All Building Design articles in 02 November 2007 – Page 3
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News
Eight firms shortlisted for King’s Cross housing
Eight practices including DRMM, Munkenbeck & Marshall, Panter Hudspith and Feilden Clegg Bradley have been shortlisted by developer Argent for the first residential schemes in the £2 billion regeneration of King’s Cross.
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OpinionOverrruns that harm credibility
As long ago as January 2005, I was wondering whether the winning design for the Architecture Foundation headquarters would be built to time and budget, and how much of the enclosed space, made up of angled walls running in all directions, would be useable.
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Green council to redefine ‘offsite’
Revisions to the Code for Sustainable Homes which ban the use of offsite renewables for new homes have come under fire from the Green Building Council.
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Moxon triumphs in Preston competition
Moxon Architects has won an RIBA competition to design a £6 million landmark office building in Preston, Lancashire.
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Gillespie Kidd & Coia show opens at the Lighthouse
IMAGES: Selected works in the Lighthouse retrospective REVIEW: Show gives MacMillan and Metzstein their rightful place in history VIDEO: Watch clips from two films in the show
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Opinion
Culture club
Femi Adebutu (Letters October 19) hits the spot when she says if the City of Culture 2008 is to mean something in Liverpool, key decisionmakers need to turn their eyes away from the city centre and focus on the inner city.
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MultimediaFilm clips: Gillespie Kidd & Coia
A major retrospective of the work of Gillespie Kidd & Coia, which opens at Glasgow's Lighthouse this week, features two films about Andy MacMillan and Isi Metzstein.
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ReviewPeter Zumthor exhibition presents a reality check
The main lesson of this show is that with Zumthor, nothing matches the real thing, says Tim Wolfe-Murray
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NewsSite change for Pompey stadium
Herzog & de Meuron’s proposed 36,000-seat stadium for Portsmouth FC (pictured) is to move after the Royal Navy expressed “operational and security concerns” over plans to build it near a naval base set to be home to two new aircraft carriers.
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Use cemeteries as parks, says Cabe
Graveyards should be replanned and redesigned to have a dual function as parks attractive to the general public, according to Cabe, which has described them as a “huge untapped resource”.
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Review
The Buildings of Elizabethan and Jacobean England by Maurice Howard.
Howard reveals that changes of style in architecture emerged from the practical needs of construction and the self-image of major patrons in the revolutionary century between Reformation and Civil War.
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ReviewBritain’s Lost Cities By Gavin Stamp
Comprehensive book about Britain’s lost urban heritage with images of streets and buildings destroyed by bombing or planned demolition.
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ReviewBritain's Lost Cities by Gavin Stamp
Comprehensive book about Britain's lost urban heritage with images of streets and buildings destroyed by bombing or planned demolition.
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News
EU body defends local rights
Local communities should have a more prominent role in planning, according to a report out this week.
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NewsBoathouse goes on site
Feilden & Mawson has gone on site with this mixed-use building which it hopes will become the focal point of the £40 million redevelopment of Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.
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TechnicalElephant & Castle turbines are blowing in the wind
Could wind really power our urban environments? With today’s emphasis on sustainability, Southwark Council is blazing a trail, testing turbines on an Elephant & Castle tower block.
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NewsNo competition for Birmingham library
Birmingham’s design strategy has come under renewed fire after the city council admitted it would not hold an international competition for its new £190 million library.
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OpinionBetter space still needs design
New space standards are welcome, but they should not be a substitute for good design
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Building StudyMoneo’s Prado extension hedges its bets
In the week the Madrid Prado gallery’s long-awaited extension opens, Ellis Woodman speaks to its architect Rafael Moneo about the project