All Building Design articles in 08 June 2007 – Page 4
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Opinion
Complex issues
The petition against Israeli architects working in East Jerusalem organised by Abe Hayeem and Charles Jencks, although well intended, is simplistic and imbalanced. It ignores wider issues affecting the region such as the complex political background and the violence of the conflict, as well as the sustainable urban issues affecting ...
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Opinion
Fifth columnist
Not content with stoking the war of words with Ken over skyscrapers, Westminster council is deploying a controversial press officer on the tall buildings beat.
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News
New Cumbernauld centre opens
Cumbernauld’s £40 million Antonine shopping centre opened on Wednesday.
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News
Centre for youth design opens
The Sorrell Foundation, which campaigns to involve young people in improving design standards in schools and hospitals, has opened a Young Design Centre.
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News
Tyneside OKs casino makeover
Plans by architect Ryder to convert the former Bannatyne Casino in Newcastle-upon-Tyne into offices have been approved by Newcastle City Council.
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News
Cardiff practice wins eco-home competition
A BD-sponsored design competition for a zero-carbon house with mass-market appeal has been won by the Cardiff office of Gaunt Francis Architects.
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Review
Building walls, not bridges
In Israel architecture is used as a weapon of war, architect Eyal Weizman tells Pamela Buxton
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News
Bradford contest for green homes
The RIBA has set up a competition to create innovative modernisation schemes for Victorian housing in Manningham, Bradford.
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News
Tall tower record for Birmingham
Birmingham City Council has granted planning for what will become Birmingham’s tallest building.
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News
Chatham bids for Unesco title
A bid to achieve world heritage status for Chatham Dockyard in Kent will be launched on Thursday next week.
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Building Study
Looking beyond the horizon
Founded in 1968, the New Horizon Youth Centre is a day centre working with young people who are vulnerable, homeless or at risk in London’s King’s Cross area.
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Building Study
Between the Campidoglio and the builders’ yard
Jonathan Woolf’s temporary information point-cum-lecture hall for Scotland’s Six Cities Design Festival pits OSB against granite in central Aberdeen
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News
Make plans Old Bailey neighbour
Make has launched a bid to bring this bold design to the heart of the City of London.
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Opinion
Boutique politics and boutique architecture
Outgoing premier Tony Bean gives you an opportunity to thank him for all he has done for architecture in the past decade
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News
Massie Architects wins royal medal
Graeme Massie Architects has won this year’s Royal Scottish Academy medal for architecture.
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Features
Janet’s first architect
Janet Street Porter’s dealings with David Adjaye may be notorious but her first architectural commission was a happier experience
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News
Arb plans part III shake-up
Critics say proposed changes would reduce emphasis on practical skills
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News
Approval for scheme to replace Islington estate
Pollard Thomas Edwards Architects has won planning permission to replace a London estate at risk of a Ronan Point-style collapse with a £125 million development.
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News
‘Shared space’ unsafe, says disability alliance
A total of 19 disability organisations have joined Guide Dogs for the Blind in condemning shared surface schemes for the public realm which place roads and pavements at the same level.
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Features
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris are quick on the draw
‘The life drawing class lets people show off their creative flair’