All Building Design articles in 07 November 2008
07 November 2008-
CompetitionsFor Sale: 2002 Subaru Impreza WRX Estate
2ltr Turbo, 4x4, Prodrive Power Pack upgrade, 265BHP, 54000miles, FSH, Tracker,
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RIBA launches facility to predict buildings' energy use
The RIBA has launched Carbon Buzz, an online facility that lets practices monitor their projects’ energy-use.
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FeaturesDot to dot: 07 November 2008
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday November 12 for a chance to win a copy of Out There: Architecture Beyond Building, the catalogue of this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale.
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DCLG says one bid in 12 merits ‘A’
Just one of the 12 sites shortlisted for the government’s eco-towns programme has fully met the required standard, it emerged this week.
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FeaturesDot to dot results: October 31
Last week’s winner was David Rosenberg of Velorose, who identified Erno Goldfinger’s Willow Road houses in north London.
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OpinionWay-out Westfield is about cashing in
Glitzy Westfield, in contrastingly bleak Shepherd’s Bush, is a surreal monument to capitalism
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FeaturesTrump tees off into the abyss
With Glasgow’s Lighthouse under threat, perhaps Donald Trump should now turn his attention to the rest of our recession-struck isle?
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NewsRow grows as RIBA shops ban ACA’s rival contract
The row between the RIBA and the Association of Consultant Architects over client contracts has escalated after it emerged that the institute is refusing to stock the ACA’s rival contract in its bookshops.
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OpinionAdjaye must see this through
The Stephen Lawrence Centre is beset with problems, but with its architect’s help it can still be the inspiration it was intended to be
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Renewed Shaw House lives again
Purcell Miller Tritton has completed its £6 million restoration of Shaw House, a 16th century manor in Newbury which was once the scene of an assassination attempt on Charles I.
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NewsBarnet aims high
Work has started on the £28 million redevelopment of Barnet College, north London, by education specialist Perkins Ogden Architects.
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Opinion
Alien world
For much of last Friday’s Poundbury Supercrit, Leon Krier gave a convincing impression of someone who lives in the real world.
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NewsCardiff training centre approved
A £3 million vocational training centre for people with learning difficulties, by Design Research Unit Wales, has won planning permission.
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Competitions
Learning quarter seeks architects
A competition has been launched to find an architect for Glasgow’s new 80,000sq m city centre learning quarter — part of BDP’s masterplan to merge its four city centre colleges.
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FeaturesNightingale Associates and toading
‘We had two teams in the toading world cup in May in Lewes’
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OpinionBad baggage
I was delighted to read George Oldham’s assurance that progress has been made at Arb (Letters October 31).
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BD campaign highly commended
BD’s Rescue Robin Hood Gardens campaign was narrowly beaten into second place in the British Society of Magazine Editors’ award for campaign of the year.
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NewsMandelson praises ‘perfect’ Benoy
Government minister Peter Mandelson has heaped praise on Benoy Architects as the practice joined a British business delegation to the Gulf this week.
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Lords design bill victory
The cross-party campaign in the House of Lords to put design quality at the heart of the planning bill scored a significant victory this week as the government put in two key amendments.