All Building Design articles in 30 March 2007
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NewsVinoly to masterplan Battersea Power Station
Rafael Viñoly has been appointed to masterplan the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station under a secret competition exclusively revealed in BD.
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ReviewNew books for April
New titles including La maison de Verre and the Architecture of Alexandria and Egypt.
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CompetitionsYAYA: The Video
From the shortlist announcement to the final judging, see last year’s Young Architects of the Year in action
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NewsNews Junkie: 31 March and 1 April
This week: the world's first hydroelectric house is restored, posh and scuzzy casinos are compared, and another of Prescott's Pathfinder schemes gets a spanking...
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OpinionOn the waterfront
The film On the Waterfront concerns the role of waterside culture in defining cultural relations in port cities.
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OpinionRighteous writes
Adding to the debate “Do local campaigners have too much power?” (March 16), I want to cite a current example.
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News
Oval Road project moves on site
PKS Architects’ £30 million Oval Road apartment development in Camden Town, north London, is now on site.
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Wimpey and Woodrow merger
The largest deal in the continuing consolidation of the UK’s house-building industry, the proposed £2.5 billion purchase of George Wimpey by Taylor Woodrow, could be derailed.
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OpinionLosing the ‘vision thing’
Cabe is right to ask why the BBC compromised on its commitment to design in its redevelopment of Broadcasting House
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Opinion
Local triumph
Your readers may like to know that, since I last wrote (March 23), our council has rejected the application to which I referred.
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Opinion
No leg to stand on
What a shame that Alison Carr is defending Arb’s mistakes of the past instead of proactively correcting its actions for the future (Letters March 23).
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Opinion
Reputation intact
Piers Gough was distinctly tired and emotional before he even reached the pub to celebrate the decision to grant planning for his friend Frank Gehry’s landmark King Alfred scheme in Hove.
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NewsFloating ideas for London
This surreal design of temporary floating islands in the River Thames by architect Tomas Klassnik is a vision of London in the future, as it adapts to the pressures of climate change and soaring summer temperatures.
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Save loses Guildhall fight
Campaigning group Save Britain’s Heritage has lost its High Court battle against Westminster council’s decision to permit the conversion of the listed Middlesex Guildhall into a Supreme Court— to be designed by Feilden & Mawson.
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OpinionSinking feeling
As Norman Foster prepares to sell his practice for a reputed £300 million, clues are leaking out of what the septuagenerian intends to do with all that time.
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Opinion
Slaves to fashion
English Heritage’s barrister Robert McCracken took a side swipe at the City’s position on slavery in the public inquiry into the “walkie-talkie” tower.
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Mosque drops Mangera
Young Architect of the Year runner-up Mangera Yvars’ flagship project — a huge mosque in east London — was in serious doubt this week after a shock announcement by client and evangelical Islamic group Tablighi Jamaat.