All Building Design articles in 14 November 2008 – Page 3
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Building StudyRiches Hawley Mikhail’s Clay Fields sustainable housing
Riches Hawley Mikhail’s Clay Fields affordable housing scheme at Elmswell, near Bury St Edmunds, successfully integrates sustainable village living and locally appropriate design
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Building StudyIn detail: Riches Hawley Mikhail’s Clay Fields housing scheme, Elmswell, Suffolk
An affordable housing development in the Suffolk village of Elmswell incorporates sustainable construction technologies to achieve exemplary low levels of embodied energy and carbon emissions.
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Opinion
Centre priorities
The Stephen Lawrence Centre opened in February 2008, on time and on budget, which showed the level of strong management expertise and leadership.
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NewsSheffield’s steel-clad centre for local enterprise shows its mettle
London-based practice Zero Zero has won planning consent for a £4.1 million centre for local enterprise in north-west Sheffield.
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Carillion to build Mecanoo’s library
Carillion has been appointed as contractor for the £193 million Birmingham Library by Dutch architect Mecanoo.
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OpinionBlade runners
Plans by Norman Foster to plonk an 85m-high wind turbine on top of Manchester City Football Stadium have been ditched after fears that it could become a giant death trap.
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Opinion
Better plan
I would like to set straight some points raised in your news story “Berkeley Group chief blasts ‘secretive’ Cabe” (October 31).
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News
BDP/Haverstock win in Southwark
Architects BDP and Haverstock Associates have won Southwark’s £200 million Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme.
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FeaturesBayley’s white-hot design cauldron
Stephen Bayley plots our design future from his V&A bunker in 1982
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News
US embassy bars British tenders
British companies will be barred from bidding for work to build the £275 million US embassy in Battersea, south London.
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NewsBoris backs Crossrail in transport strategy
London mayor Boris Johnson has pledged to invest in Crossrail as part of his 10-year business plan for the capital’s transport system.
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Outcry as Landscape Institute shuts archive
Leading figures in landscape architecture have slammed the Landscape Institute’s decision to close its archive and downsize its library.
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TechnicalIwamoto Scott Architecture’s Voussoir Cloud
Iwamoto Scott’s Voussoir Cloud at the Southern California Institute of Architecture is a temporary installation showcasing the power of building offsite with paper
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OpinionArchitecture failed in Deptford
Isn’t BD missing the “elephant in the room” in its reporting of the Stephen Lawrence Centre fiasco (November 7)? Namely, a failure of architecture.
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OpinionWill the downturn be good for architectural creativity?
Yes, says Nigel Coates, as that’s when ideas are nurtured, but Grimshaw partner Neven Sidor believes creativity is driven by surplus
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NewsGreen light for Bond Bryan’s West Anglia campus
Bond Bryan Architects’ new £92 million campus for the College of West Anglia has been granted planning permission.
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Opinion
Red alert
Bloggers are asking why this month’s RIBA Journal carries a scathing review of Make’s Jubilee Campus at Nottingham University, featuring ski-slope buildings clad in landscape-format terracotta panels in random shades of blood red, while praising the rather similar (landscape-format, pressed metal panels in, er, random shades of blood red) Sheppard ...
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TechnicalCartwright Pickard’s modular housing for east Africa
Cartwright Pickard is creating modular homes for east Africa that can be rapidly assembled offsite
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OpinionAcademies rule
Owen Hatherley’s criticism that the academy schools programme is meretricious misses the point (Opinion October 31).
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