All Building Design articles in 09 November 2007 – Page 3
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NewsFunding promised for Exhibition Rd makeover
One of the most significant public space projects in London since the remodelling of Trafalgar Square looks set to go ahead with funding from Kensington & Chelsea council and the mayor of London.
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ReviewStill voices, distant lives
How does a building speak to us of its past, asks Catherine Croft
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Opinion
Corrections
Last week BD inadvertently omitted Burd Haward Architects from the shortlist for the first phase of Rochester Riverside.
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OpinionLe Corbusier’s secret napkin formula
This week, Ian Martin and his mate Beansy channel-hop into several universes all containing Le Corbusier — but which is the right one?
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OpinionDfL says: ‘Come in and see us’
Let me set the record straight about Design for London’s approach to procuring architects (News November 2).
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NewsClimate role for landscape design
Environment secretary Hilary Benn has urged landscape architects to help solve climate change.
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City 'neglected' Smithfield
The City Of London has been accused of deliberately allowing Smithfield’s historic General Market building to fall into disrepair in a bid to get it replaced with KPF Architects’ controversial office development.
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OpinionShould citizens’ juries judge eco-town designs?
Architecture alone cannot create nice places that will thrive, says Wayne Hemingway; but Neave Brown believes successful eco-towns won't result from popular consensus.
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Study to explore violence and cities
Manchester University has announced a new study into how the design of buildings and neighbourhoods can steer cities away from violent division.
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NewsFour firms on RIBA’s Cheltenham shortlist
Berman Guedes Stretton, David Grindley Architects, Ellis Williams and Ramboll Whitbybird have been shortlisted in an RIBA contest to work on Cheltenham’s art gallery and museum.
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OpinionNoble cause
Have the good people of Bath found yet another reason to stall Eric Parry’s Holburne Museum extension?
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NewsRMJM sets a new pattern for Paisley University campus
RMJM has applied for outline planning permission for this £75 million campus for the University of Paisley.
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NT buys land to save it from development
The National Trust plans to buy greenfield land in a bid to stop the government “eroding” the countryside with its ambitious house-building agenda.
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Students make building of waste
Architecture students at the University of Sheffield have helped to design a temporary building constructed entirely out of waste.
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NewsExamplar eco-homes fail final build test
Two prototype houses hailed as the future for zero-carbon development have failed to meet the required construction standards, the BRE admitted this week.
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Brown targets built environment
The built environment has featured strongly in the Queen’s Speech, with bills proposing sweeping changes to the sector.
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NewsSanaa boxes clever in New York
New York’s New Museum of Contemporary Art has unveiled its first dedicated building, designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa’s practice Sanaa.
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Blue plaque for Pevsner’s house
The late architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner was this week honoured with an English Heritage blue plaque at 2 Wildwood Terrace Hampstead, north London, where he lived from 1936 until his death in 1983.
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NewsMull paints it black
Edinburgh-based practice City Architecture Office has gone on site with this theatre production centre on the Isle of Mull.