All Building Design articles in 03 July 2009 – Page 3
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Opinion
RIBA should look in, not out
The institute must decide whether its priority is empire-building or serving the needs of ordinary architects
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Opinion
Love Liverpool
Barbara Follett must have had her mind on something else when she opined that “Liverpool was something of a culture-free zone before the European Capital of Culture 2008” (Boots June 19)
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Opinion
Hang on in there
I graduated with my part II in 1991 during the last recession and after a desperate couple of years of unemployment found work as a cleaner in order to support my family and regain some dignity
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Opinion
Outside edge
I was delighted to read about excluded student Aaron Collins going on to win a place on Kingston’s architecture degree course and then a major national award (News June 26)
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Opinion
Olympics dissidents recant on video
Are the Beijing apparatchiks still pulling the Olympic strings? Boots wonders after a bevy of architectural bigwigs critical of Olympic design were frogmarched around the site last week and then allowed to repent for their dissident views by recording gushing messages for a London 2012 online video.
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Opinion
Democracy myth
At the risk of prolonging the saga, I feel I have to respond to Stuart Heaton (Letters June 26)
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Opinion
Crying out for local nourishment
New problems for dairy farmers highlight our failure to recognise the value of local economies
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Opinion
Engineering is the real cost
If good architects are appointed early enough and can develop new station concepts with clever engineers, then there is always additional “value” in the design and very often significant cost savings
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Building Study
dRMM’s Clapham Manor Primary extension, London
De Rijke Marsh Morgan’s striking addition to the 19th century Clapham Manor Primary school exemplifies the practice’s love of a technological solution
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Opinion
Bury disinterred
Martin O’Shea’s reassurance (Letters June 26) that plants will grow all over the new Studio MGM building in Bury St Edmunds brings to mind that old dictum of Frank Lloyd Wright: “Doctors can bury their mistakes. Architects can only plant vines”
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Review
Student shows: Oxford Brookes School of the Built Environment
Sustainability concerns underpin much of the work, but the school still fosters individuality
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Opinion
Does Crossrail have low design aspirations?
No, says Crossrail’s chairman Terry Morgan, we want to create a world-class railway; while Kenneth Powell argues that the scheme will suffer from lack of an architectural vision
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Review
Student shows: London Metropolitan School of Architecture
Architecture students at London Met have struck a good balance between creativity and practicality
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Review
Student shows: Canterbury School of Architecture
Canterbury students’ innovative and far-reaching approach to regeneration is impressive
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Review
Student shows: Kingston School of Architecture
It’s too early to tell how head of school Daniel Rosbottom’s new regime is bedding in, but change is definitely in the air
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Inspirations
Peter Barber visits Alvaro Siza’s Faculty of Architecture in Porto
Alvaro Siza’s University of Porto buildings triggered a transformation in Peter Barber’s ideas about architecture
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Opinion
Gothic is still alive — just
Will the addition to Westminster Abbey be a seamless part of the original fabric or a kitsch, whimsical flourish? Perhaps the last of the goths should lend a hand
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Features
Dot to dot results: June 26
The winner of last week’s competition was Denisa Whiteson of John Thompson & Partners in London, who identified the British Library by Colin St John Wilson
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