All Building Design articles in 03 October 2008 – Page 3
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News
The Modern House moves into lettings
Estate agent the Modern House, which specialises in the sale of 20th century homes, has launched a new rental service in the face of the country’s dramatic housing slowdown.
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Building Study
If paradise is half as nice
The long awaited retail project at Paradise Street is a last-ditch attempt to recharge Liverpool’s city centre through a masterplan that pulls together 22 different architects. And it works, says Ellis Woodman
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Review
Unbuilt greats
Unrealised designs by leading architects for projects in London are on show at the AA.
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Opinion
Going west
Never let it be said that shadow culture minister Ed Vaizey is afraid of upsetting developers.
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News
Luxury homes go underground
Thomas de Cruz Architects has won planning permission for two 500sq m houses in west London.
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News
Move to get rid of student ghettos
The government has called for new planning mechanisms to tackle the overconcentration of student housing in neighbourhoods.
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Review
Past, present and future
Anthony Vidler plots the influence of four architectural historians on their time, says Thomas Muirhead
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Opinion
Waste free
It is right to raise the retention fee increase as a matter of concern but wrong to suggest that Arb is on a spending spree.
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Opinion
Join the transition from fear to hope
As peak oil and climate change threaten our way of life, transition towns look to the future
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Opinion
It's in the fabric
Renzo Piano’s San Francisco California Academy of Sciences has given a new meaning to rooting design in the environment.
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News
Land extension shortlist revealed
Norman Foster and Daniel Libeskind are in the lead to win an £8 billion project to extend Monaco out to sea.
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Review
Essence of Ritchie
Poetry, drawings, photography, models, components, materials and books capture the essence of 20 international projects by Ian Ritchie Architects.
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News
Findlay returns with eco-houses scheme
Kathryn Findlay has returned to practice after three years’ sabbatical, with this residential project in Preston, Lancashire.
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News
Three on Ebbsfleet Landmark list
Three artists — Daniel Buren, Richard Deacon and Mark Wallinger — have been shortlisted to create the £2 million Ebbsfleet Landmark, the largest public art commission since Antony Gormley’s Angel of the North.
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Opinion
Hodge dodge
Does Margaret Hodge’s desire to stand down from government mean a reprieve for Robin Hood Gardens?
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Features
Lipton takes his development to the top
In the 1980s building boom, developer Stuart Lipton was king, and Thatcher was his queen
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News
Top names rally to save Seaton Delaval
A roll call of some of Britain’s leading modern architects — from Terry Farrell and Peter Cook to Will Alsop — have backed a National Trust campaign to buy one of John Vanbrugh’s most renowned buildings for public use.
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Opinion
Salad days
A phone call to Terry Farrell’s office sparked a trip down memory lane for the architect.
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Features
How do I resolve this impasse over extra costs and delays?
As the architect on an office extension I am administering a JCT Minor Works Contract for the client.