All Building Design articles in 9 June 2006
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FeaturesStars off the pitch
Planning a visit to Germany this month? Need to hold your own against the hordes of beery philistines? Don't despair, BD has compiled a city-by-city guide to the architecture surrounding the various venues where England will - and might - be playing
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NewsYes, Minster
Carey Jones' £17 million residential development in Layerthorpe, York, just 700m from the Minster has been granted planning consent. The 365sq m scheme, being built by Tiger Developments, will create 158 one and two bedroomed flats alongside the River Foss.
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NewsOne in a million
This £21 million residential and commercial scheme by London-based Biscoe & Stanton architects boasts Cambridge's first £1 million apartment. The Belvedere's penthouse overlooks the city from the top of a 34m-high tower, which will be the city's tallest residential building when the project is completed in late summer.
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OpinionL'Obscurier
I require absolute silence between my 226 ml of orange juice and the first Gauloise
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Prescott slammed over housing plan water needs
A parliamentary inquiry into water management has concluded that the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister failed to properly consider how plans for building hundreds of thousands of new houses across the South-east would affect water supplies and sewage plants in the region.
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RIBA hopeful Phillips rejects isolationist jibe
RIBA presidential candidate Peter Phillips has strenuously denied claims on Ribanet he wants to end international membership of the institute if elected.
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Opinion
Join up, be heard
The government claims there aren't enough architects to execute its expanded building programme. Medium and large practices are struggling to recruit qualified staff while the profession includes an enormous number of very small practices battling to get work. My colleagues in small practices tell me they think there are too ...
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News
Housing revolution in Harlow
4,000 homeowners could herald new era in British development by commissioning their own architects
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NewsHammersmith office links old and new
Heber-Percy & Parker has received planning consent for its office scheme at 3 Sussex Place in Hammersmith, west London.
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Opinion
Global is good
The forthcoming election for the next president of the RIBA has raised the interesting issue of how the RIBA is perceived overseas. One candidate appears to suggest that overseas membership is detrimental to the RIBA.
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TechnicalFrench lessons
Elaine Knutt reports on a new school where door frames were cast directly into concrete walls
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News
Four in running for Manchester job
Bptw is among four practices shortlisted for a residential scheme next to the Gorton Monastery in east Manchester.
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Opinion
Excise urban trivia
I cannot agree with Cabe when it advocates that planners should be tougher about design quality with applicants for planning permission (News May 26).
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Prince's plea for Edinburgh
Prince Charles has issued an "impassioned plea" for Edinburgh's historic city centre to be protected against careless development.
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TechnicalI wish I'd done those... Doors and windows
Jason Turner on John Penn's Beach House in Suffolk
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News
Hadid designs for Dubai
Dubai is the latest part of the globe to fall under Zaha Hadid's spell after the architect won a competition to design three iconic towers in the city.