All Building Design articles in 03 August 2007 – Page 2
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NewsSite work starts on luxury ski village
Developer Capital Partners has begun construction of HOK’s masterplan for a ski village in the Kazakhstan mountains.
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TechnicalTonkin Liu’s Singing Ringing Tree puts panpipes into park panorama
Singing Ringing Tree, the RIBA award-winning public art scheme in the Pennines by architect Tonkin Liu, posed a number of tricky challenges, not least of which was getting the sculpture to live up to its name and make a sound. With a little help from engineer Jane Wernick Associates, it ...
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Building StudyHaworth Tompkins’ school theatre is a scene stealer
An innovative performance complex for St Edward’s School, Oxford, is designed to serve both the school and surrounding community.
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NewsGovernment sets industry targets
The construction industry has been set targets to improve its sustainability.
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OpinionFamily favourites
A pat on the back to Rogers Stirk Harbour, which found itself in top place in a survey of family-friendly architecture and construction firms in the Guardian this week.
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OpinionLast night’s TV: the Ignorance Factor
Germaine Greer’s housing ‘solution’ for Cambridge just displays her ignorance. Has she no shame?
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OpinionPassionate designs are ravishing, ladies
Kevin McLouche takes us on a whistle-stop tour of the RIPBA’s Gurning Prize shortlist TV personality
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NewsDesign lessons: shortlisted schemes for Southwark primary schools
An RIBA competition for Southwark Council encouraged architects to talk to the staff and pupils of the three primary schools being upgraded
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Stadium design row gets political
The Tories have waded into the row over designs for the Olympic stadium, accusing minister Tessa Jowell of using it as a political football.
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Foster’s sponsors young delegates
Foster & Partners will sponsor 50 places for young architects and students at this year’s RIBA conference in an attempt to even out the age profile of delegates.
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Opinion
What crisis?
The London Olympic stadium might be running late but that hasn’t been enough to keep its architect HOK Sport’s designers Rod Sheard and Peter Cook in the country.
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ODA takes control of Olympic site
The London Development Agency last week handed over the Olympic Park site to the Olympic Delivery Authority, marking the “five years to go” point in the build-up to the 2012 games.
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OpinionClients are not the problem
As long as our planning system rejects schemes like Bath’s Holburne design, the UK’s role in the Stirling Prize will diminish
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ReviewFather of the chapel
This long-awaited biography finally brings Pugin to life — and reveals a complex and colourful figure who has shaped views of our heritage.
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Opinion
Celebrity square
You might not put David Adjaye in the same company as singer Charlotte Church or TV presenter Lorraine Kelly, but Boots was amused to discover they were all wined and dined by former PM Tony Blair.
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Cabe wants towers to exceed eco rules
Tall buildings are expected to exceed all current sustainability guidelines under new rules drawn up by Cabe and English Heritage.
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Building of discovery centre starts
Work has begun on the RSPB’s £7 million international nature reserve at Saltholme in Teesside, including a wild bird discovery centre by Jane Darbyshire and David Kendall of Newcastle practice JDDK.
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Opinion
Brits flooding in
Amid an invasion of Dutch architects working on the Thames Gateway, Boots was delighted to hear it’s not all one-way traffic.
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NewsThreat to views delays Oxford book depository
Plans for a £29 million building for the University of Oxford by Scott Brownrigg have been delayed amid fears it would increase flooding and threaten views of the city’s famous dreaming spires.
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