All Building Design articles in 15 February 2008 – Page 4
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OpinionStop and think before you hit the roof
Building on that wasted space at the top of the building sounds good... but is it?
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TechnicalHas ‘zero carbon’ become meaningless?
The term zero carbon risks becoming a way of hiding a multitude of sins.
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Features
BD’S IT webinar
Last month, BD’s IT editor David Littlefield chaired our webinar (online seminar) for architecture practices wanting to get more out of their IT.
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News
BD launches campaign to save Robin Hood Gardens
NEWS: Time running out to list Smithson’s 1972 estatePETITION: Add your name to our petitionOPINION: Robin Hood must be listedINTERVIEW: “It’s my parents’ best building,” says Simon Smithson
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RIBA celebrates Basil Spence
A touring exhibition, Back to the Future, about the work of Basil Spence, is set to open at the RIBA.
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Embassy backs Dutch designers in UK
The Dutch embassy has revealed details of its support for Dutch architects working in the UK amid a boom in British work for the country’s architects and urbanists.
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Building StudyHistoric buildings brought back from the dead
How can historic ruins be given life and meaning for the 21st century? Ellis Woodman looks at the answers offered in projects by Witherford Watson Mann, Simon Conder and Décosterd-Cotting
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ReviewFluent’s wind modelling program will blow you away
For quick ventilation analysis, computational fluid dynamics is hard to beat. Dan Jestico, senior environmental engineer at consulting engineer Hilson Moran, describes the benefits of airflow modelling with Fluent 6.3
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NewsArt installation put up for listing
The Liverpool Preservation Trust has applied to English Heritage to have artist Richard Wilson’s Turning the Place Over installation listed.
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New London Architecture event focuses on housing
New London Architecture is to challenge architects to prove it is possible to design successful housing in the capital.
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NewsPlanners approve Murray’s Caltongate masterplan
Allan Murray Architects’ controversial masterplan for Caltongate in Edinburgh has been given the green light by planners.
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Features
Apple’s big bite
In the fourth quarter of 2007, computer giant Apple made a profit of $1.58 billion on its $9.6 billion of revenue, significantly higher than the profit it earned in the year-earlier period.
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OpinionAltered’s fate
I enjoyed the review of Fred Scott’s book On Altering Architecture (Culture February 8).
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ReviewHow sheds became Kitt Allsopp’s muse
Architect Kit Allsopp explains his passion for sheds ahead of an exhibition of his paintings on the theme
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News
Cabe again rebuffs Foster’s plan
Cabe has once more slammed Foster & Partners’ Arcadia development at Ealing Broadway, west London.
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Features
Adobe promotes Lynch
Kevin Lynch has been promoted to chief technology officer at Adobe Systems.
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News
£40bn shopping spree for Kuwait
Eric R Kuhne, the architect behind Kent’s Bluewater shopping centre, is to design a £40 billion Kuwaiti town inspired by ancient trade routes.
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News2012 substation clears planning hurdle
Nord’s electricity substation for the 2012 London Olympics has won planning permission.