All Building Design articles in 7 January 2005
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Opinion
Teachers not stars
I disagree with Zaha Hadid about the Architectural Association’s need for a big hitter (News December 10).
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Opinion
More on marketing
It is perhaps not surprising to see such strong reactions to your article “Lessons in lucre” (November 26) as, indeed, some of the views expressed by Robert White in the workshop were rather provocative.
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ReviewLose yourself
Inspired by the uniform, low-cost architecture of the seventies and eighties in her native Poland, artist Monika Sosnowska has reconfigured the Serpentine Gallery to form a labyrinthine installation that challenges the visitors’ sense of orientation.
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TechnicalLooks like rain
Damian Arnold reports on a weather-recording art installation in Exeter by Sutherland Hussey
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NewsSexism: the real life story
A culture of long-hours coupled with sexism makes it hard to combine motherhood with being an architect
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Opinion
Less of the lucre
As an attendee at the session reported in “Lessons in lucre” (November 26), I was concerned to read the subsequent article and feel the need to comment on two main points.
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Opinion
Toilet humour
So Philippe Starck was embarrassed by the inappropriate completion, by a local practice, of a design which he dashed off in half an hour (News December 10). Perhaps he should put the time in for himself…From Paul Strong, Newcastle upon Tyne
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OpinionTsunami survivors need homes now
The death toll grabs the headlines, but it is the disaster of homelessness that matters most now for the survivors of the Asian tsunami. The United Nations estimates that 5 million people across the region are in that dangerous predicament.
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NewsProfession hit by tsunami tragedy
A trainee architect died in the tsunami disaster and his girlfriend is missing, feared dead.
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Opinion
Help not just for the privileged
I am very heartened to see the amount of support — including financial — offered to the threatened Cambridge School of Architecture.
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Building StudyGlazing over
Foster’s big gesture at Gateshead’s Sage Music Centre — a single unifying membrane-like envelope — isn’t new for the architect. But practice hasn’t made perfect, and while the concert halls succeed, the external form disappoints again and again
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ReviewForm follows fantasy
David Cunningham enjoys a book exploring the link between surrealism and architecture
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Features
Radar: Tim Evans
Books Currently sitting on my bedside table are a diverse collection of books: Karaoke Capitalism by Jonas Ridderstrale and Kjell Nordstrom, one of the most engaging books on running a business; George Monbiot’s The Age of Consent, which proposes a world with free trade and proportionally represented world government; and ...
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News
Hutchinson spurred on by narrow escape
A leading architect escaped death in the Asian tsunami and spent two days hiding in the jungle.
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News
Holyrood haunts Scots court project
A £134 million redevelopment of Scotland’s Supreme Court building, Parliament House, has been dramatically frozen amid fears of a second Holyrood debacle.
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ReviewConcrete views of Japanese life
Pamela Buxton talks to Phoebe Dakin about her vision of Japan
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NewsWhy this change matters
Today we are asking you to confront a shameful truth: the shocking ratio of women to men in architecture. Fewer than one in seven architects are women. They make up 14% of the profession when they should be 50%.