All Building Design articles in 14 October 2005
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News
Into the woods
James Gorst Architects has entered a country house in the New Forest for planning permission.
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Opinion
Toyo Taverso
Ian Martin is away. This week’s diarist is the influential designer and polemicist Toyo Taverso, winner of the 2005 RIPBA Real Gold Medal for Top-Quality Architecture.
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Opinion
Turn off the style
It is very disturbing to hear that planners in the Lake District are taking a stylistic stance in promoting “bold modern design”, by which they mean “something that is recognisably of today” — the tired old mantra of modernism.
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NewsSoaring south
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands has unveiled images of its 168m tower on London’s South Bank.
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TechnicalReading in the shade
Copper mesh cladding will stop Chipperfield’s Des Moines Library overheating
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Power play
Education Secretary Ruth Kelly has announced more than a billion pounds in new funding to improve and build schools across the country. The initiative includes funding for 10 more Classroom of the Future design projects and 12 new schools in later stages of the Building Schools for the Future programme.
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NewsTime to splash out
Andrew Wright Associates has designed this windswept home and pavilion inspired by the sea and located on a remote island off the Irish mainland.
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Opinion
The mistake of the mega-practice
I have developed a form of Tourette’s syndrome whereby the misuse of the words “innovation” and “creativity” results in convulsions and machine-gun obscenities. Life has got harder (and the office noisier) recently.
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Opinion
Lost in translation
The conclusion to Rab Bennetts’ Soapbox column on 30 September was edited to reinforce his plea for more considered modern architecture from UK architects working abroad.
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News
Hit and miss
Work has started on Wilkinson Eyre’s £146 million Liverpool Arena and Convention Centre at Kings Waterfront. The 9,500 capacity arena and 1,350 capacity conference centre will take two years to construct. The practice unveiled new images of the interior of the centre this week.
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MP hits out as Ritchie scheme gets the nod
Ian Ritchie has won planning permission for his controversial design for the Potters Field site near Tower Bridge.
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Building StudySuburb of the future?
If Britain is to solve its housing crisis, we must learn to love suburbia. Could Maccreanor Lavington in Holland show us how?
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NewsTobacco to the future
Acanthus Ferguson Mann submitted a planning application this week for its conversion of the former Imperial Tobacco office building in Bristol.
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ODPM takes flak on sustainability
The government is under fire from its own expert advisers over the way it is handling new sustainable building laws.