All Building Design articles in 03 August 2007 – Page 3
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News
Blears reopens inquiry into bridge
The proposed Thames Gateway bridge has been delayed once more after a public inquiry into the scheme was reopened by communities secretary Hazel Blears.
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ReviewTea takes the biscuit
Tea was introduced into Japan by a Zen priest in the 12th century, but it was not until the mid-16th century that the tea room became an established architectural form.
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FeaturesPoulson puts porridge behind him
Architect John Poulson leaves Lincoln prison in 1977 after serving three years of a seven-year sentence for corruption.
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NewsShock as Bath rejects Parry’s museum plan
An expert design panel, whose members include Richard MacCormac, has blamed Bath’s “hostile” traditionalists for the shock rejection of Eric Parry’s landmark extension to the city’s Holburne Museum of Art.
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NewsBath makes King visiting professor
Bath University has appointed Doug King as visiting professor of environmental design.
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OpinionWas Bath right to reject the Holburne Museum scheme?
It would have been a dilution of Bath’s historic environment, argues Stephen Marks, while Peter Clegg calls it an exemplary piece of sculpted architecture which would have improved on what it replaced
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Was Bath right to reject the Holburne Museum scheme?
DEBATE: Exemplary architecture or a threat to the historic fabric? OPINION: The planners, not the client, are to blame NEWS: Shock at Bath's rejection and our first news report
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SMC cuts cost base in bid for stability
Troubled architectural giant the SMC Group has announced that it has “significantly reduced” its cost base following an internal review which prompted the departure of 11 senior employees.
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The Dutch come to Barking
NEWS: KCAP and Maccreanor Lavington selected for first phase of Thames GatewayFACTBOX: Briefing on KCAP
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Hain calls autumn safety summit
Work and pensions secretary Peter Hain has announced a construction summit in the autumn, bringing together key industry figures to find ways of reducing industry fatalities.
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OpinionWork together to save at-risk sites
The latest edition of English Heritage’s Register of Buildings at Risk and BD’s report last week have focused attention on the vast number of listed buildings across the country requiring remedial action, and the £400 million needed to bring them into a reasonable state of repair or reuse.
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Building StudyIn Detail: North Wall Arts Centre, Oxford
Architect Haworth TompkinsStructural engineer Price & MyersGlazing subcontractor Fineline AluminiumA Victorian swimming pool has been converted for use as a theatre in the grounds of a school in Oxford. A foyer, gallery, drama studio and dance studio are housed in an adjacent new two-storey building.The new building sits on concrete ...
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NewsPlymouth University's new arts complex
The £36 million Roland Levinsky building by BDP and Henning Larsen Architects opens its doors next month
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NewsPlymouth shows an art for mixing it
Henning Larsen Architects’ £36 million arts complex for the University of Plymouth is about to open its doors.
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Opinion
Suckers at Arb
Those clever people at Arb have found that the imaginative use of confectionary is the perfect way to hush its quarrelsome board members.
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FeaturesI’m pregnant – when do I have to tell my employer, and what am I entitled to?
I work for a small architect’s practice and have just discovered I am pregnant. I know I will be entitled to maternity leave. When do I have to tell my employer, and what is it that I am actually entitled to?
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NewsAll single-room hospital on course
The first major public hospital in the UK to give every patient their own room — a £200 million PFI scheme by Anshen & Allen — has been submitted for planning.
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Capita aiming for Stirling shortlist
Listed firm Capita Symonds is to merge its three architecture practices and rebrand them collectively as Capita Architecture.
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NewsMammoth museum goes back to the ice age
New York practice Leeser Architecture has beaten competition from architects including Massimiliano Fuksas and Antoine Predock to design the World Mammoth and Permafrost Museum in central Siberia.
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