All Building Design articles in 04 May 2012
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TechnicalA bravura performance
Steel-frame construction has enabled Populous and Arup to deliver the complex geometries of their Leeds Arena to a tight budget
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TechnicalSteel steps up to satisfy thermal mass demands
Despite belief to the contrary, thermal mass can be achieved in steel-framed as well as concrete buildings
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TechnicalCrystal amazes as sustainable urban showcase
The Crystal, a dramatic urban sustainability centre built for Siemens in east London’s docklands, uses an innovative steel framework to enable its complex crystalline form
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OpinionBattersea ideas are out of touch
The call for demolition [of Battersea Power Station] (bdonline April 20) is absolutist — and not in keeping with the times.
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Building StudyFirst Look: Empire Way public lavatories, Wembley by Gort Scott Architects
Gort Scott Architects has won a competition for a new public-lavatory pavilion on Empire Way in Wembley, designed to sit on a pedestrianised area outside Wembley Stadium in the London Borough of Brent.
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OpinionLondon Met plan beggars belief
The news that London Metropolitan University is contemplating selling Wright & Wright’s brilliant Women’s Library building in Whitechapel and its priceless collection of papers and books is an outrage
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NewsAccounting scam blows £1m hole in AA’s budget
Former Architectural Association staffer at centre of probe over alleged computer leasing fraud
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OpinionWill architects buy Tesco’s pledge to improve design?
With development budgets tight, practices shouldn’t ignore the opportunities that Britain’s biggest retailer offers
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OpinionIf only stations would drop the shops
How railway stations, such as King’s Cross, allow architects to get round planning rules
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OpinionCan architects benefit from self-build?
Yes, says Julian Owen, all schemes need design experts to succeed; but David Birkbeck foresees the rise of kit houses
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OpinionCutty Sark splits public opinion
The Cutty Sark (News April 20 & 27) has been condemned to share the fate of the seaside-town flowerbed vessels stranded by the roadside, full to their gunwales with mud and pansies for the titillation of sentimental landlubbers.
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NewsSwanke Hayden Connell Architects wins 43-storey tower in Istanbul
Foster and Partners, Benoy, Aecom and HOK visit Turkey on trade mission
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NewsRIBA Plan of Work updated to include bim procedures
Bim overlay added to architects’ management document
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OpinionLamont’s lament, glacial tables and support for Ken
Norman Lamont’s PFI lament, Hadid’s aquatic opinions and Richard Rogers chooses sides in the race for mayor
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OpinionVAT pool defence is demoralising
The extraordinary reliance on swimming pools to imply gross abuse by the wealthy in the discussion about removing the VAT zero-rating on listed buildings (Debate April 27) is derisory, like the branding of major philanthropists as tax avoiders.
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ReviewThe all-singing all-dancing pomo toilets
In the week Gort Scott reveals plans for park toilets in Wembley, we remember when another striking public convenience caused a stir in Leicester in 1981
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NewsStride Treglown and Capita win £20 million schools contract
Architects design four schools in Wales
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NewsHelsinki rejects plan for £114 million Guggenheim
Fifth Guggenheim outpost would have been most focused on architecture
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NewsHyde and Hyde Architects appointed to retrofit of "tired" bungalow
Project will complete in September
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NewsKPF scoops Goldman Sachs HQ in City of London
Former BT telephone exchange to be turned into offices