All Building Design articles in 14 December 2007 – Page 5
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News
Stop opposing bill, urges RTPI
The Royal Town Planning Institute is urging green groups to stop opposing the planning bill.
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News
Sustrans scoops Big Lottery prize
The Sustrans’ Connect 2 project has scooped the £50 million Big Lottery Fund prize after securing the most votes in a massive public telephone and internet poll, televised on ITV.
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Opinion
Being a bit dense
Who wants to live in a tiny hermetically sealed plastic house with hi-tech detailing that will weather badly, be expensive to maintain, and so lose value (Debate December 7)?
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ReviewLook back to see the future
Let your mind leap into this magical world of early film footage, urges Kester Rattenbury
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NewsHong Kong comes back to Hadid
Zaha Hadid is returning to the location of the unbuilt scheme that made her name with this design for a 12,000sq m Innovation Tower for the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
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Niemeyer unveils major arts plan
Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, 100 years old tomorrow, has unveiled plans for a huge new arts building that will place the small Spanish city of Avilés, a former steel hub, at the heart of a international cultural network.
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NewsMUMA triumphs in Bath arts contest
McInnes Usher McKnight Architects (MUMA) has triumphed in a head-to-head with Tony Fretton Architects for Bath University’s new arts complex.
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NewsArmitt quits chief Gateway role
Thames Gateway chief executive Judith Armitt (right) has resigned just two weeks after Gordon Brown announced a plan for the region including a £9 billion investment.
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ReviewThinkers for Architects: Irigaray, Deleuze & Guattari, and Heidegger
Routledge, PB, £15.99 each
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Technical
Another world unfolds within
Site: The Centre for Film & Visual Media Research, London WC1
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OpinionYear ends as it began – almost
Eagerness to demolish Pimlico School, sits particularly poorly with the failure of new school designs to pass muster
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ReviewMaster of all trades
Jean Prouvé was a major presence in French construction for nearly 50 years without ever qualifying as an architect or engineer. A new exhibition does justice to his lasting influence, writes Ken Powell
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News
Architects come to aid of Crisis
Architecture for Humanity is working with Crisis Open Christmas to provide a warm welcome for homeless people staying at crisis centres over Christmas.
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News‘Inflexible’ PFI works against sustainability
Long-term deals are like supertankers you can’t turn around, says report
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Opinion
Say it again
Yvette Cooper’s announcement that £200 million is to be spent over five years remaking the Thames Gateway is good news.
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Building StudyBD's buildings of 2007
Ellis Woodman looks back at the architectural highs and lows of 2007, and top architects pick their favourite buildings of the year
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OpinionHeadlines you may have missed in 2007
Ian Martin looks back at some of the more unusual headlines from 2007
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News
Purnell gives museums £100m
More than £100 million is to be devoted to maintaining the assets of government-sponsored museums over the next three years, the Department for Culture, Media & Sport has announced.
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NewsFresh blow to SMC as shortfall looms
The troubled SMC Group has uncovered a further shortfall of up to £800,000 in its accounts.In an announcement likely to deepen concern among shareholders, the group’s board admitted on Thursday that “further investigations” into its finances by an independent firm of accountants had revealed the shortfall, which is in addition ...