All Building Design articles in 06 November 2009 – Page 2
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MultimediaBD Podcast: Piers Gough on the week's big stories
This week Piers Gough joins the show to give his characteristically outspoken take on the week's big stories.
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NewsTower landmark for new London suburb
Broadway Malyan and Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands are creating an entire new suburb for central London, complete with a skyscraper that will appear to rise out of the waters of a little-known tributary of the Thames
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NewsGasworks Makeover
Make’s masterplan for a 33ha mixed development in west London will be considered for planning approval this week
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NewsPostcards champion Manchester buildings
Some of Manchester’s most distinctive 20th-century buildings have been turned into postcards by campaigners determined to protect the city’s modern heritage
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NewsSteelworks heritage evoked
Work on a £31 million sports centre designed by Populous in central Scotland has reached the halfway mark
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OpinionChipperfield's lucky escape
I can empathise with David Chipperfield’s disappointment for not being asked to develop his competition-winning Film Centre design for the BFI (News October 30). My 1995 design for it, for the south side of Tate Modern, was similarly superseded
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NewsMurphy contemplates Edinburgh rethink
Richard Murphy is considering alternative schemes for Edinburgh’s Haymarket site after the Scottish government threw out his £250 million plan for a 17-storey hotel and office complex
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NewsStudio Bednarski wins Danish bridge contest
London-based Studio Bednarski has beaten nine others including Zaha Hadid to design a 180m-long bridge in Denmark
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NewsLegal action puts Hampton Court project on hold
Francis Terry hotel scheme would block historic views, say critics
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Architecture graduate unemployment soars
Unemployment levels among architecture graduates have more than quadrupled in a year according to new figures released this week by the Higher Education Careers Services Unit (Hecsu)
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NewsBDP admits 2010 will cap profits
BDP has admitted that repeating 2009’s set of recession-busting results will be harder to achieve next year when public spending tightens
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Levete's Wapping wait
Amanda Levete’s redevelopment scheme for the News International site in Wapping, east London, has won the approval of Tower Hamlets planners
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NewsAtkins set to poach talent from design-led practices
Large commercial firms are using recession as opportunity to broaden their offer
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OpinionThe writing is on the walls
Twenty years after the Berlin wall came crashing down a new breed of barrier appears to be growing
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Opinion
Wider tradition
If we follow Jonathan Glancey’s argument (October 30), we can’t win. If our survey on public taste in architecture compares similar things we’re superficial, but if we’d compared unlike things we’d be biased
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Opinion
Movie puzzler
A lot of things puzzle me. One is sometimes why clients change architects. Chipperfield wins a competition. Eight years later the promoters get some extra money, decide that they have to hold a fresh competition and look for another architect when they had one of proven excellence. Why?
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Opinion
Spurn this invite
Your readers may be aware of an invitation for expressions of interest for a sustainable housing scheme in Islington. The first stage submission asks “suppliers” to provide an AO board of conceptual design ideas for the site
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FeaturesHow Homebase was whitewashed
Ian Pollard’s Egyptian and Classical stylings failed to impress his client