All Building Design articles in 06 July 2007 – Page 2
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NewsNews Junkie: 7 and 8 July
This week's bizarre vocations include nighthawking, happiness indexing, micro-miniaturising, growth summit chairing, cathedral cloning, stoat-watching and Gore-baiting.
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Opinion
Up the wrong tree
I strongly disagree with Greg Penoyre’s view of the Singing Ringing Tree. It is not a bad sculpture and it might win the sculpture award, art award or whatever, but not any architectural ones!
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ReviewZaha’s sweet success
This is London’s overdue recognition of Hadid’s position at the summit of architecture
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Opinion
The wet set
Torrential rain and floods didn’t stop architects in the North-west turning out on Monday for RIBA’s Manchester lectures, put together by Roger Stephenson.
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RIBA proposes a ‘plan for success’
The RIBA has announced details of its “plan for success” — a five-year strategy for the institute.
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NewsPMT and Niall Phillips merge
Historic buildings specialist Purcell Miller Tritton is set to extend its new-build business after merging with Niall Phillips Architects, designer of Wolverhampton’s £6.7 million art gallery project.
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NewsLow-cost, low-impact studio makes for a short walk to work
Mole Architects has completed work on the £55,000 Mole Studio, next to its award-winning Black House in Cambridgeshire.
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Work starts on Living Wall
Work has begun on Foster & Partners’ Living Wall project, a mixed-use development in the centre of Amman in Jordan.
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Opinion
Weakest link
Architect Hugh Parker gave an embarrassing performance on Saturday night’s Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, leaving with only £8,000.
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Opinion
Town Krier
Just in case anyone plans to drop in on Danny Libeskind this summer, his French retreat is in Callas, not Claviers as stated in last week’s Boots
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Unesco lists Sydney Opera House
Sydney Opera House has been added to Unesco’s list of World Heritage Sites. The decision makes Jørn Utzon only the second living architect to design a work that meets the Unesco criteria of “a masterpiece of human creative genius”.
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NewsHodge receives lukewarm welcome
Architects have bid a less than fond farewell to David Lammy, who has been replaced as architecture minister by Margaret Hodge in last week’s government reshuffle.
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NewsWaterloo ‘Sisters’ go to planning
Allies & Morrison has submitted plans to Lambeth Borough Council for its Three Sisters scheme next to Waterloo Station.
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ReviewSheffield school's gems are well hidden
The spotlight is on Sheffield in the latest of BD's student show reports, reviewed by Philip Bintlif
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OpinionOut of the frame
Further to your debate on the use of partnering agreements by housing associations (June 8), readers may be interested in our experience as a small practice in this field.
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OpinionFlick flop
Sydney Pollack’s documentary about Frank Gehry failed to impress Nigel Andrews, the FT’s film critic.
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Zaha Glasgow museum granted extra funding
Extra funding for Zaha Hadid’s Museum of Transport in Glasgow has been approved after SNP opposition councillors withdrew their objections and agreed a £14 million increase in the budget.
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FeaturesWalking to World’s End
Eric Lyons returned to his Chelsea scheme in 1977 to see if the experiment in high-density housing was working