All Building Design articles in 15 June 2007 – Page 3
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News
Scottish heritage HQ split into flats
Oberlanders Architects has won planning permission for a £5 million project to convert Scottish National Heritage’s former headquarters in Edinburgh into flats.
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NewsYoung firm nets Offley
Leading young architect 6a has scooped the top prize in a competition to transform the disused Offley Works in Lambeth, south London.
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FeaturesSizing up the file sending options
I often need to send large files and packages to people I am working with. Email leaves a lot to be desired, and sometimes there just isn’t time to burn a CD/DVD and post it. Can you recommend an alternative method?
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News‘Pavilion’ housing for east London
Rivington Street Studio has received planning permission for this £2 million concrete and timber office building, the final element of its Back Church Lane scheme in London’s Tower Hamlets.
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Opinion
Quick on the draw
At last week’s Big Auction, Boots was amused to see RIBA president Jack Pringle get into a macho bidding war with Ian Simpson over Toyo Ito’s Tokyo, an original colour drawing of Ito’s recent projects in Japan.
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Hadid drafted in at Serpentine
Hadid has also become the third architect to be involved in this year’s Serpentine pavilion after the scheme by architect Kjetil Thorsen and artist Olafur Eliasson was delayed by two weeks.
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NewsFoster even stronger as profits double...
Foster & Partners looks to be cementing its reputation as the world’s leading practice after a remarkable jump in pre-tax profits for the last financial year, to £6.3 million, more than double the previous year’s £2.5 million.
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Design fault threatens exemplar eco-town
Swedish inspiration for Brown’s initiative faces “ticking time bomb” as damp rots timber frames
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OpinionIn the dark
It was illuminating to read the piece about “green lighting” (Solutions May 25), especially the 998 LEDs on the Sackler Crossing in Kew Gardens.
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NewsGlasgow museum costs spiral
The cost of Zaha Hadid’s flagship transport museum in Glasgow (pictured) has risen again, by £14 million, to £74 million. The initial cost was projected at £50 million, but it has risen almost 50% to date.
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TechnicalThe shape of homes to come
BRE’s Offsite 2007 show reveals the strides carbon-efficient housing has made.Pictures by Peter White, BRE
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ReviewMoving into the colour section
Oiticica’s exploration of space and colour is lovingly curated in this striking show.
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News
Carbuncle cup: send us your horrors now
This year’s award for the worst buildings in the country — the Carbuncle Cup — is now calling for entries.
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UK buildings on global watch list
Four British buildings have been named on the World Monument Fund’s watch list of the planet’s 100 most endangered sites, alongside threatened buildings and monuments in war-torn Iraq and Afghanistan.
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NewsRykwert furious as his one surviving building faces demolition
Renowned architect and academic Joseph Rykwert has publicly slammed proposals by Foster & Partners to demolish his last surviving building and replace it with a “gated community” for the super rich.
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ReviewBuilding up their case
These well presented case studies frame broader thoughts on post-war buildings, writes Alan Powers
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OpinionIs PFI the right way for us to build schools in the future?
Jim Knight says the massive rise in capital investment could not have happened under conventional funding, while Malcolm Fraser thinks the whole system stinks
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Tall build fire rules ‘too simplistic’
The Passive Fire Protection Federation has warned that fire safety regulations for tall buildings are inadequate.
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