All Building Design articles in 13 October 2006 – Page 2
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OpinionDraught contracts
I’m grateful to your experts for the suggestions about improving my house (Solutions October 6). While there are some great proposals, most run up against the problem I’m confronting, that I would have to rip out new fittings and gut a refurbished house that in all other respects is sound. ...
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Civic Trust has radical plans for Huntingdon
Radical plans to transform the historic Cambridgeshire town of Huntingdon have been proposed by the Civic Trust.
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NewsHopkins favourite for Chiswick House work
English Heritage interviewed Hopkins Architects and five other shortlisted contenders for the hugely controversial extension and regeneration of Chiswick House and Gardens last week.
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Cut obesity with design, says Cabe
In the same week the Department of Health announced Britain was the fattest nation in Europe — with 24% of adults clinically obese — Cabe has released a report that champions urban design as the key to tackling the problem.
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NewsGalleries rediscover the blank canvas
London’s Frieze Art Fair, which opens this weekend, has reignited the debate over what makes the best art space. Is it a white cube or a cubic fantasy?
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BRE backs Rouse on suburban expansion
The Building Research Establishment this week added its voice to growing calls for a government rethink on suburbs and the inner city.
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Specifiers under fire in back injury campaign
The Health and Safety Executive is planning to track down architects who specify heavy blocks that put construction workers at risk.
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Young practices compete for Aylesbury masterplan
Young practices including S333, Witherford Watson Mann and de Rijke Marsh Morgan are among those competing to masterplan the redevelopment of a huge council estate which has become a graveyard for previous schemes.
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Opinion
Why is it so hard for young architects?
A year ago, when our practice Lynch Architects won the Young Architect of the Year Award, my wife Claudia and I were preparing to take our students to Oporto to see again the work of Alvaro Siza, and experience a place whose spirit can be felt in the care its ...
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Arb chief speaks out against reform group
The Arb’s new chief executive has criticised the Arb Reform Group in her first interview in the post.
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NewsPlay it again, Frank
Brighton & Hove Council’s Policy & Resources Committee gave the go-ahead to Frank Gehry’s controversial King Alfred scheme last week.
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RIBA adopts ‘contraction and convergence’ model
The RIBA has become one of the first professional institutes in the UK to sign up to the “contraction and convergence” approach to managing climate change.
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NewsIt’s all academic
Conservative leader David Cameron pledged his support to prime minister Tony Blair’s city academy scheme this week as he opened the latest school by Foster & Partners, the London Academy in Edgware.
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Battersea scheme ‘not abandoned’
Parkview International has insisted that it is pressing ahead with Arup’s masterplan to redevelop Battersea Power Station, despite reports to the contrary.
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Opinion
Time to abandon chartered practice
Can I add my support to Tom Jestico’s suggestion (Letters October 6) that the RIBA’s chartered practice scheme is abandoned.
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RIBA hotel contest hit by PPS7 difficulties
A high-profile RIBA competition to design a boutique country-house hotel is likely to fall at the first hurdle as it comes up against PPS7, the legislation which governs development in rural areas.
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