All Building Design articles in 11 December 2009 – Page 2
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NewsRIBA rejects advice to hold fire on Arb
Report says institute should wait until after election to demand change
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NewsTrial over previous scheme later next year
A High Court judge has said a trial between Qatari Diar and its former development partner on the Chelsea Barracks site, the Candy brothers, should begin at the end of next year — and not in the spring as Christian Candy’s CPC Group had wanted
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NewsDeveloper cherry-picks from rival Chelsea bids
Squire and Dixon Jones asked to work together on Barracks site
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NewsMixed future for East End
Tower Hamlets planners have backed Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands’ masterplan and detailed designs for a huge mixed-use scheme in London’s East End
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RIBA to open Hong Kong chapter
The RIBA is set to open its fourth overseas chapter next year with a branch planned for Hong Kong
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NewsFive shortlisted for theatre upgrade
Scottish architects Nord and Page & Park are up against Caruso St John, Terry Pawson and Tim Ronalds to design a £10 million upgrade of a Glasgow theatre
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New architect struck off over title
A newly qualified architect has been struck off the Arb’s register, after being found guilty of unacceptable professional conduct
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Opinion
Tropical storm
One way that architects can (and should) make a significant change on the overall carbon impact of buildings is to eschew tropical hardwoods. Our research has shown that imported tropical hardwoods are the key driver of deforestation in the tropics, which is responsible for 25% of human-caused CO2 emissions
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Opinion
Out of the woods
Sam Webb catalogues a number of fires in timber frame structures to support his claim that timber frames are not a suitable form of construction for built-up areas (Debate December 4). It is notable that all of his examples sit within London and the South-east
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OpinionRIBA must stop navel-gazing
The RIBA’s continuing wrangles over registration and regulation distract it from bigger issues about its future
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OpinionZaha and the life of pies
Zaha Hadid Architects is the only practice still doing well enough to appear in the Times’s annual list of the 100 fastest-growing UK private companies. The firm came in at number 67 with 67.43% annual sales growth
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Building StudyAnd the V&A said, let there be light
MUMA’s Medieval & Renaissance Galleries have unlocked hitherto unused spaces at the Victoria &Albert Museum, while making the exhibits integral to the design, using them to define the different zones
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OpinionPlace shaping for everyone
Jonathan Glancey’s article “Who will gallop to the rescue?” (November 27) struck a massive chord in Bradford Council’s regeneration department, made up of planning, asset management, transport, housing and economic development
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Opinion
Dubai dystopia
Congratulations on your editorial on the Dubai debacle (Leader December 4), here’s hoping it gets up people’s noses. There should be no sympathy for those practices who dashed to the trough to help build a dystopian playground for the super-rich, including such energy-guzzling projects as a revolving hotel
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ReviewDieter Rams’ machines for living with
The Design Museum’s Less is More exhibition reveals how Rams’ architectural training brought about a modernist revolution in product design
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Opinion‘Sustainability’ is a dangerous mirage
Even in Dubai, the language of greenwash is used to distract us from the real design issues
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OpinionCorrection
Sculptures on the Woolwich riverside (pictured), attributed to Antony Gormley in last week’s Urban Trawl on Greenwich were in fact by Peter Burke.
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Opinion
Consensus cost
It was interesting to read Amanda Baillieu's contribution to the Spectator’s December 4 issue, in which she described the reactions to her recent editorial on global warming (Leader November 6)
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TechnicalTim Ronalds’ Sevenoaks School centre raises the roof
A high pitched roof of honey-coloured Douglas fir on this new performing arts centre meet both visual and acoustic requirements
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