All Building Design articles in 01 December 2006
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OpinionUrban urgency
Your report on the postponement of our conference Society, Architects and Emerging Issues (News November 24) did not mention the new dates for the event which are March 17 to 21, 2007.
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Opinion
Small risk
Your leader last week highlighted how very tiny a risk is presented to clients by small practices and sole architects with a low turnover.
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Opinion
Reform’s school
Jee Eun Lee and John Assael (Letters November 24) have every right to be incensed at the cost of the Arb assessment process; £2,400 for a process directly comparable to that which the RIBA administers for £250 simply cannot be justified.
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Opinion
Can RIBA redress?
The RIBA has been considering issues of consumer protection over the past year and how clients like Mr and Mrs Shaw (News analysis November 24) could best be served.
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ReviewMomentary lapse
Birmingham architecture from the sixties and seventies is the unlikely inspiration for an exhibition of digital time-lapse photography by artist Perry Roberts.
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News
Tees Valley says yes to Marge Simpson’s hair
A flagship development near Middlesbrough by architects including Will Alsop, Grimshaw, Feilden Clegg Bradley and Studio Egret West will go ahead after terms were agreed with developer BioRegional Quintain.
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FeaturesGuilty pleasures
As Erick van Egeraat puts the final touches to his first UK building, Middlesbrough’s new Art Gallery, he talks to Zoë Blackler about guilt, the Gateway and a life in hotel rooms.
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ReviewGot a new motor?
Rob Voerman’s Annex#4 is half car, half cabin and typical of the Dutch artist’s preoccupation with social order.
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NewsYoung firms lined up for Liverpool housing
Urban Splash has assembled a crack team of young practices for a trailblazing housing scheme in south central Liverpool.
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Opinion
A good news week for Olympic design
Just when things were looking chronically bleak for those charged with delivering the London Olympics, this week has good news not just for architects, but for anyone who was worried the games would be a missed opportunity for the UK’s talented pool of designers.
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News‘Design is at the heart of what we are doing here’
Ricky Burdett is to become design adviser to the London Olympics after mounting critcism that the design of the 2012 games is being handed to contractors.
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News
Government slashes density requirements
The government has scrapped its plans to force local authorities to build to densities of up to 70 dwellings per ha, it was announced this week.
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Opinion
Learning curve
Your report on earn-and-learn in architectural education (News November 24) omitted to say that the project is led by Schosa (Standing Conference of Heads of Schools of Architecture), is based at the Centre for Excellence in Professional Learning from the Workplace within the University of Westminster, and is partnered by ...
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Opinion
Insurance should rest with the client
Your articles last week (News and News analysis) expose the fault line in the business of insurance in the building industry.
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News
Ken fumes at climate change underestimate
All the climate change predictions for London to date have been wrong, mayor Ken Livingstone revealed at last week’s Thames Gateway Forum.
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Carbon neutral homes for Prince’s Poundbury
Prince Charles has handpicked an architectural practice to design a carbon-neutral extension to his flagship Poundbury development in Dorchester.
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OpinionWhy UK housing can’t just go Dutch
In creating South-east England’s growth areas to boost housing supply, the Department for Communities & Local Government, and previously the ODPM, encouraged the UK building industry to look to modern methods of construction and procurement. Within this, the Netherlands was cited as a precedent.