All Building Design articles in 18 July 2008 – Page 4
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Review
Kengo Kuma shows a weakness for beauty
Japan’s Kengo Kuma advanced his theory of ‘weak architecture’ at the RA
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Opinion
Is Banksy a better role model?
RMJM’s offer of £1 million to help turn street graffiti artists into architects is well meant and generous, but is it really helpful?
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Opinion
Blame it on the Arts Council
Ellis Woodman’s review of The Public in West Bromwich (Works July 4) fails to appreciate the main aspiration of the project: digital art and art in general as a catalyst for economic, urban and cultural regeneration.
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Technical
Fletcher Priest Architects’ HQ for Rio Tinto at Paddington, west London
How Fletcher Priest designed a single, continuous facade on a curving site for client Rio Tinto
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News
Essex hotel wins planning appeal
And Architects has won a planning appeal for the Rivenhall Hotel refurbishment scheme in Essex.
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Review
Anne Desmet’s fragments reveal flower tower
Printmaker Anne Desmet’s work displays unusual perspectives
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News
Andreas Papadakis dies
The former publisher of Architectural Design, and Charles Jencks’ global bestseller The Language of Post Modernism, has died.
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Opinion
Called to account
ODA chief executive David Higgins is rightly concerned with the bottom line, but surely his toast to the Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects’ dinner in the City of London last week went a little too far.
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Opinion
Should the Skylon be rebuilt 60 years after the original?
Yes, it was an important and beautiful icon says Jack Pringle, but writer and blogger Owen Hatherley says the politics are all wrong
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News
New builds harm CO2 aims
The government is failing to reduce carbon emissions from commercial buildings because of its obsession with new builds, the All Party Urban Development Group said this week.
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Features
Dot to dot: July 18
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday July 23 for a chance to win a copy of Building the Future: Building Technology & Cultural History from the Industrial Revolution until Today by Ulrich Pfammatter.
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News
17 countries agree whole-life costs
The RIBA has welcomed the creation of the first international standard for whole-life costings of buildings.
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Features
Dot to dot results: July 11
Last week’s competition winner was Anthony Lau of Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands who identified Stockholm Library by Erik Gunnar Aspland.He receives a copy of Work: the Building of Channel Tunnel Rail Link by Stephen Bayley.
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News
Housing practices feel the chill of recession
BD survey reveals picture of dwindling orders, redundancies and difficulties in getting paid
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News
Architects blamed for unsustainable schools
Cabe chief attacks profession’s lack of skills for design review failures
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Building Study
AOC’s mobile performance space, the Lift, goes public
Lift’s demountable theatre brings the world to a local community. Ellis Woodman celebrates the AOC-designed space’s engagement with the public
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Analysis
News analysis: is the housing market collapsing around us?
The fall in house prices has prompted a dramatic downturn in commissions, with some architects facing redundancy. Will Henley looks at how practices are coping with the credit crunch, and what the long-term prospects may be
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Review
2D or not 2D? Hugh Davies on the architectural modelling packages that offer you more
The acceptance of fully integrated 3D design might be closer than we think
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