All Building Design articles in 12 August 2005 – Page 2
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News
Dust off your ditched designs
It is what the country’s thwarted architects have been waiting for. A scheme to celebrate the best buildings that were never actually built has been launched following the success of a similar initiative that unearthed never seen gems from the advertising industry.
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Opinion
Design rocks
For crying out loud, will rock gods, movie stars and television presenters please just leave architecture alone. The profession is fine without you.
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Opinion
Who decides?
Is it surprising that design statements are often “no better than a pack of lies” (News July 15)? Even if put together with insight and real commitment are they understood or even read?
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ReviewTour de France and me
For me, the bicycle still holds the same promise of liberation that was at the core of the modernist dream. It’s a relationship that’s picked up on in the music of bands such as Kraftwerk and Campag Velocet. The whole pageant associated with the Tour de France feels like a ...
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TechnicalSmaller, quicker, cheaper
Forget John Prescott’s £60K house, Richard Horden has plans for a £35,000 home, taking its inspiration from Japanese tea houses and first class air travel to offer hi-tech living.
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Too good (and cheap) to be true?
Are we set for a housing revolution or has design lost out in the quest for the £60K home.
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Charles plans Highland fling
Hundreds of derelict historic buildings in northern Scotland could be brought back into use under new plans announced by Prince Charles.
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Emerging firms given masterplan chance
A string of the country’s most hotly tipped practices are competing to design a masterplan for a large former industrial site in Birmingham.
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Stonehenge visitor centre to be delayed for months
The troubled Stonehenge visitor centre will be in limbo until at least the end of the year. English Heritage plans to resubmit a revised scheme for planning permission in November, following the surprise rejection of the Denton Corker Marshall project last month.
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Review
Charting Londons changing canvass
Sonia Soltani on a show looking at land development’s effect on art
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Opinion
Cheaper building is not the only goal
The announcement of a shortlist for the £60,000 house contest certainly demonstrates that an offer of assembled and permitted land is a powerful inducement for builders to offer cheaper houses, and it may identify useful innovations in materials and construction techniques. But are those really the questions we need to ...
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ReviewBreak out of the office routine
Jack Pringle welcomes the AA Digital Research Laboratory’s research into experimental office design
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News
EH branded ‘bunch of plonkers’ in listing row
Huddersfield MP hits out at grade II listing of ‘classic bad 1970s design’
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Future bleak for Pimlico
The end is once again nigh for the troubled but critically acclaimed Pimlico School in central London.
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NewsRichards rare Welsh bit
The long-awaited Welsh Assembly building, designed by Richard Rogers Partnership, can be seen taking form for the first time, as the external areas at the front of the building have been opened up.
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No talking in class gets in way of schools bids
Teams bidding for first Schools for the Future projects bemoan lack of consultation
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Creative ideas for green belt
The government has claimed it is protecting the green belt from development as planners called for more creative use of the land.
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News
Mobile banking
Hudson Architects has revealed £3.5 million plans to turn a grade II listed banking hall in Norwich into a youth venue. The practice beat other architects including Hawkins Brown and Ash Sakula in a competition earlier this year. The scheme, for the Open Youth Trust, would see the 18th century ...
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Opinion
A bad repeat
It is stating the obvious to say that the whole point of demolishing a hideous building, such as Portsmouth’s Tricorn centre, is to enable a good architect to design a better building and avoid making the same mistake again.If it is replaced by something just as bad or worse (News ...
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