permission, despite widespread local opposition. The development, for media mogul Rupert Murdoch, features three residential towers of 40, 32 and 26 storeys.The Twentieth Century Society has been denied access to Giles Gilbert Scott’s iconic brewery buildings in Park ...
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Opinion
Higher purpose
Has anyone noticed how architects are convinced that God is in the details, while the rest of the population insists that it is the Devil who’s in the details. I am wondering what that says about architects?William Dawson, London
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ReviewJimi Hendrix and me
It was either 1966 or 1967: In our uniform of army surplus great coats — the renegade troopers of the Bury St Edmunds counter-culture — we folded ourselves into Roderick’s mum’s Hillman Imp and made our way through the market towns of mid-Suffolk, laconic conversation accented by the sucking of ...
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NewsA paler shade of green
Changes to intended use mean eco-buildings might not be as environmentally friendly as architects claim
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Opinion
Its good to talk
The normal practice when dealing with a planning application is for the planning officer to phone the architect if they have a problem with a part of the design.
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Review
Heres one I prepared earlier
A new book vents frustration at architects’ lack of vision for prefabricated housing
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NewsDivine intervention
EPR Architects has won planning permission for a new church, community facilities and affordable housing on the Isle of Dogs in east London.
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News
Overruns fail to derail Lift health scheme
The government’s spending watchdog has given its approval to the controversial £1.2 billion local improvement finance trust (Lift) healthcare programme, despite massive delays and cost overruns on the first projects.
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NewsA dazzling display of detritus
Herzog & de Meuron has turned the Turbine Hall into a jumble sale of their most extraordinary ideas
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ReviewHue and cry
The crowd-pullers at the Barbican’s After Klein show disappoint, but it is the less familiar that add the real colour