All Building Design articles in 18 March 2011 – Page 4
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Review
Maccreanor Lavington’s Waterside Park in the Royal Docks
Maccreanor Lavington is creating urban character in London’s Docklands. Here Gerard Maccreanor explains the firm’s housing block.
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Opinion
Waging war on pay complaints
Keir Alexander should stop propagating the myth that architects are poorly paid (Letters March 11).
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Features
Green is the colour of money
Creating a sustainable built environment is the biggest challenge – and opportunity – now facing architects
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Features
Circus tricks
In 1978 Alvin Boyarsky mounted an elephant to celebrate the revival of the AA Carnival, launching a party that took a memorable turn
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Opinion
The art of design
It is interesting in the week that you revisit Koolhaas’s “inside out” Kunsthal (Inspiration March 4) that you also present the proposals for the V&A’s underground gallery extension.
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Opinion
Should the government scrap the PPS7 rural building policy?
Yes says Ian Anderson, the process must be simplified; while Keith Williams fears the loss of PPS7’s fine distinctions could harm architectural invention
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Features
CPD 2011 Module 2: Composite materials and pultruded fibreglass
This CPD aims to provide you with a deeper understanding of what composite materials are, focusing in particular on pultruded fibreglass, and the benefits of these materials to the construction industry. This module is sponsored by Marvin Architectural.
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News
Sergison Bates designs Chile quake-legacy pavilion
Sergison Bates has designed a community pavilion for a site in Quidico, Chile.
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Features
Life Class: Christoph Gantenbein
The co-founder of Christ & Gantenbein reflects on the challenges of defending his credibility as an architect
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Building Study
Bristol feels as though it’s been asleep since 1910
Two centuries on from its heyday, Bristol presents an apathetic, scarred, yet striking face to the world
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News
Architects urged not to pull out of Japan
Radiation fears prompt many to leave country following earthquake
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News
Architects sought for Geffrye Museum revamp
Work based on Chipperfield masterplan includes new entrances and two-storey building
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News
BIG wins international timber housing competition
BIG beats 25 rivals to design and construct wooden multi-storey residential buildings in Finland
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News
Shigeru Ban in Japan earthquake aid
Pompidou-Metz Centre designer hands out cardboard partitions for shelters
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News
Morrison family sinks £8 million into RMJM
Refinancing deal aimed at securing “robust financial position”
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Multimedia
Japan earthquake: video footage from inside Toyo Ito's Mediatheque
Ceiling of Ito’s 2001 building in Sendai appears to move independently of the rest of the building as quake hits
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Building Study
The Dune House, Thorpeness by Jarmund Vigsnæs Architects
The latest holiday home for Alain de Botton’s Living Architecture project sits well with the maverick whimsy of this Suffolk seaside village