All Building Design articles in 10 December 2004
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NewsToilet trouble
French designer Philippe Starck has picked up some of the English potty humour since moving to the UK last year.
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Opinion
Single solution
Your article asks “Can design beat the bugs?” (News Analysis November 26). Design can do some of the job, but it needs a multidisciplinary approach.
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Opinion
Share and survive
The Cambridge School of Architecture must be saved, but, once again, architects are their own worst enemy.
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Opinion
Modern royal
Before Prince Charles begins attacking modern methods of construction (News November 26) he may like to consider that Poundbury could not exist without them.
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Technical
Technicalities: Lighten up
“Space, light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.” — Le Corbusier
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Review
It’s a wrap!
Think architecture, eat architecture, play architecture? We round up some architecturally inspired Christmas presents
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NewsSpotcheck: Northern Ireland
Belfast push The first major assessment of development opportunities in Belfast for nearly 20 years was launched last week. The Belfast Metropolitan Plan, which is now on display at the Royal Society of Ulster Architects’ new architecture centre, Place, outlines proposals for 63,000 new homes by 2015, commercial centres and ...
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NewsHadids marvel of Marseille
Zaha Hadid has won a commission to design her first major corporate headquarters. Hadid will design a 100m-high office tower for shipping company CMA-CGM in Marseille, France. The project was developed in conjunction with Marseille urban renewal agency Euromediterrane and is the first time the agency has worked with a ...
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FeaturesTaking out the guesswork
Can computer programs bring scientific rationality to design solutions?
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NewsInside the Great Glass Grub
Foster & Partners’ Sage Gateshead music centre, dubbed the “Great Glass Grub”, opens next weekend.The £70 million Tyneside music centre features this main concourse overlooking the river Tyne, surrounded by a 100m-long ribbon of coloured glass designed by artist Kate Maestri. The Sage Gateshead, which is the first performing arts ...
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Opinion
A slap in the face
Tips that will enable us to run our businesses more profitably are very welcome and useful.
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Opinion
Europe shows that White wont
With architecture already infamous for its poorly paid, long-hours culture, I was interested to read that a reason we make insufficient profit (“Lessons in lucre” November 26) lies with us not working long enough hours.
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FeaturesDisposable heroes
The judges of the seventh BD /Zumtobel Staff annual photo competition faced a mammoth task to choose between more than 7,000 photos entered this year by BD readers. Sponsored by Zumtobel staff
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News
MJP loses three key directors
Boardroom changes at MacCormac Jamieson Prichard (MJP) will see three of its most senior staff leave the practice in the new year.
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Opinion
Core of the matter
Further to my participation in your management article last week, I write to clarify a quote that was used to support a viewpoint to which I am wholly opposed.
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NewsSalvation complete
A new headquarters for the Salvation Army in London’s Queen Victoria Street designed by Sheppard Robson has been completed. The 36,770sq m scheme, between St Paul’s Cathedral and the Millennium Bridge, also includes a £31 million speculative office development next door. Sheppard Robson worked with structural engineer Arup on the ...
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TechnicalTrue colours
LEDs were invented in 1962, but we are just starting to understand their magic