All Building Design articles in 8 July 2005
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Opinion
Turning on us
I have always been supportive of Arb, believing, as I did, that its prime purpose was to protect the public from the dangers associated with charlatans practising architecture. What I now perceive resembles a fierce guard dog that prefers to ignore the burglar while savaging its owner.
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Opinion
Water torture
Janet Street-Porter is still going on about the problems with her David Adjaye-designed house. In last week’s Independent on Sunday, she described him as “someone I dream of regularly ritually disembowelling or forcing to go through a nasty form of torture before mopping up the storm water in my living ...
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News
The seven-year sprint
As the cheers fade away, apprehension mingles with excitement at the sheer scale of the task ahead
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Opinion
Power trip
As one of the architects featured in your story about our dispute with Arb (News June 17), I guess I must be one of the “self-important barrack-room lawyers” that Chris Abbott refers to (Letters July 1). Abbott might be surprised to learn that I don’t disagree with his proposition that ...
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News
Power play
The planning system will be made more responsive to housing need under government plans. In her first major speech as housing and planning minister, Yvette Cooper told the Royal Town Planning Institute last week that the Barker Report meant planning policy should take better account of market signals such ...
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Technical
St Paul’s scrubs up a treat
Graham Bizley describes the painstaking process of cleaning and restoring the cathedral’s interior
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Opinion
Petulant parade
The usual crowd of architects made their way to Bristol last week for the RIBA conference, eschewing the delights of Live 8, Wimbledon and the rugby. But observers were left wondering how to describe architects en masse. Terry Farrell came to the rescue. The correct collective noun is, apparently, a ...
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Opinion
Olympic record
It was a travesty that you led by knocking London’s Olympic bid last week (News July 1), and relegated any support for the bid to page 8. If you had to lead with a negative story, it would at least have helped to evidence your piece about the alleged role ...
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Opinion
No non sense
HOK Sport architect Rod Sheard was transformed into an “international celebrity” this week, according to website Channel News Asia. Sheard, a member of the victorious London 2012 bid team, courted controversy by arguing that the Stade de France was not suited to athletics. But the resulting media storm did not ...
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Technical
Modern stars of the silver screen
Umu’s clever combination of innovative surface materials makes it a place to linger, says Amanda Birch
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Building StudyA slice of the old life
Procter Rihl’s modernist home in southern Brazil revives a once prevalent style, writes Matthew Turner
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Review
I know what you did this summer
We take a look at the end of year student shows at five of the country’s architecture schools
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NewsUnder the knife
Just how effective are public design reviews? Zoë Blackler reports from the first such UK blood-letting. Nurse, the screens...
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Opinion
Vested interests
Regarding the report that the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has praised the recent efforts of Arb in trying to dominate the architectural profession (News June 24), why has the prejudiced RICS been allowed to be involved in any such self-interested report/matters? For an institute that has free, unmonitored, uncontrolled, ...
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Opinion
Ian Martin
The Tamworth bid even allowed for overnight covers on the long-jump sandpit to stop cats shitting in it.
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Opinion
Road Leeds north to housing solution
So Richard Rogers has revealed plans to build a “city with the population of Leeds” in the Thames Gateway (News July 1). Has anyone asked the population of Leeds if it wants to live in Thames Gateway? Will they be given a choice, or are they just going to be ...
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News
Hit and miss
The first phase of the £700 million International Sports Village in Cardiff (above) is set to start on site in October. The masterplan, designed by Carey Jones Architects, comprises a casino, operated by Aspers, part of the Aspinall Packer Group, as well as a hotel, and a sport venue ...
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Opinion
Voting for gold
In the rush for the RIBA Royal Gold Medal, I, like the majority of my colleagues have become scientific wonders, namely, we have achieved total invisibility. How do I know that? Well, all the time those big names have been grubbing around trying to get votes, not once have they ...
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Opinion
Future proofing
Cabe chairman John Sorrell’s call for buildings and public spaces to help fight human obesity (News June 10) is spectacularly beside the point. Far more important is that buildings and open spaces themselves should fight their own obesity. Equally misguided, however admirable, is BD’s own search for responsible development under ...