All Building Design articles in 17 April 2015
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Opinion
This is what the planning system has become
Planning should be the ‘heart and soul’ of every council, according to Brandon Lewis. The reality, says architect and developer Crispin Kelly, is more about passing the buck
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News
Work on BDP masterplan starts
Work has started on a new £10 million Hub building being built at the Manchester Science Park under a masterplan by BDP. It is the first to be built under the initiative and is being put up to meet growing demand for space from the science and technology sectors. The ...
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Opinion
Housing is not just a numbers game
As Green Sky Thinking begins, founder Victoria Thornton urges the construction industry to keep sustainability on the agenda even if the government won’t
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News
Malcolm Fraser scheme to save Edinburgh landmark
City Observatory has been on Buildings at Risk Register for 12 years
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News
Accounting scam sees AA learn lessons
Group tightens up internal controls as it continues to look at getting degree awarding powers
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Opinion
Replication is never the right thing to do
As experts gather in Glasgow to discuss the future of the Mac, Alan Dunlop takes issue with Hank Dittmar’s case for restoration
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News
Allies & Morrison designs pop-up craft pavilion
Structure will be key feature of first London Craft Week
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News
LDA Design-led team poised for Olympic Park megaproject
Design team lined up for UCL East campus, part of Olympicopolis
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Review
Smiljan Radić’s pavilion is set free in Somerset meadow
Hauser Wirth’s architecture season explores the boundaries between architecture, sculpture and landscape. Alice Haugh is impressed
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News
Places Matter insists no conflict of interest in Liverpool design review
Broadway Malyan director ‘not involved in report on own scheme’
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News
Peabody promises to stick to design agenda
Housing trust, praised for architects it works with, pledges to keep with departing Claire Bennie’s formula
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Technical
BIM: Early adopters
Ramboll has developed an early stage modelling process that combines the qualitative capabilities of parametric design with BIM’s algorithmic, analytical strengths. Ike Ijeh wonders where this leaves designers
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News
Reiach and Hall archive job gets OK
Scheme for Nuclear Decommissioning Authority set for summer start
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News
'Mediocre' Broadway Malyan scheme damned by conservationists
Design review panel praises ‘exciting’ design for Liverpool’s gateway - but condemns ‘gratuitous piece of façade retention’