All Building Design articles in 13 June 2008 – Page 2
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Opinion
Public unions
Adventurous architectural types looking for an unusual wedding venue need look no further than The Public, the controversial £55 million gallery in the West Midlands which finally opens it door next week.
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Student village wins planning
Planning permission has been granted for a £37 million student village for the University of Wolverhampton, designed by Manchester-based O’Connell East Architects.
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OpinionPie in the sky
Boots was intrigued to see a “well presented, split-level maisonette” for sale within the Robin Hood Gardens estate in Poplar — a snip at £239,950.
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Unhappy planners move to private sector
The Royal Town Planning Institute has slammed the “target culture” of local authority planning departments, saying it is driving employees to the private sector in search of job satisfaction.
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Opinion
Mixed messages
So George Ferguson thinks the election figures could equally show that regional architects are “happy with the situation” rather than being disaffected (May 30)?
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NewsLifting our spirits
The Lift, a transportable, trapezoid-shaped theatre venue designed by AOC, will be among the main attractions of this year’s London Festival of Architecture.
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NewsStreet life on a new plane
Yaya winner Carmody Groarke has designed a temporary 160m-long skywalk to launch the Bloomsbury Hub of the London Festival of Architecture.
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Opinion
Left speechless
I have spent much time trying to persuade Scottish architects that the RIBA has the ear of government. Your leader (May 30) suggests this is no longer the case.
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News
Six shortlisted for university homes
Six practices have been shortlisted from more than 100 entrants to an RIBA competition to design and build 400 student residences for Warwick University.
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Opinion
Parametric guilt
With reference to Peter Eisenman and Neil Spiller in Have computers damaged architects’ design quality? (Debate May 16) and the subsequent letters, it seems to me that the detractors of computer design are rather missing the point.
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Partnering guide to speed planning
A new guide to speed up planning partnerships between councils and developers has been published by planning minister Iain Wright.
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NewsSilver scheme gives Soho modern touch
DSDHA has won consent for the first modern building in Westminster since Richard Rogers was granted planning for Broadwick Street in 1996.
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Building StudyMunkenbeck & Partners finds room at the top for the Jerwood Space
Southwark’s Jerwood Space has expanded further with London’s largest dedicated rehearsal space housed in a Corten shed — on its roof. James R Payne appreciates its poetic simplicity
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NewsElephants pack their trunks
Foster & Partners’ new elephant house at Copenhagen Zoo was opened by the Danish Prince Consort on Tuesday.
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River Don project in for planning
Hopkins Architects has submitted a new sustainable business and residential scheme for Sheffield’s River Don Valley for outline planning.
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Edaw to design waterside site
Chesterfield Borough Council has appointed Edaw to masterplan Chesterfield Waterside, a 16ha brownfield site adjacent to the town centre.