All Building Design articles in BD Magazine - Public Buildings - October 2006
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FeaturesThe speed read
The speed read: David Adjaye, Making Public Buildings, edited by Peter Allison, Thames & Hudson, 2006, £18.95
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FeaturesPublic spirits
Since being named a double winner at last year’s BD Architect of the Year Awards, Bennetts Associates has been busy with public building projects for Hampshire council and the redevelopment of the RSC in Stratford Words Elaine Knutt Photographs Morley von Sternberg
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FeaturesThe Olympics sparked
When we looked at the Olympic project the stadium, the Olympic Village, the training and performance venues we realised that there needs to be a consistent security system between them all. It would make sense if one company could supply all the doorsets, including the frames, the handles ...
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FeaturesRIBA turns to reality TV with Living Landmarks
Science Museum’s Swindon Centre by William McDonough & Partners.
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FeaturesLoyd Grossman
‘We have a legacy of fabulous work in Liverpool' says the chairman of Liverpool's national museum's trust
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FeaturesShoot for the gold
Most architects’ dreams of an Olympic gold commission are fading, but the Office of Subversive Architecture has sidestepped the ODA and awarded itself an Olympic project of its own.
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FeaturesRecycling goes underground
Did you know that the 15,000sq m of glossy black and white tiles used in the refurbishment of London’s Oxford Circus tube station are in fact a reincarnation of the old tiles, removed after 25 years’ service?
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FeaturesRecycling goes underground
Did you know that the 15,000sq m of glossy black and white tiles used in the refurbishment of London’s Oxford Circus tube station are in fact a reincarnation of the old tiles, removed after 25 years’ service?
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Features
The numbers game
£80 million is available to libraries in England and Wales to transform their buildings into modern communication hubs.
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FeaturesWhy do we create grand spaces
I am, not surprisingly, interested in the design of public buildings, sitting as I do in an office in the National Gallery overlooking the new public space of Trafalgar Square now transformed from a torrent of double-decker buses into an open, more continental plaza.
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FeaturesNational Maritime Museum Cornwall, Long and Kentish
Four years on, Rolfe Kentish of Long & Kentish returns to Cornwall’s National Maritime Museum to see whether everything is shipshape
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FeaturesBreathing room
The Civic Museum in Galway, designed by architects from Ireland’s Office of Public Works, is hiding a secret under its facade.
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Features
Only the best will keep the public coming back
Modern life is full of paradoxes. On the one hand, tech-nology allows us to build our own private virtual worlds based on textmates, downloads and myspace.com.
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FeaturesHampstead Theatre, Bennetts Associates
Bennetts Associates director Simon Erridge critiques how the Hampstead Theatre has performed since opening night three years ago
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Building StudyRoyal Court, Guernsey by Nicholas Hare Architects
At Guernsey’s new Royal Court complex, the majesty of the law is given a commanding hill-top position and a contemporary welcoming feel
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FeaturesArchitect’s answer to plug-in i(nfo)pod
We’re now all used to iPods, but could the JMArchitects’ pod also become a familiar sight on our streets?