All Building Design articles in 01 April 2011 – Page 3
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OpinionRelying on cheap labour
If the profession is to persuade society of its worth, it needs to get out of the low-pay habit
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NewsRIBA pledges to kick out wage abuse firms
Brady promises to ’go after’ practices that fail to pay students at least minimum wage
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NewsDesign review process comes under scrutiny
Former London Development Agency design director Peter Bishop is examining the way Cabe carries out design reviews as its new parent looks to make the design watchdog self-financing.
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NewsArchitects must win bim race, warns Reed
Architects are in a race with contractors to harness the enormous potential of building information modelling (bim).
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NewsChipperfield's Margate gallery set for launch
David Chipperfield’s £17.5 million Turner Contemporary gallery in Margate opens this month, five years after the original scheme by Snøhetta and Spence Associates was cancelled amid spiralling costs and technical problems.
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NewsZogolovitch not backing down over RIBA Trust
Roger Zogolovitch has refused to withdraw his demand for a special general meeting on the future of the RIBA Trust
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NewsCardigan Castle wins lottery cash
Purcell Miller Tritton’s scheme to build a new heritage centre and carry out repairs at Cardigan Castle is one of the beneficiaries of £10 million handed out by the Heritage Lottery Fund to help three major restoration and education projects linked to the arts in England and Wales.
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Architects Plus wins yacht club
Carlisle firm Architects Plus has won the competition to design a new clubhouse (pictured) for Ullswater Yacht Club near Penrith in Cumbria.
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OpinionSchool rules
It is interesting that Oliver Wainwright has chosen to bring Catmose Campus into the debate on the role of standardisation in schools design (Buildings March 25).
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Opinion
Sounds as a pound
Despite dismissing accusations of “Legoland” homes (Letters March 25), John Slaughter of the Home Builders Federation must surely accept that hundreds of new housing developments look like Poundbury on a bad hair day.
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Opinion
Global education
In our experience, registration boards are the main obstacle to realising any significant global portability for architectural qualifications (Letters March 18)
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Opinion
Righting the copy
It was I, not AHMM, who took issue with Matthew Darbyshire’s unlawful use of my photographs (Boots March 25), as I would with any other commercial organisation attempting to profit from an unpaid use of copyright material.
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OpinionMadge on the cadge
The mother of all PR operations kicked into gear last week as Madonna explained to the world why she would not be proceeding with the construction of an elite academy for girls in Malawi.
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TechnicalSteel cable technology gets Salford in the swing
The Media City footbridge designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects over the Manchester Ship Canal at Salford uses steel to create a structure that is both functional and visually appealing.
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OpinionCrummy Brum
The situation in Birmingham is a fiasco (“Mecanoo’s library is disgraceful, says Madin” News March 25). The council don’t know what they’re doing and the fine citizens couldn’t care less what gets torn down and what gets thrown up in its place – a tragic vignette of what’s happened to ...