All Building Design articles in 18 March 2011 – Page 3
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Review
Holding urban imagination
Everyone who has wandered past my desk recently has picked up this book.
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News
Lipton says Make’s City scheme is ‘the worst’
Original Broadgate developer Stuart Lipton has said Make’s proposals to replace the current buildings are the worst he has seen in the City of London for two decades.
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Opinion
Who can afford localism?
Neighbourhood plans will only be as local as the people that pay for them
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Review
Il Girasole
This breathtaking multimedai chronicle of Angelo Invernizzi’s fairy tale Italian villa revolves profound ideas of time and space
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Review
Building a Library 47: Civilsation: A Personal View, by Kenneth Clark
Robert Harbison picks 50 books that should feature in any architectural library.
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News
Architecture centres to charge for design review
Under-pressure architecture centres have admitted they will begin charging for design reviews as they face up to life without Cabe funding.
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News
Firms axed as Leeds plans shrink
Farrells, McAslan and Heatherwick all victims as scheme scaled back
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News
Austin-Smith Lord triumph for Hereford's Buttermarket
Austin-Smith Lord has won an RIBA open ideas competition for the redevelopment of Hereford’s Buttermarket.The firm won the commission ahead of Ryder Architects, RRA Architects and Troy Kidsley Architecture, following a meeting of the jury chaired by former Cabe and English Heritage commissioner Les Sparks.Herefordshire Council cabinet member for economic ...
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News
Neil Sutherland wins Bute forest competition
Neil Sutherland Architects has won a controversial competition to masterplan the transformation of a forest on the Isle of Bute, off the west coast of Scotland.
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News
Twickenham explores expansion plans
Populous has been asked to carry out a feasibility study into expanding the home of English rugby union at Twickenham.
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News
Swan Housing firms net £300m contract
A dozen practices have landed places on a £300 million-plus housing framework across London and the South-east.
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Opinion
What is the true value of education?
It’s time we realised that architecture degrees aren’t simply career launch pads
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Opinion
Unwise words
It was entertaining to find two examples of unconscious irony on one page (Opinion March 11).
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Opinion
School of thought
Taking account of all the current problems in practice and education, is there a practical alternative to educating in universities?
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Opinion
Improbable princely union
Norman Foster and Prince Andrew, Quinlan Terry and Prince Charles – every successful architect surely needs a prince by their side.
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Opinion
Golden oldie
In response to “Are Schools of Architecture letting Students down?” (Debate March 11), I regularly recommend HB Creswell’s novel The Honeywood File to students.
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Opinion
Market forces
Peter Stephens’ anguish and Keir Alexander’s depressing conclusion that architecture will be left for those who can afford it if students are lured into the City (Letters March 11) reawaken the age-old problem.
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Building Study
First look: Sustainability underpins this ‘exceptional’ Hexham scheme
Newton Architects has secured planning permission for a new country house at The Paise near Hexham.