All Building Design articles in 8 September 2006
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Opinion
Unfeasibility study
The house plans in the “Sustainability report” (Concrete Quarterly, September 1) will create more heat from users than the building conserves due to its mean layout.
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Review
Can Sheffield pull it off?
The British offering at the Venice Biennale paints an optimistic picture of the city’s future, but will it ever be realised? Zoë Blackler goes looking for the big ideas that could turn Sheffield around
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News
A peace of work
A ceremony marking the opening of Foster & Partners’ Palace of Peace & Reconciliation in Astana, Kazakhstan, took place on Monday.
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Opinion
Marina madness
I thought last week’s letter from Chris Teague of Cardiff was incredibly rude: tragically, Wales is the home of the plastic window and what good vernacular architecture they had has mostly been trashed.
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News
Timber row turns incendiary
In the wake of the massive Colindale fire, the timber-frame industry again finds itself fighting for survival — and traditional manufacturers have not been slow to fan the flames.
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News
Scottish watchdog signs up Hoskins
Scotland’s design watchdog this week announced a groundbreaking agreement with the Scottish Executive that it claims will give health projects north of the border the edge over those in England.
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Opinion
Gorilla warfare
There was I thinking that award-winning penguin pools and elephant houses were regarded as inappropriate in the 21st century, when BD devoted a whole page to the “ingeniously constructed” new gorilla enclosure at London Zoo (Solutions, August 25).
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News
Gherkin’s new neighbour
Allies & Morrison inadvertently gave a sneak preview of a new tower next to the Gherkin with this model display in its office window.
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Building Study
Games lesson
A tight budget but lots of empathy with the building’s users have created a basic but imaginatively light and airy structure housing a nursery and youth centre.
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Opinion
Frosty reception
I was a bit surprised at Amanda Birch’s slighting references to the BBC2 Blizzard programme in her article on Scott’s hut (Solutions, September 1).
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Opinion
Forget your peers, give us practicality
Architects hate Building Regulations because they represent, however crudely or simplistically, a kind of feedback from society.
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Technical
Naples goes with the flow
Rogers’ swirling, whirling roof to the Capodichino underground station is a bold statement.
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Opinion
Watch your figure
As chief executive of Local Authority Building Control, I was very concerned to read your front page story headlined: “Two in three architects believe building control damages design quality” (News, September 1).
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Opinion
Lost in exhibition
In 1967 at the Regent Street Polytechnic evening school of architecture I was awarded the Sir Bannister Fletcher prize for thesis design by Jim Stirling (with others).
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Opinion
Sifting through the embers for reason
The timber industry is on a roll, thanks to the government.
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Technical
Modular roofing made easy
Bus shelters are just the beginning for Bryden Wood Associates’ clip-on roof cassettes.
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Technical
I wish Id done that...Roof
Debby Kuypers on Kengo Kuma’s Hiroshige Ando Museum in Bato, Japan
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News
Doctoring the docks
Masterplanner Broadway Malyan has unveiled proposals for Wirral Waters, which it claims is the largest regeneration project in the country.