All Building Design articles in 01 April 2011 – Page 4
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Building Study
First look: Harrap and Fobert redraw the Bloomsbury Group’s retreat
Julian Harrap Architects and Jamie Fobert Architects working in partnership have secured planning permission for the redevelopment of the barns at Charleston Farmhouse, the historic country retreat of the Bloomsbury Group in East Sussex.
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Opinion
Get behind your local centre
As a practising architect based in the North-east region and a board member of Northern Architecture, the architecture centre for the North-east, I wish to urge practices across the country to support their local architecture centres, which are facing challenges with the demise of their Cabe funding (News March 18).
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Features
Out of time: Amanda Levete
In 1985 the youthful architect made her first appearance in the pages of BD.
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Opinion
Gold’s not all that glitters in the Gulf
Middle Eastern cities have more in common with UK metropolises than first meets the eye
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Opinion
Is the RIBA’s action on low pay tough enough?
Insisting students are paid minimum wage is an important marker of change says RIBA president Ruth Reed; while Keith Tomlinson says the institute should have gone further
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News
RIBA silent over claims Reed tried to oust Rich
The RIBA has told board members to stay silent on allegations that its president Ruth Reed failed in a bid to have chief executive Harry Rich removed from his post.Reports claim the move was made at board meeting earlier this year but the attempt fell through after Reed only received ...
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News
Architecture centres lose Arts Council funding
Four losers and three winners as funding cuts announced
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News
Listing hopes dashed for Redcar Library
Architecture minister John Penrose has ignored advice from English Heritage and refused listing for ABK’s Redcar Central Library paving the way for the 1970s building to be torn down.
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Features
Life Class: Sean Griffiths
Fat’s director and co-founder shares some of his likes and pet hates.
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Inspirations
Rab and Denise Bennetts' inspiration: St Catherine’s College
Rab and Denise Bennetts explain how a visit to Oxford’s St Catherine’s College as students led them to set up their own achitecture course
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News
Malcolm Fraser named new chair of Scottish housing award
Decision announced as call for entries opens
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News
Dixon Jones and Rick Mather on Oxford college shortlist
Dixon Jones and Rick Mather Architects are on a six-strong shortlist for a competition to design a new lecture theatre and kitchen for Worcester College in Oxford.Wright & Wright Architects, Burd Haward Architects and 6a Architects also made the shortlist, selected from 104 expressions of interest. Irish practice O’Donnell & ...
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Review
The Natural Order of Things: Marcelo Cidade and Andre Komatsu
Industrial materials emphasise a dystopian view of society
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Multimedia
Video special: Pritker Prize winner Eduardo Souto de Moura
This year’s Pritzker announcement may have taken those who have never heard of Souto de Moura by surprise, so here’s a quick video guide to two of his most recent projects and a glimpse at his failed competition bid for the M9 museum in Mestre, Italy.
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News
Chelsea Barracks chapel gets Grade II listing
Status granted based on new evidence from English Heritage
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News
Buildings 'should display energy ratings'
The UK Green Building Council has said all non-residential buildings should have their A-G energy rating on public display to encourage landlords to bring up to scratch those premises lagging behind.The ratings would provide an at-a-glance indicator and detailed technical information on the energy performance of a building, it said.The ...
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Building Study
Galenkop building by Wingender Hovenier
A mixed-use scheme in Amsterdam articulates Wingender Hovenier’s ongoing research into the tectonic manifestation of brick.
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News
Coop Himmelb(l)au designs Albanian parliament
Vienna-based architecture studio Coop Himmelb(l)au has unveiled images of a new parliament building - called Open Parliament - for Albania’s capital, Tirana.The building, which sits on a 28,000sq m site, consists of a parliamentary hall located in a glazed cone, an office block and an entrance structure.There is also a ...
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News
Adam's Warrington country house approved
Robert Adam’s practice Adam Architecture has won planning for a new country house in Cheshire.Called Massey Hall, the 2,700sq m design on the eastern edge of Warrington will replace a disused 19th century house, while Manchester firm Barnes Walker will restore the house’s surrounding parkland which was designed by Victorian ...