All Building Design articles in 02 November 2007 – Page 2
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News
Riverbank revelation
Fletcher Priest Architects has revealed the first images of its huge “urban quarter” scheme planned for the north bank of the Thames in central London.
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OpinionPimple watch
David Eccles (Letters October 19) suggests you maintain a pimple watch, looking out for buildings before they grow into a carbuncle.
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Oscar’s winner
RIBA conference star, the nearly 100-year-old Oscar Niemeyer (below), has decided it’s time to reveal details of his hugely successful career.
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Opinion
Maggie may...
Does Boots hear more wedding bells now that OMA partner Ole Scheeren and Chinese actress and martial arts bunny Maggie Cheung have been declared an item?
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Opinion
Loose lips
Few architects will risk a fallout with Design for London, as BD reports this week, but Will Alsop — who designed Palestra, DfL’s award-winning Southwark HQ— is one big name co-operating with the London Assembly’s inquiry into the body.
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NewsSquire & Partners remodels Lasdun
Squire & Partners has completed its refurbishment of the City of London’s Milton Gate, which was originally designed by Denys Lasdun and Peter Softley in the late 1980s.
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OpinionHousing solution
The Lewisham self-build project (Archive October 26) was, in fact, masterminded by Brian Richardson, who died recently.
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Golden oldies
In this era of extreme political correctness, equal opportunities, and health and safety measures that make it almost impossible to build anything, apparently it is still very difficult for archi-tects of around 60 years old to find jobs.
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Opinion
Giving some gyp
Elain Harwood’s review of the Churchill College design competition from half a century ago (Culture October 19) was a fascinating read, but I would like to clarify the meaning of the term “gyp” room.
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NewsRochester scheme’s gateway to a new world
This residential scheme by Alison Brooks Architects, Feilden Clegg Bradley and Maccreanor Lavington is one of four shortlisted for the first phase of Rochester Riverside, one of the most significant Thames Gateway schemes.
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OpinionWhy firms take the money and run
The most likely reason to sell a practice is a slowing market, so don’t believe all that other guff
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NewsGlittering display
Allies & Morrison has celebrated an incredible week after scooping the top award at last night’s BD Architect of the Year Awards and unveiling a new £25 million performing arts centre in Hemel Hempstead.
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OpinionSame place, different epic space-time...
This week Ian Martin’s multiverse channel hopper is stuck at 66 Portland Place
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News
Sustainable design panel set up to help planners
A panel focused on improving environmental sustainability has been set up to counter a “desperate” lack of skills among planners.
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OpinionIs secondary school design standardisation a good idea?
A range of set typologies frees the designer to focus on the bigger picture, says Stafford Critchlow. Do we really want a McSchool like a prefab fast-food outlet? argues David Hills
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FeaturesMacMillan raises his design profile
Date 1969Location St Andrews CollegeArchitect Andy MacMillanIn the week an exhibition of Gillespie Kidd & Coia’s work opens at the Lighthouse, BD found this photo of Andy MacMillan in front of the Notre Dame College of Education — now St Andrew’s College — in Dunbartonshire, which he helped design for ...
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Review
Oscar Niemeyer :The Curves of Time By Oscar Niemeyer.
New in paperback to mark the occasion of his 100th birthday, the first English-language edition of Niemeyer’s memoirs