All Building Design articles in 09 Nov 2012
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Review
Top 50 films for architects: The Iron Gate (Cairo Station)
Chahine’s film evokes the hollow feeling of being left behind
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Features
Dear Matthew: Should I go it alone?
BD’s agony uncle advises a nervous employee hoping to go solo
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Review
The Architects by Stefan Heym
Will WIles hails a long-unpublished novel from an East German dissident
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News
Wilkinson Eyre profits flat while turnover falls
Turnover slips 9% in latest accounts of basketball arena architect
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Multimedia
Rotten Utopia: residents of Robin Hood Gardens on their love for the estate
A group of students from St Martins has produced a short film on the Smithons’ soon-to-be-demolished Robin Hood Gardens
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Features
Dear Matthew: I want out
BD’s agony uncle offers guidance to a frustrated partner looking to avoid a messy divorce
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Building Study
The Guts, New Islington housing by Mae
Hit by the recession, Manchester’s New Islington project has been rejuvenated with the arrival of Mae Architects’ social housing
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News
Bartlett tutors at war with UCL
Academic staff claim they were ‘snubbed’ in planning of east London’s Carpenters Estate campus
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News
Sanaa branches out
Prizker Prize-winning architect completes outpost for the Louvre in northern France
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News
Grimshaw and Wilkinson Eyre shortlisted for Hong Kong’s art-themed park
Foster Partners, West 8 and Gustafson Porter also included
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News
George Ferguson: the red-trousered philanthropist
Next Thursday Bristol will elect a city mayor. But can George Ferguson win on an independent ticket?
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Features
Win a Lego Architecture Villa Savoye kit
Enter BD’s short survey on competitions and win a Lego Architecture kit
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Tablet only
Industrial museum, Chongqing, China by Avanti Architects
Chinese project will be the focal point for 22ha masterplan
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Opinion
UCL’s Stratford plans must strike a delicate balance
Negotiations over the university’s scheme for a Carpenters Estate campus should look to King’s Cross as an example
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Opinion
Can cities be stormproof by design?
Hurricane Sandy is a reminder that is too easily forgotten
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Opinion
Is the RIBA right to overhaul its Plan of Work?
Yes, says Dale Sinclair, it is no longer tailored to the way we work today; while Mark Newall says the general membership should have been consulted
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Features
Tuning in to Croydon’s town model
As Assemble completes a public square in Croydon , we remember a 1992 concept for its town centre