All Building Design articles in 03 October 2008 – Page 4
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News
Corb season takes off in Liverpool
The RIBA’s Le Corbusier season kicked off this week with the opening in Liverpool of Le Corbusier: the Art of Architecture exhibition in Edwin Lutyens’ crypt at the city’s Metropolitan Cathedral.
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Review
California dreaming
LA’s current John Lautner exhibition finds an integrity in his response to landscape, says Niall Hobhouse
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Features
Will recession bring revolution?
The changing economic climate could lead to greater political engagement among British architects
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News
M&S wins highest Breeam rating
3D Reid’s design for a Glasgow branch of Marks & Spencer has achieved the highest-ever Breeam retail fit-out rating.
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Opinion
Tie breaker
Both correspondents missed the point in their answers to the question of architecture and the old boys’ club (Debate September 26).
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News
Parliament Square paving bugged Boris
Plans to pedestrianise Parliament Square had already cost £2 million when London mayor Boris Johnson scrapped the scheme.
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News
Board restructuring defended
Arb chairman Mike Starling has defended proposed changes to the structure of Arb’s board (News September 28).
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News
Funding blow could cancel Castleford Forum plans
Niall McLaughlin Architects’ ambitious scheme for a new museum, library and community building in the West Yorkshire town of Castleford has been turned down for lottery funding for a second time.
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News
Who will get the wooden spoon in BD’s Carbuncle Cup this year?
BD’s Carbuncle Cup is to the Stirling Prize what the Razzies are to the Oscars. So while the RIBA searches for architecture’s most sublime, we uncover its most reviled. Here’s the 2008 shortlist chosen from your nominations
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Technical
Urban Initiatives remodels south London’s Aylesbury Estate
Urban Initiatives’ Kelvin Campbell has spent nearly two years masterplanning the £2.4 billion Aylesbury redevelopment. It’s the sixth such plan in ten years, so why is he confident it will succeed?
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Opinion
Was Boris wrong to axe the Parliament Square scheme?
Yes, says Lib Dem peer Sally Hamwee, the revamp of Trafalgar Square shows what could be done with Parliament Square; no, says mayoral adviser Kulveer Ranger, the Hawkins Brown-led scheme was too costly and would have been an act of heritage vandalism
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Features
Healey Associates' Mexican Wave
‘We have food from the region made by people in the office, music, and a few beers’
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News
Faint praise damns Architecture Week
Future of Architecture Week is questioned again in light of review
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News
Architects vulnerable to claims as economy slows
Architects have become a “natural target” for litigation by cash-strapped clients due to the worsening economic climate and rising professional indemnity insurance premiums, experts have claimed.
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Opinion
Arb inflation
The £8 rise in the Arb retention fee actually equates exactly to an inflation-indexed rise for each of the past three years, up from £76.50 in 2006 to £86 for 2009.
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News
Duggan Morris aims for brew of old and new at Sussex oast house
Plans for an unusual oast house conversion in an area of outstanding natural beauty have been unveiled by Duggan Morris Architects.
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News
Piersland adds bedroom pavilion
Lawrence McPherson Associates has received planning permission for a garden pavilion at Scottish country hotel Piersland House Hotel near Troon, Ayrshire.
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Opinion
Arb’s extra £8: worth it or not?
Can someone please tell me why it is worth my while remaining a member of Arb? With a 10% fee hike on the cards (News September 26), it reminds me of all the downsides to being a registered architect in this country.
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News
Liam O’Connor’s structure at the National Memorial Arboretum is 43m in diameter.
A major armed forces memorial at Alrewas, near Lichfield in Staffordshire, has been voted the UK’s favourite Lottery-funded heritage project.
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Features
Dot to dot results: September 26
Last week’s competition winner was Robert Wilkinson of Croydon, Surrey, who identified Creek Vean at Feock, Cornwall, by Team 4 and so receives a copy of Tadao Ando: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth by Philip Jodidio.