All Building Design articles in 03 June 2011 – Page 4
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News
Maritime Museum extension ready to open
The £35 million extension to the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, originally designed by CF Møller but completed by Purcell Miller Tritton, is set to open on July 14.
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Opinion
Pollen Street Social: What did you say?
Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu, architects for the conversion of Bow Street Magistrates Court into a boutique hotel, may find critics are harsher than they’re used to back home in Shanghai.
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Opinion
New museums offer an object lesson
Our focus now seems to be on museums rather than the exhibits on show inside
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Opinion
Off the hook: Wilton Music Hall
If anyone doubts that Wilton’s Music Hall is in real trouble after the Heritage Lottery Fund turned it down for a grant, Boots suggests giving them a call to hear the story from the horse’s mouth.
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Opinion
Education needs a total rethink
After a three-year degree, part I graduates are pretty much useless to most practices as anything other than cad operators (“Cost of studying architecture ’tops £88,000’”, bdonline May 26).
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Opinion
Potters Fields shows the dangers of privatisation
The privatisation of semi-judicial services, notably planning control, is problematic in several ways.
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Opinion
Don't overlook Croydon's past
Owen Hatherley invites readers to consider more seriously places which many people simply scorn (Urban Trawl May 20).
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Opinion
Should local councils reclaim ownership of the public realm?
Yes, says Anna Minton, the new report is a backwards step; while Crispin Kelly says shopping centres show the way forward.
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Opinion
Hail to the chiefs Reed and Obama
She may have less than three months of her presidency to run but there is no let up for RIBA’s Ruth Reed.
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Building Study
First look: Reiach & Hall given green light for Lanarkshire Maggie’s centre
Reiach & Hall Architects has secured planning permission for a new Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centre to be built at Monklands General Hospital in Lanarkshire, Scotland.
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Inspirations
Paul Monaghan’s inspiration: Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool
Paul Monaghan of AHMM tells how the boldness of Frederick Gibberd’s Catholic cathedral made a far-reaching impression
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Opinion
Broadgate was Coventry's heart
My grandparents lived in Coventry and in the 1950s and 1960s and I used to visit them.
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Features
A bridge too far for London
In light of the Potters Fields controversy, we remember John Simpson’s ambitious plans for its neighbouring site – London Bridge City – 20 years ago.
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Opinion
Broadband must be beautiful too
It is encouraging to see one major infrastructure provider in the form of National Grid working with the RIBA and DECC to improve the design of the electricity pylon (“Minister stresses role of design in energy plans”, News May 27 ). Isn’t it time BT’s Openreach and other broadband providers ...
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Opinion
Aussie minister gets on his bike
Rogers Stirk Harbour’s proposed Barangaroo development in Sydney has been described in the Sydney Morning Herald as resembling “the worst of Dubai”.
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Opinion
Architectural style icons
Richard Rogers has turned down the chance to be interviewed by online men’s fashion bible Mr Porter …
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News
Hawkins\Brown Stratford Regional Station unveiled
Station gearing up for 120,000 daily users during 2012 Olympic Games
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News
RIBA itinerary shows business skills focus
Architects will be given the chance to brush up on their business skills this autumn, after a report earlier this year said many were not savvy enough to survive.
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News
Minister accused of letting localism influence listings
Campaigners say Penrose’s decisions show evidence of local pressures