All Building Design articles in 18 May 2007 – Page 3
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...as Foster’s faces share plan probe
Foster’s faced a further headache this week as financial watchdog the Employee Share Ownership Centre raised detailed questions over the winding-up of the firm’s employees’ trust before private equity group 3i’s investment in the practice.
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HIPs face final hurdle
Legal action by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors will be the last hurdle for the government’s controversial Home Information Pack proposals after the failure of a Parliamentary challenge by the Tories.
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OpinionHemp offers even more
The article on hemp insulation by Roderick Bunn (Solutions May 11) quoted a U-value of 0.9W/m2K from Buro Happold for 100mm.
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NewsEast End scheme passes planning
Tower Hamlets Council has granted planning permission for Child Graddon Lewis’s high-density, mixed-use development at the junction of Limehouse Cut and Bow Common Lane in London’s East End.
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FeaturesWhy do we earn less than other professions?
Why do architects earn so much less than surveyors and project managers, let alone lawyers and doctors?
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NewsV&A picks Findlay for Dundee site
The Victoria & Albert Museum is planning its first outpost in Scotland under a collaboration with the University of Dundee and architect Kathryn Findlay.
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FeaturesPrecast disaster
It may be 39 years since the collapse of Ronan Point, but towers using the discredited large-panel system still remain
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Foster faces the critics
NEWS: Foster denies "similarity" between new Abu Dhabi city and Koolhaas scheme...NEWS:...as financial watchdog questions winding up of employee share scheme. DEBATE: Will Foster's deal with 3i be good for the practice?
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OpinionCoal not doled
The May issue of BD Magazine is packed with interest and really well presented, but Retrospect is wildly adrift concerning the “the health of toiling miners” in 1948.
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NewsKoolhaas, Foster clash over ‘similar’ designs
No plagiarism but we were first, says Rem, as Foster’s deny any real likeness between schemes
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Four on Olympic media centre list
BDP, Hopkins, Allies & Morrison and Hadfield Cawkwell Davidson Architects have been short-listed by the Olympic Delivery Authority to design the International Broadcast Centre and Main Press Centre for the 2012 games.
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Fort William centre opens
A new £9 million community health centre designed by Young & Gault Architects has opened in Fort William.
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NewsCase of the empty house
Urgent repairs to save the grade II listed Surrey home of Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle are being carried out by local authority workmen.
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NewsLab to build in Tanzania
SpaceLab’s 21-unit residential building in Tanzania has been granted planning permission.
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Opinion
Strife of Bryan
Boots reported last month that 1970s style icon Bryan Ferry had voiced admiration for the work of architect to the Nazis, Albert Speer.
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NewsBrown under fire on building policies
Leadership challenger attacks eco-towns, housing failures and PFI
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