All Building Design articles in 14 December 2007 – Page 3
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Opinion
Off the wall
Mad professors take note: the government needs you to help make historic and architecturally significant buildings more energy-efficient.
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OpinionMore on terror
The prime minister has asked architects to help “design out” terrorist opportunities, and adding a specialist anti-terror module to architectural training has also been suggested.
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ReviewVillages of Vision: A Study of Strange Utopias
By Gillian DarleyFive Leaves Publications, PB, £14.99
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Features
Smart seminar
The Smart Geometry Group, a charitable organisation backed by Bentley Systems, is organising another of its highly popular workshops — this time in Munich from February 29 to March 3.
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NewsSHL scoops Sheffield scheme
Schmidt Hammer Lassen has won an international invited competition to design a mixed-use scheme in north Sheffield featuring a new public square, library, homes and shops.
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Opinion
The Producers
Israel’s Moshe Safdie was quick to defend his country earlier this year when British architects including Terry Farrell, Jack Pringle and Rick Mather criticised some of his compatriots for designing settlements that oppressed Palestinians.
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Opinion
Pipped to post
Boots hears that David Morley is feeling hard done by after being scooped by Make for the London 2012 handball arena.
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NewsStirling Prize set to return to its roots
The growing internationalisation of the Stirling Prize has been dramatically halted by the RIBA, which has ruled that next year’s award must have a more British flavour.
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NewsHotel hangout
This Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners-designed proposal for the Berkeley Hotel site in Knightsbridge, central London, has won the backing of Westminster City Council’s planning committee.
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Features
Greening up
Autodesk and the American Institute of Architects have announced the results of their 2007 Green Index, an annual survey that measures how AIA member architects in the US are practising sustainable design.
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Technical
Green product guide
Wolseley’s Sustainable Building Centre has produced a guide that highlights the wide range of sustainable products now on offer.
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NewsGoing local in Muscat
Foster & Partners’ latest scheme is the masterplan for a new coastal city near Muscat in Oman reflecting traditional Omani architecture.
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NewsSumeray to lead GBC strategy
Jeremy Sumeray is to become the UK Green Building Council’s director of strategy from January.
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Features
Latest feature
Maxon has released version R10.5 of Cinema 4D, the modelling, rendering and animation program.
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TechnicalMaterial evidence
For those architects who aspired to be product designers, this is the publication for you
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OpinionLe rouge et le noir
As bizarre double acts go, last week’s Studio Egret West’s third anniversary party will take some beating.
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News
Eleven on superlab shortlist
Grimshaw, Hopkins Architects, NBBJ and Sheppard Robson are competing to design a world-class, £500 million “super-laboratory” in central London.
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