All Building Design articles in 7 July 2006
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News
Six vie to transform Swindon
Architects including Make, Marks Barfield and Fletcher Priest are bidding this week for a £300 million development to transform Swindon.
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ReviewOut of the shadows
A new book on underappreciated Victorian ornamentalist Owen Jones should win him some new fans.
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Opinion
Welsh win would send wrong message
There will be several eyebrows raised this week over the inclusion, for the third year running, of a road on the shortlist for the prime minister’s better public building award.
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Opinion
I was there at non-riot meeting
I read your article “Phillips-induced riot fails to materialise” (News June 30) with interest. Far from being absent from the council meeting, I attended all the business items and presented three finance papers, including the 2005 annual accounts which show record turnover and profits under my stewardship as hon treasurer ...
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NewsRogers proteges miss out on Lloyd's redesign
Unknown practice replaces Flacq in cost-cutting move at insurance firm
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News
Serpentine Pavilion by Rem Koolhaas
“A non-pavilion” was what Rem Koolhaas promised and if you walked past the Serpentine Gallery only a fortnight ago that seemed to be exactly what we were getting.
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Opinion
Tub Haagendas
When we say ‘we’, of course we mean ‘I’. But we must say ‘we’ occasionally to please the tax people. Bleeagh!
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Building StudyGold standard
In London’s Hatton Garden, almost unknown territory for large office developments, AHMM’s Johnson Building mixes radicalism with sophistication.
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Opinion
So what are we going to do now?
Architects are middle-class people who build for middle-class people. The notion of architecture as a fully independent endeavor mirrors the rise of the middle class, becoming a way in which this rising class could represent itself, make itself real.
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TechnicalGimme shelters
A West Midlands scheme shows how building youth shelters can benefit both young people and architects.
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Opinion
Sheffield fledgling
I was disappointed to learn that the head of architecture at Sheffield University believes that “...there is no real connection between architecture and rock music” (Soapbox June 23). I studied at Sheffield from 1983 to 1990 and can recall no fewer than three bands led by architecture students that regularly ...
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News
Fears for Middlesex Guildhall
The Victorian Society has slammed architect Feilden & Mawson’s refurbishment plans for the grade II* listed Middlesex Guildhall on Parliament Square.
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News
EP to revise Northstowe plans
English Partnerships and developer Gallagher Estates are revising their masterplan for Northstowe, a key new town in Cambridgeshire.
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Opinion
Rural elitists
Our policy director, Nicholas Boles, finds the CPRE’s attack on Policy Exchange (News June 30) unwarranted. As its report shows, just 11% of England is urbanised, our houses are old, expensive and small, and people are increasingly being made to live in flats — points Policy Exchange has been making ...
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NewsLive and let Dyer
Just weeks after the break-up of mega healthcare practice Anshen Dyer, its parent company the Dyer Group has received government approval for its Gloucester Quays masterplan.
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Opinion
Dublin rats
While studying architectural technology in Bolton Street (now Dublin School of Architecture at DIT) in the early seventies, two of my classmates, Gerry Cott and Pete Cusask, teamed up with Sir Bob to form the Boomtown Rats. I never knew what Geldof actually studied — he was just there!I ...
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FeaturesInvention or discovery?
Before his talk this week at the Royal Academy, Kester Rattenbury met Peter Zumthor, the architect’s architect, to discover how he mixes reputation, integrity and theory at his 15-strong studio in Switzerland