All Building Design articles in 18 May 2007 – Page 4
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News
Make’s Birmingham revamp
Planning has been granted for Make’s City Park Gate masterplan, which will link Birmingham’s city centre with the Eastside area.
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NewsAviation museum gets Gateway regeneration off to a flying start
This £27 million aviation museum by Walker & Martin, planned for a deprived part of the Thames Gateway, has been put forward for lottery funding.
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NewsMore artificial cooling takes heat off Evelina
A flagship low-energy hospital designed by Hopkins Architects is to be fitted with extra artificial cooling because of long-term problems with overheating.
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OpinionA tip, Mr Armitt: time is running out
At last the ODA has a chairman, an authoritative one at that. Now can we get on with delivery?
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NewsHelp for architects under the hammer
As the Architects’ Benevolent Society’s Big Auction approaches, James Rose finds out what the charity does and why it needs the profession to sit up and take notice
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OpinionMore than just an architect
As we grapple with today’s demands, the breadth of interests that made Sandy Wilson are all the more valuable
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NewsUEA to honour Will Alsop
The University of East Anglia is to award an honorary degree in civil law to Will Alsop.
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Opinion
Agora exists
Gareth Gwynne suggests an “agora” to showcase and debate the major architectural/built environment projects proposed for London (Letters April 27). Has he been to New London Architecture in the Building Centre?
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OpinionWill Foster’s deal with 3i be good for the practice?
John McAslan says the deal can only be beneficial, while former partner Barry Cook wonders if it can’t help but compromise design excellence
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NewsJohn Penoyre 1917-2007
Architect and author John Penoyre, father of Penoyre & Prasad’s Greg, has died at the age of 90.
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NewsNews Junkie: 19 and 20 May
In this week's patriotic issue: Britannia harvests the waves, the planning White Paper dismays Lady Caroline Cranbrook, anaerobic digestion in our homes and an 'in-your-face scrotum' at the Chelsea Flower Show.
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NewsGerman firm beats Adjaye to $100k prize
German firm Barkow Leibinger has beaten architects including the UK’s David Adjaye to triumph in the world’s most lucrative competition for young architects.
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Report: sell public assets for £1
A government report, Making Assets Work, has concluded that public assets such as disused swimming baths, hospitals and pubs should be sold to communities for as little as £1.
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£1,000 student prize up for grabs
RIBA South East has offered a £1,000 prize for an architecture student from the region to take on an additional research project.
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ReviewRural wisdom for greens
Marjetica Potrc combines art and architecture to create an installation representing the Amazonian rainforest.
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MultimediaPeter Cook presents the Store Street lectures: Graham Stirk and Ivan Harbour
The second of our new monthly series of talks hosted by Peter Cook features Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners' directors Graham Stirk and Ivan Harbour.
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ReviewLouis I Kahn: Beyond Time and Style by Carter Wiseman
Louis Kahn’s bittersweet career, colourful personal life and undignified death make him a fascinating subject. My Architect, Nathaniel Kahn’s recent film about his father, brought him to the attention of a wider audience. Now a new book sheds further light on the life of the architect of more than 70 ...
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ReviewAntiquity: Origins, Classicism and the New Rome by Christopher Tadgell
A little shaky on your architectural history? Dr Christopher Tadgell can help, with the first of five Architecture in Context books, some 30 years in the making, that trace the history of the world’s most influential architecture.