All Building Design articles in 14 January 2011 – Page 3
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News
Residents fight Marks Barfield's Islamia Primary school
Campaign group promises legal action over Islamic primary in London.
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News
BMA reveals impact of poor design on patients
The British Medical Association is calling on healthcare organisations to prioritise design in all future building projects.
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News
Smaller firms may gain from BSF axing
Smaller practices could find it easier to win school design work in future, according to schools architect and former RIBA president Sunand Prasad.
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News
Cotton mill revived as Staffordshire academy
LHC Architecture’s £22 million JCB Academy in Rocester, Staffordshire, has opened.
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Opinion
Staying on track
Grimshaw’s proposed high-speed rail connection between Birmingham and Manchester (News January 7) is not going to be very attractive for passengers if the line is mostly in cuttings or tunnels.
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Opinion
Rich raises question of trust
A debate on the wisdom of axing the RIBA Trust would provide a welcome focus on the institute eroding cultural activities
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Opinion
Redesigning the review process
In the past a “design review” typically meant that a panel of professionals from fields such as architecture, planning, landscape design, and development would scrutinise a proposal, and then advise the local authority or developer on how it might be improved.
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Opinion
Join the protest
For 12 months, I and the Friends of The Green Park and other intelligent and caring souls have tried to convince the authorities and Bomber Command Association to withdraw from causing irreparable harm to Green Park.
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Opinion
A fitting tribute?
The design of the £5 million memorial to Bomber Command with its irrelevant and inappropriate 85m-long classical colonnade, more suited to Berlin in the thirties, along the South side of Piccadilly, was granted planning permission against the recommendations of the City of Westminster’s own planning officers.
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Features
Extreme exhibiting: Roger Zogolovitch
In 1988 Roger Zogolovitch was showing off fish tanks and taxis at CZWG’s English Extremists exhibition at the RIBA
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Opinion
Is the RIBA imperiling its cultural offering?
It risks being subsumed by the RIBA’s business interests, argues George Ferguson; while Ruth Reed says the change will just simplify the existing structures.
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Opinion
Plutocrats or squatters? Your choice
Two towers in different cities give architects a glimpse of the future.
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Opinion
Chinese tower is the height of flattery
Last week the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai, enjoyed its first birthday.
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Building Study
First look: Caruso St John’s Swiss chancel meditates on baroque geometry
Caruso St John has won the competition to redesign the chancel of the Cathedral of St Gallen in Switzerland, beating entries from an invited international group of architects and artists, including Aires Mateus and Pipilotti Rist.
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Opinion
Towers of Babel
With regard to Tower Hamlets Council’s refusal to grant planning permission to the Limeharbour development (“Council blasts Limeharbour plans” News January 7), one can agree with the arguments of lack of 106 agreement and possibly affordable housing volume.
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Technical
Garsington Opera pavilion by Snell Associates
Sliding fabric screens were chosen to clad this temporary venue for the Garsington Opera Company in Buckinghamshire.
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Features
Life class: Cany Ash
Cany Ash of Ash Sakula, answers questions about her life, work and influences
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Review
Teaching Architecture, Three Positions, Made in Switzerland
Three refreshing books emerged from a project exploring teaching and practice
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Technical
Somerville College student buildings by Niall McLaughlin Architects
Niall McLaughlin’s new student accommodation in Oxford makes use of prefabrication in its mainly brick and timber facade.
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