All Building Design articles in 06 January 2017
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News
First starter homes to be built this year
Government picks 30 councils to develop the first discounted homes
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Plans in for £130m Hull student flats
Proposals by TP Bennett feature space for over 1,400 students
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Building Study
Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg by Herzog & de Meuron
Hamburg wanted the Elbphilharmonie to be an instantly discernible architectural symbol to lift the city’s prestige but got a faceless glass block sitting on top of a brick one. Yet in its theatrically wavy rooftop, Herzog de Meuron has brilliantly conjured up an emblematic national icon - just ...
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Herzog & de Meuron's Chelsea stadium set for green light
Council planners recommended to approve 60,000 seat landmark at meeeting next week
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Opinion
Le Corbusier said colour was as powerful as the plan and section. So why is it so often an afterthought?
One of the myths of modernism is that it is only concerned with the white cube. Today’s architects would do well to pay more attention to colour, writes Joanna Day
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Gallery and hotel set for court in redevelopment dispute
ReardonSmith-designed plans form backdrop to central London wrangle
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Sheffield firm designs home for Alzheimer’s sufferer
OS31 seeks planning for bespoke “memory house”
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Earls Court developer eyes more homes at site
Capco looking at increasing number to 10,000 from consented 7,500
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Plans in for Farrells-designed garden village outside Newcastle
The 2,000-home scheme will be built at Ponteland
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Opinion
Garden towns need some garden city thinking to succeed
Ebenezer Howard’s Garden Cities were carefully planned with strict design codes and infrastructure funded by the uplift in land values. The same principles should be applied to the new garden villages and towns, argues Hank Dittmar
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Work set to start on Davy Smith’s Wembley blocks
Demolition of former council offices “imminent” to pave way for 248-home mixed-use scheme
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US billings remain stable
AIA says architects will be first to see benefits of planned spending blitz by president-elect Trump
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David Adjaye knighthood tops 2017 honours list
Architect bags design and construction sector’s top accolade in latest New Year’s honours
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Westminster rejigs planning committee
Robert Davis stepping down as chair after 17 years for new role at culture and heritage
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Turkish city seeks global talent for park vision
Bandirma launches design contest to deliver “new genre” of regional recreation centre