All Building Design articles in 07 Sept 2012
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News
Student anger at school’s visa crisis
London Metropolitan architecture students will be offered places at Kingston and University of East London
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News
East puts Stratford scheme in the mix
Project includes apartments, cafe and rooftop pavilion with view of the Olympic Park
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Building Study
Work starts on Arup's £16 million Cambridge sports centre
Architect has designed university facility to be naturally lit and ventilated
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Opinion
Who at the AA will take responsibility?
The AA Council remains remarkably silent about how the school came to be £5.5 million out of pocket
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Opinion
Community is key to new planning policy
New neighbourhood planning provisions are vital tools to get housebuilding moving again
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Opinion
Is the Venice Biennale self-indulgent?
Yes, says Hani Rashid, it offers distilled data instead of powerful solutions; while Ann Marie Aguilar thinks it’s no indulgence for architects to talk to each other
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Review
A decade of capital designs
The London Design Festival is still pushing the boundaries as it celebrates its 10th year
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Features
Horsing around Europe
We recall the chequered history of the four horses of the Triumphal Quadriga, who toured Europe in 1982
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Opinion
Schools need to be reformed
Perhaps Tom Jefferies, Manchester’s head of school, should spend some time out here with practices and understand the economic realities of practice before suggesting that salaries should increase to recompense students for the astronomical debt levels they incur while studying at his institution (News August 24).
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Opinion
Ending quotas is the road to ruin
In your report on the call to scrap affordable housing quotas (bdonline August 23) Grant Shapps asks: “Why is it in this country we don’t build homes specifically for rent, unlike almost everywhere else in the world?… We have buy-to-let but not build-to-let.”
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Opinion
Prix has a point about biennale
Wolf Prix makes a decent argument (News August 31). Although the topics he raises — such as US housing collapse — are overtly political and of the day, they’re of concern to everyone and not architecture particularly.
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News
Glenn Howells wins planning for remembrance centre
Architects working closely with landscape architects at National Memorial Arboretum
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News
Cameron announces further shake-up of planning
Projects to be fast-tracked and affordable housing waived in bid to boost growth
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Review
John Assael: ‘Barcelona has got everything’
The Assael co-founder on Victorian London, social housing and the polarisation of the architectural profession
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News
Recession is focus of TV’s Stirling Prize show
Special edition of the Culture Show will be fronted by architecture critic Tom Dyckhoff
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News
Carmody Groarke designs crystal exhibition
Design Museum’s Digital Crystal show is dedicated to Swarovski
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Inspirations
Nicholas Grimshaw's inspiration: Clifton Suspension Bridge
Nicholas Grimshaw is fascinated by the engineering genius and iconic simplicity of Brunel’s masterpiece