All Building Design articles in 13 February 2009 – Page 2
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News
Aukett Fitzroy Robinson to restructure as UK market deteriorates
Aukett Fitzroy Robinson is to restructure and is poised to make cuts to its workforce, warning, in a statement to the City today, that the UK marketplace had further “deteriorated” in recent weeks.
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Hammerson puts all new UK projects on hold
Property developer Hammerson has indefinitely postponed construction work on all its proposed UK projects including a Foreign Office Architects’ shopping centre scheme in Southampton after revealing pre-tax losses of £1.6 billion.
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NewsStonehenge win for Denton Corker Marshall
Denton Corker Marshall has landed the long-awaited contract to design Stonehenge visitors centre, BD can reveal.
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CompetitionsHoliday let: 3 bedroom, cedar wood chalet in Pembrokeshire
On the banks of the River Cleddau with own beach and launching facilities, a newly refurbished 3 bedroom, (sleeps 6), cedar wood chalet, with large private deck and stunning views across the water.
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Opinion
Test of time
Our scheme in Southampton’s French Quarter, mentioned in your feature last week, offers truly mixed uses, mixed tenure and tenure-blind accommodation. It also supports commercial office and retail, sheltered and affordable rented accommodation, shared ownership and outright sale homes — the sale units have all sold faster than other similar ...
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FeaturesPioneer spirit meets polyurethane
We look back to the heady days of the 1970s energy crisis, when hand-crafting your own home out of super-insulating foam was the way to go in Wisconsin
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Opinion
Seeing the light
It’s scary to find out that we have something else to worry about other than the impending worldwide collapse of the architectural profession and its client base — the loss of the 100W incandescent light bulb.
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OpinionMud lark
Jonathan Glancey might like to know that construction using mud and earth (“Building with mud, glorious mud”, February 6) is alive and well in north-east Yorkshire. I am currently restoring buildings of rubble stone bound with mud. These date from the late 17th century, so have stood the test of ...
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OpinionWhere there’s muck, there’s indignation
The response to Peter Jones’s opinions shows how we’re failing to deal with rubbish
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OpinionMystery deepens
The mystery man next to Cedric Price (Archive February 6) looks like a young Michael Brawne.
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Opinion
Courtesy title
It is bad enough having the media routinely ignoring the terms of the Architects’ Registration Act and calling any old plansmith an architect without you doing the same in your story about the Prince of Wales’s “Surfbury” development (News February 6).
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OpinionSea change for Southampton
Southampton is a sad city, as described by Owen Hatherley (Urban Trawl February 6), and I would like to see a similar article on Liverpool.
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OpinionRIBA celebrations are off the menu
To add to the RIBA’s problems over this year’s awards is the delicate issue of the annual dinner, to have been held at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in June. Insiders say it was cancelled under pressure from the regions, which have become increasingly resentful that the only architects to make ...
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NewsBlears calls in Foster and HKR’s Ealing development
Communities secretary Hazel Blears has called in a £500 million project by HKR and Foster & Partners in west London just weeks after it was given the go-ahead by the local authority and London mayor Boris Johnson.
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NewsGrimshaw arts centre opens in Troy
Grimshaw Architects’ largest project to date in the US, the 20,550sq m Experimental Media & Performing Arts Centre, has opened.
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ReviewRegina Galindo suffers for her art
Guatemalan video artist Regina Galindo’s work involves personal physical pain and incarceration
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OpinionWhen legacy is dead on arrival
The lack of civic-mindedness during the decades of “greed is good” has delivered only zombie public spaces, devoid of any life
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NewsGareth Hoskins’ grand villa sticks out in conservation area
Gareth Hoskins Architects has won planning permission for this 1,000sq m, six-bedroom private house in the Pollokshields conservation area of Glasgow.
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Building StudyDSDHA’s Pond Meadow School is a singular piece of education architecture
Pond Meadow special needs school near Guildford is the first phase of DSDHA’s biggest commission yet. The external aspect makes free with the sense of scale while its attentive internal detailing is as much therapeutic as architectural
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