All Building Design articles in 14 December 2007 – Page 4
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News
Homeowners give new estates thumbs down
Almost a third of homeowners living in new housing estates have slammed their environments as characterless.
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Opinion
Zaha: We dont need a partner
The competition for the Architects Foundation HQ (News December 7) was awarded to Zaha Hadid Architects in December 2004 on the basis of a simple brief for a naturally ventilated exhibitions building.
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Opinion
Space disgrace
May I endorse Paul Morrell’s call for minimum space standards (Opinion December 7)?
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News
HTA scoops design of first eco-village
HTA Architects has beaten competition from Feilden Clegg Bradley, Acanthus Ferguson Mann, Proctor & Matthews, PRP and Broadway Malyan to design England’s first eco-village, it was announced this week.
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News
Tbilisi tower design revealed
GMW Architects has unveiled its competition-winning design (right) for a £20 million mixed-use building in Tbilisi, Georgia.
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Opinion
Let’s stop flogging this dead old horse
Christmas store displays pastiche the past, but the here and now of real life is better, for architecture
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News
Crab emerges on the shores of Lake Maggiore
Peter Cook and Gavin Robotham’s Crab Studio has won a competition to design this new municipal theatre in Verbania, on the shores of Lake Maggiore in Italy.
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News
Westminster council votes to demolish Pimlico School
Last ditch attempt by Rogers, Prasad and Bayley fails to save Bancroft’s Pimlico School
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News
‘Gazumping’ jibe tarnishes exemplary competition
Model competition for Glasgow's Commonwealth Games at the centre of bitter "gazumping" row
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Technical
Ecobuild is coming...
Ecobuild is nearly upon us, and one of its key attractions will be micro-renewable technologies.
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Technical
Code makes greens cross
Sustainable Code levels 5 and 6 are not as energy efficient as they look
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Opinion
Does Unesco exert too much power over cities?
Unesco is a threat to communities’ democratic wishes, argues Robert Adam, while Colin Amery believes it is an essential voice of sanity
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Features
Quick on the draw, cheaply
Increasing numbers of practices are adopting the cheap yet highly effective modelling tool SketchUp. Alan McBeth, technical and design director at multi-disciplinary firm RPS Group, explains why
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Features
Leopard chasing
Nemetschek has released a range of fixes to allow VectorWorks to work effectively with the latest Apple operating system — version 10.5 (Leopard).
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News
Denton Corker Marshall's Stonehenge visitor centre scrapped
No go for Denton Corker Marshall scheme as road tunnel abandoned
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Features
Don’t catch a virus this Christmas
I hear about computer viruses all the time. What purpose do they serve, and should I be worried?
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News
Cameron launches green energy policy
Conservative leader David Cameron has outlined new plans for a “decentralised energy” revolution.
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News
Oxford boathouse gives river a strong design at a stroke
Belsize Architects has completed this new £2 million boathouse for an Oxford college.
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News
Florida school board rejects McAslan’s ‘illegal’ design
RMJM usurps winning entry for Rudolph’s Riverview High School