All Building Design articles in 04 May 2007 – Page 3
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TechnicalFresh from the depths
The might of Victorian engineering has been harnessed for 21st century sustainability
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NewsStand up and be counted
Does the Victorian Society’s boiler-suited protest this week mark a change in tactics for the conservation movement?
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NewsDouglas to head Housing Corp
Steve Douglas has been appointed acting chief executive of the Housing Corporation.
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FeaturesOur draughtsman is not up to the job and has no contract: can I just give him notice?
I own a small architect’s practice which I took over from my father. We still employ a draughtsman who started working here when my dad was in charge. He is not really up to the job and I think it is in the firm’s interest to get rid of him. ...
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OpinionEmpty ritual of the consultation show
Community involvement exercises are the most effective way to ignore the locals
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Constructing Excellence swells
Best practice organisation Constructing Excellence has been joined by 25 new members, including retail property group Westfield and multidisciplinary giant Terence O’Rourke, since December last year.
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NewsExperts slam wasteful housing competitions
Thousands of days worth of work by British architects is being squandered under the government’s massive housebuilding drive, Britain’s largest housing practice claims.
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NewsClapham keeps context
Planning has been granted for ESA Architecture’s new office development in Clapham, south London. The £4 million building will be used as the head-quarters of a housing trust.
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NewsZumthor chapel is in a field of its own
This month sees the long-awaited completion of the Peter Zumthor-designed Bruder Klaus field chapel.
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Opinion
Making changes
Architects for Change, the RIBA’s equality and diversity forum, has achieved a huge amount since its foundation in 2000, including the publication of an employment guide for architects, instigating returners’ courses for architects after career breaks (women and men), and curating the ongoing global DiverseCity exhibition celebrating the work of ...
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NewsNew centre for Snowdon
Work has begun on site on the highest building in the UK — a new visitor centre at the top of Mount Snowdon.
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NewsCabe embraces Middlehaven plan
Cabe has welcomed the masterplan for the Middlehaven development in Middlesbrough — designed by Studio Egret West — praising the project’s “brave and exciting” approach to masterplanning. But it warns that the risks inherent with such an approach must be managed carefully.
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OpinionBlair’s legacy is the red tape
Despite positive architectural initiatives, housing has been the PM’s greatest failing
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Opinion
Beat class guilt
In a country where streets are used as an open rubbish bin, anything — be it the mayor’s 100 public spaces or the people’s 1,000 markets — is surely a step forward.
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News
Bats getting a raw deal
The Bat Conservation Trust (BCT) has warned that too little is being done to protect the creatures from the damage done to their roosts during building and development work.
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FeaturesSquire & Partners calls time at the bar
‘We bought a derelict warehouse and turned it into our own bar and restaurant’
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UN backs low-energy buildings
The UN is to outline plans for futuristic, low-energy buildings in a new study on global warming.
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OpinionHas the Blair decade been good for architecture?
Ken Shuttleworth argues that the government has raised architecture’s profile as a vital tool, while Jonathan Glancey says we have seen a glut of crass buildings
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Building StudyAnother world
An extension to Bath’s Holburne Museum, as well as providing urgently needed gallery space, will create a new gateway into the neglected Sydney Gardens
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