All Building Design articles in 18 January 2008 – Page 3
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Technical
Eco-home success
If you fancy reading about a real success story, Great Bow Yard: Anatomy of an Eco Build is worth dipping into.
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Features
Helpdesk: How to ensure printed drawings reproduce digital files
With digital production, are we really moving towards the paperless office?
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Technical
Green design means fewer drawings, greater trust
By reducing wasteful practices, such as unnecessary drawings, we make better use of time and energy
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News
PfS to link pupils to school design
Partnerships for Schools is to recommend that authorities entering the Building Schools for the Future programme involve pupils in the design process through initiatives such as the Sorrell Foundation’s Joined Up Design For Schools project.
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News
Stirling and Gowan's Leicester University faces demolition
NEWS: Stirling and Gowan's seminal modernist building could be partially demolished OPINION: Can passion save our iconic 20th century buildings?
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Features
From credit crunch to government gobbledegook
If you are worrying about the gloomy economic predictions for the year ahead or the impact of new legislation, take heart: a lot of bother can be avoided if you keep one step ahead and are properly prepared
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Technical
Cost-effective steel frame insulation
Natural Building Technologies has launched two new steel frame Pavaclad and Diffutherm systems to its wood fibreboard insulation range.
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Features
Judges differ over ‘rebirth of cool’
The RIBA’s 40 under 40 show in 1988 boasted projects by Allies & Morrison, David Chipperfield and Trevor Horne — and BD still slated it
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Features
Pollard Thomas Edwards' cooks up a gastronomic storm
‘Cooking smells filter through the office so everyone is salivating by the time we eat’
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Technical
Conserving mansonry
A three-day workshop on the principles and techniques of masonry building conservation will be held on February 4-6 at Charlestown Workshops, Charlestown, Fife.
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News
Gehry is chosen for Serpentine Pavilion
Frank Gehry is to design this year’s Serpentine Pavilion, the gallery has revealed.
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Chetwoods revises Hull scheme
The first phase of a mixed-use development in Hull by Chetwoods has been granted planning after the architect submitted revised proposals.
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News
Carmody Groarke on John Lewis shortlist
Leeds scheme would be the Young Architect of Year’s largest commission yet
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News
Stirling & Gowan’s building faces demolition
Another of the country’s most significant modernist buildings, Stirling & Gowan’s Leicester University engineering laboratory, could be partially demolished, the university signalled this week.
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News
Development body goes to Gill
Liverpool Vision chief executive Jim Gill is to head up Liverpool’s new economic development company.
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Opinion
Why not try some blue sky thinking?
Sick of all those meaningless clichés? Let’s ban them until they are used properly again
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Features
BIM boosted on the web
Nemetschek has added a “BIM in practice” section to its website for VectorWorks users.
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Opinion
Don’t just think big, think mega
This week Jonathan Glancey thinks bigger than big — mega, even
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News
Late start squeezes UK’s biennale plans
The British Pavilion at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale will have to be arranged in great haste, the British Council has warned, following this week’s appointment of a director for the event.