All Building Design articles in 18 November 2005

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  • News

    This week

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    News summary this week

  • Diamond Vaults curator Zoë Opacic.
    Review

    From the vaults

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    Could an exhibition of gothic vaults influence today’s architects?

  • StoShield Mesh AES: Fights electro-smog.
    Technical

    Techbrief

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    Wall materials

  • Features

    Virtual reality

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    Two weeks ago, Bentley Systems held a fascinating “executive summit” about building information modelling (BIM).

  • News

    Pier review

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    This stunning structure has been designed by Glowacka Rennie Architects for the Jaywick Sands regeneration area on the Essex coast.

  • Cover from the Penguin edition of Robert Tressell’s The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists: “architects don’t have much idea of the life of people who put up their buildings”.
    Review

    The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and me

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    One lunch hour in the summer of 1971 I wandered into Central Books in Holborn and picked up a copy of a book with a picture of a builder on the front cover written by Robert Tressell. It was called The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, priced 15 shillings.

  • News

    Tough questions for Ojeu

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    Most public work advertised through Ojeu is won by large, established practices. Zoë Blackler and James Rose expose how red tape is squeezing out small practices.

  • Building Study

    Man and monolith

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    He is Jacques Herzog’s favourite Swiss architect and a master of the art of construction. Jonathan Woolf explores the work of Valerio Olgiati with an exclusive preview of his latest exquisite creation

  • Features

    Roadtest: Making the upgrade

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    It wasn’t so long ago that Nemetschek released version 11.5 of Vectorworks. Now version 12 is on the market. Graham Bizley says it is could well be worth the investment

  • The Angel Wings model by Letts Wheeler Architects with art and design practice Wolfgang & Heron.
    Features

    Make me a supermodel

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    Two captivating exhibitions have harnessed cutting-edge modelling technology.

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

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    What to buy an architect this Christmas

  • Donetsk, Stadium, Ukraine
    Features

    How We Did IT

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    Donetsk, Stadium, Ukraine, Arup Sport

  • News

    Pastoral heritage at risk

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    Traditional rural architecture is at risk of being lost forever, according to a major new report by English Heritage.

  • News

    Gough resigns from panel over shortlist

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    Leading architect Piers Gough has resigned from the selection panel for a new performing arts centre in Folkestone in protest at the number of large, experienced firms on the shortlist.

  • News

    Green Gateway go-ahead

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    Government ready to rebrand Thames Gateway with Farrell’s rural renaissance vision

  • Canary Wharf Station, 2005, by Poppy de Villeneueve.
    Review

    Fostering a new photography

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    Charlie Gates applauds a different approach to capturing architecture

  • Foster’s vision for the proposed Heathrow East scheme.
    News

    Foster in Heathrow running

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    Foster & Partners has drawn up early designs for a state-of-the-art terminal for Heathrow Airport, which is set to match the scale of the £4.2 billion Terminal 5 development.

  • News

    Fire guts site set for housing

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    New housing for a high-priority site in the South-east could be delayed after a suspicious fire gutted a historic building in the Severalls former hospital site in Colchester.

  • Maber Associates’ 6,000-seat new north stand for Leicester Tigers rugby club.
    News

    East Midlands

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    Regional news focus

  • News

    Dubai, Dai?

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    The £200 million Bay Pointe residential development by Atkins, planned for Cardiff Bay, has been criticised by Richard Weston of the Welsh School of Architecture as being more suited to Dubai than Wales.