All Building Design articles in 20 February 2009 – Page 3
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News
Handbook says buckle up for flood-risk future
Architects must radically rethink the way they design communities to “embrace” the inevitable flooding caused by climate change, experts warned this week.
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Opinion
Schools out: confidence turns to doubt at BSEC
Architects who attended the BSEC exhibition last week in Manchester were encouraged by the Department for School’s sparky head of capital projects Jane Briginshaw, who told the audience that she hoped the new wave of primary schools can produce designs as striking as AHMM’s Great Notley and BDP’s Hampden Gurney.
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Review
Let’s get physical, physical... rapid prototyping helps bring your projects to life
Hugh Davies explores the latest in computer modelling
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Review
Iain Sinclair’s “Hackney, That Rose- Red Empire” is flawed, yet brilliant
Author Iain Sinclair embraces one of London’s maverick hangouts with his usual passion, but it may take some stamina to read it all
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News
Boris demands cash for Crossrail
Boris Johnson has approved the latest designs for Rafael Viñoly’s Walkie Talkie tower and David Chipperfield’s Seal House project in the City of London.
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Opinion
Board matters
The so-called Arb Reform Group would appear to be determined to try to perpetuate the corrosive wrangling of the last 12-plus years, as evidenced by its near full-page advertisement in BD.
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News
It could be history for Stonehenge bid
Designs by Denton Corker Marshall for the long-awaited visitor centre at Stonehenge could be scrapped because of lack of government funding.
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Technical
Benson & Forsyth’s Nottingham Pod finds its place in past and present
Aluminium proved the versatile solution when it came to integrating this a mixed-use hotel and retail scheme with the city’s medieval layout
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Building Study
Belgian practice Office emerges as one of Europe’s most provocative voices
On the eve of an exhibition showcasing the work of Office Kersten Geers David van Severen, BD looks at the practice’s preoccupation with an architecture uninhibited by function, context and ideology
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News
Final two battle it out in tram test
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands’ redesign of a major tramway in Luxembourg (pictured) is one of two competition finalists competing for the job.
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Opinion
Barking parking
In answer to your questions about the car parking at Barking Riverside (Leader February 13), we are masterplanning phase one (1,500 homes).
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Review
Autodesk’s LandXplorer: kit that’s right up your street
New city modelling technology is given a test run
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Opinion
Should local authorities be given powers to scrap RDAs?
All this top-down stuff clearly hasn’t worked, says Tory housing spokesman Grant Shapps; while the TCPA’s Gideon Amos argues abolishing them would jeopardise future housing developments
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Review
Rodchenko and Popova: Artists who came in from the cold
Tate Modern does justice to the constructivist works of the great Soviet artist-workers, says David Brady
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News
Cabe says half of school designs aren’t good enough
Half of the most recent Building Schools for the Future schools reviewed by Cabe at planning stage have been slammed as “not yet good enough”.
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News
Prasad urged to resign over Arb election ‘endorsement’
RIBA president accused of influencing poll after supporting Reform Group policies
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Opinion
Anti-Arcadia
Sarah Gaventa (Debate February 13) says: “The best public spaces are always those where the community is involved.”
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Opinion
Don’t put profit ahead of people
The main problem with Robin Hood Gardens is a local authority which has no sense of how to cherish buildings that house a settled and close-knit community. The vast majority of residents in Robin Hood Gardens do not wish to leave their flats.
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Opinion
All those against, say neigh
Knock, knock. Who’s there? Maybe it’s a big horse. Maybe it’s a big horse, who? Maybe it’s a big horse I’m a Londoner that I love London so…”
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News
Tories pledge abolition of RDAs
The Conservative party has revealed proposals to give more planning power to local authorities.
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