All Building Design articles in 12 November 2004
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ReviewLet’s play housey-housey
Pamela Buxton enjoys a quirky exhibition of housing designs by Pierre d’Avoine Architects
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OpinionFred Trousers
Ian Martin is away. Our guest columnist this week is Fred Trousers, president of the Royal Institute for the Protection of British Architects.
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NewsOpen and Shut win for forest house
London-based Toh Shimazaki Architects has won planning permission for a 558sq m country house near Dorking, Surrey.
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Opinion
Tribal gathering is a formidable force
If you join a group called Tribal, you probably want the war drums to beat.
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NewsLondon flexes its muscles
London’s bid to stage the 2012 Olympic Games flexed its muscles this week as images were released of an 80,000-seat stadium featuring roof elements based on the bulging biceps of an athlete.
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TechnicalFour flats in a flash
Pringle Richards Sharratt proves small projects can benefit from prefab.
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ReviewPlastic fantastic
“At £75 we think it’s a bargain,” says Lucas Dietrich, commissioning editor of the zanily packaged “exploded monograph” on Zaha Hadid, published next week.
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Building StudySomething for everyone
Anonymous architects rub shoulders with historic heavyweights in the UK’s first permanent architecture gallery, at the V&A. But does it work?
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News
Green office increases energy use
A flagship environmentally friendly council building designed to be an exemplar of the latest in sustainable design consumes more energy than the buildings it replaced.
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News
Fraser puzzled at snatched Edinburgh job
Scottish architect Malcolm Fraser has been left “puzzled” after his masterplan for the troubled Princes Street in Edinburgh was taken forward by Broadway Malyan rather than his own practice.
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News
Driving out the old
Glasgow-based practice MCM Architects has completed this £3 million refurbishment of a 1960s multi-storey car park in Glasgow city centre.
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Technical
Prefab dreams
Over the past five years, we have found much of our housing work has been motivated by the promise of speed, exactitude, economy and perhaps even the hint of perfection — in short, the path of prefabrication.
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Building StudyQuick on the draw
The entrance to the V&A architecture gallery is guarded by a massive isometric projection of the dome of St Paul’s Cathedral (pictured). The drawing, which took five years to complete during the 1920s, illustrates the three themes explored through the gallery — the art of architecture, the function ...
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News
Kings Dock in doubt
The Kings Dock scheme in Liverpool is under threat after local councillors strongly criticised the project.
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Building StudyGetting in the decorators
Caruso St John’s proposal of lace motifs on a new Nottingham project upset some readers. We ask Peter St John to explain why his practice is breaking a final taboo and embracing decoration
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NewsMeet the odd couple
Studio Egret West has arisen from the Will Alsop saga, but will it have its own story to tell?
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News
Whitbybird in newest Clissold pool dispute
The owner of the troubled Clissold Leisure Centre, which has been closed for nearly a year, has launched a fresh legal claim against the building’s engineer for “mechanical, structural and engineering defects”, it emerged this week.
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NewsReviving the classics
Traditional architects are making a bid to reclaim the skyscraper after 50 years of modernist dominance.
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News
Cabe urges rethink on Royal London
Cabe has said it wants further redesigns of HOK’s proposed Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel before giving its support to the scheme.