All Building Design articles in 01 May 2009 – Page 3
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Opinion
Sinking feeling
I recall my father talking of the holiday camp at Skegness (Archive April 24), where he trained as a wireless operator during World War II, the place having been taken over by the navy and renamed HMS Royal Arthur.
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OpinionDon’t scapegoat women
Women are particularly vulnerable in the downturn, so the profession needs to be extra vigilant that they are fairly treated
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Opinion
Hang democracy
The calls from the Prince of Wales and the Traditional Architecture Group for more democracy in the planning system are nothing more than cynical opportunism.
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Opinion
Correction: Woodberry Down estate
Last week’s front page lead story said that London’s Woodberry Down estate was being redeveloped by architects including Shepheard Epstein Hunter, Ian Ritchie and Wilkinson Eyre.
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OpinionA painless guide to torture chambers
A CIA memo has some handy hints on everything from insect cages to water boarding
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OpinionRogers’ Pompidou Centre gets French fried in new poll
Prince Charles’ views on modern architecture have been echoed by the good citizens of Paris who, according to a poll in Le Figaro this week, hate modern buildings, especially towers, and have voted on which ones they’d like to see demolished.
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ReviewWellcome Collection show unlocks the history of the insane asylum
Changing attitudes led to the transformation of mental health treatment environments in Vienna at the end of the 19th century
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FeaturesNord’s Alan Pert rediscovers Scotland’s Crichton Castle
Alan Pert reveals how a visit to Crichton Castle as a boy has been an influence on his most recent building — an electricity substation for the London Olympics
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ReviewArchitecture meets agriculture in Building Centre show on urban farming
London Yields exhibition betrays the shortcomings in thinking about food and the city
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ReviewA modern way to think about the modernists
In an excerpt from his new book, Militant Modernism, Owen Hatherley challenges architects to embrace the progressive social impulse of Lubetkin, Lasdun and the Smithsons instead of the grotesque corporate or signature architecture that dominates the urban landscape
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FeaturesDot to dot result: April 24
The winner of last week’s competition was Kate Foley of MBP Architects in Surrey, who identified Denys Lasdun’s National Theatre in London.
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ReviewMilan Furniture Fair 2009: Soft options for hard times
As the full force of the recession hits, there was talk in Milan of sustainable fabrics and multi-purpose designs, but plenty of bling still lingers in the furniture showrooms
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