All Building Design articles in 16 June 2006 – Page 3
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Opinion
Ian Martin
LAB 06: The prospect of a metrosexual mardi-gras has Darcy reaching for the smelling salts
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Review
On the horizon
The Architecture Foundation's Airspace exhibition explores the place of tall buildings in London's future skyline. But, asks Fred Manson, does it ask all the right questions?
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Opinion
Harlow, I love you
Harlow is not such an unlikely place to kick-start a housing revolution. It has a strong history of innovative housing and, indeed, town planning. It has to be acknowledged that not all of it has worked, but also that a great deal of it has, and still does!
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News
The good shepherds
Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano proved themselves the good guys of architecture this week, stepping in to save the London Architecture Biennale's opening event following the 11th- hour withdrawal of Norman Foster.
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News
Six on list for Turner gallery take two
Danish practice Schmidt Hammer Lassen has been named on the star-studded shortlist to design the Turner Contemporary at Margate, four months after Spence and Snøhetta's scheme for the art gallery was scrapped for being vastly over-budget.
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Opinion
Good, but not first
I was pleased to see that BD is continuing its interest in the international humanitarian agenda (News June 2).
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Features
The finishing line
We thought it would be impossible. We were almost sure we would be late. We never dreamed we would actually complete it. Well, it wasn't impossible and it is completed. We can now safely say that pre-fabrication of our summer pavilion is over and done with.
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Review
Father figure
On the eve of a Lighthouse exhibition of Marcel Breuer's work, former employee Bob Gatje reflects on his time working with the modernist master
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Opinion
Mediocrity is just not good enough
It seems churlish, I know, in this week of celebrating all things worthy - architecture, bikes and saving the planet - to come across all maudlin, but I am a Manc after all. And heaven knows, I'm miserable now.
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Opinion
Corrections
Gareth Pearce has never worked for Rem Koolhaas or his practice OMA, as our report "Olympic Copyright Claim", (News May 19), stated.
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Review
Classical education
Phaidon's tri-volume Design Classics is a highly covetable treasure trove of images and info about 999 notable designs.
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News
Scene change
The Royal Shakespeare Company's plan to create "the best theatre for Shakespeare in the world" at Stratford-upon-Avon has moved a step closer as the design for the new theatre is unveiled.
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News
Sheffield Civic Trust will champion modern design
The newly formed Sheffield Civic Trust has pledged to fight for good contemporary design in the city. Launched on Monday, the trust says it does not want to act solely as a conservation body.
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News
LDA U-turn could save Crystal Palace centre
The country's first purpose-built sports centre could be saved from demolition following a surprise U-turn from the London Development Agency.
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News
Green light likely for Cameron's turbine
Conservative leader David Cameron is set to get the green light to install a wind turbine on the roof of his home in Kensington & Chelsea, one of the UK's most conservationist boroughs.
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News
Cabe plans hitlist for ‘crap' design
Cabe is asking the public to nominate buildings and places which should be bulldozed, amid rising frustration inside the watchdog at the "crap" standard of development in the UK.
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News
Bright future
A new exhibition, Future City: Experiment in Architecture and Utopia in Architecture 1956-2006, opens at the Barbican Art Gallery in London this week.
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Features
Will it be bricks or licks?
There's many a closet rocker within the world of architecture. But what happens when you have to choose between the two? As a prelude to BD and AF's Architecture Rocks party, Jonathan Woolf looks back on his early hopes of stardom, while Henry Harrison of the Mystery Jets looks forward ...
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News
Fresh brew
This dramatic conversion of a 1940s tea and coffee factory in south-east London has just won planning.