All Building Design articles in 20 April 2007 – Page 4
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News
Effort to save Bedford cinema
The Victorian Society has appealed to English Heritage to list the Bedford Hall Cinema in Liverpool and save it from demolition. The 1910 building is due to be knocked down to make way for new housing.
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Viñoly and Piano at BCO meeting
Rafael Viñoly and Renzo Piano are to head a panel of architects discussing trends in office design at the British Council for Offices’ annual conference in New York.
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NewsGarden suburb must stay basement-free
Plans to alter houses at west London’s Bedford Park — the nation’s earliest garden suburb — have been rejected in a landmark ruling by the Planning Inspectorate.
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Opinion
Rude awakening
While innocently perusing the internet this week, Boots’ interest was caught by a feature about a glossy magazine named “Mies”.
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FeaturesWorking mothers can be an asset to your practice
With changes to maternity leave laws this month, Sandra Roebuck advises how to smoothly combine motherhood with career
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Public wants space not style, architects told
Over-design is creating public spaces that people don’t want to use, warns top think-tank
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OpinionRail deserves a Euston Arch
Computer-generated images are so unreliable that we can still hope that Leo A Daly’s new building for Euston Station will be a good deal less banal, or indeed downright ugly, than its perspective view suggests (News April 13).
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NewsWill outsourcing take the heat off Arb?
The controversial validation process for foreign-trained architects may be resolved, as architecture schools welcome Arb’s invitation to take over the exam.
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Save to appeal on Supreme Court
Save Britain’s Heritage has requested permission to appeal against the judicial review which ruled in favour of converting Westminster’s grade II* listed Middlesex Guildhall into a new Supreme Court (News March 30).
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NewsAlsop’s US power play
Will Alsop’s designs to trans-form a disused power station in Yonkers, New York, into a multi-use development have been significantly overhauled.
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PRP plans homes for historic airfield
PRP Architects has submitted a 425-home redevelopment of the historic Cardington Airfield site in Bedford for planning.
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NewsHeritage cash aids Castle refit
Feilden Clegg Bradley’s project to restore Taunton Castle and turn it into the Museum of Somerset has won £4.8 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
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TechnicalA lesson in going against the flow
The challenge: To ensure that rainwater is not shed off the Plashet School footbridge on to the road below
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Lib Dems advocate ‘energy mortgages’
The Liberal Democrats have set out stringent proposals to cut domestic carbon emissions through refurbishment, after taking advice from the RIBA.
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TechnicalPerformance feedback can combat CO2
‘Low energy’ buildings need to perform as they were designed to, and give feedback when they do not
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Think07 at London's Excel
NEWS: Cabe's eco-audit to be launched at Think60 SECONDS WITH: Think speaker Terry Farrell
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ReviewCompetition result: Riba Trust Annual Lecture tickets
Congratulations to Mark Robinson who has won a pair of tickets for Herbert Girardet's Riba Trust Annual Lecture on Tuesday 1 May at the RIBA, Portland Place.
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OpinionBlog: The design blog top 25
Putting aside professional rivalry, Phil Clark offers his guide to the best architecture in the blogosphere
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NewsGrosvenor defends Paradise St
Developer blames tight timescales for Liverpool scheme’s £140m loss