All Building Design articles in 22 July 2011 – Page 3
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Features
Class of 2011: Joe Haire, Manchester School of Architecture
A crisis of ageing looms, the baby boom generation is coming into retirement and we are living longer
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Review
Cultural Guide: July 25- 31
This week’s cultural guide visits the moon- early soviet style before learning about the ’most wondrous matter on earth’ at the Barbican
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Features
Class of 2011
Energy production was one of the recurring themes in this year’s BD awards for the UK’s best diploma students.
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Opinion
Three halves
Arup Associates’ PR firm was keen to set try and set the record straight after Mike Beaven, the practice’s leading engineer who is also working on Qatar’s 2022 World Cup, floated the idea that Fifa could “stop a match and play three 30-minute thirds rather than two 45-minute halves” to ...
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Technical
Tonkin Liu’s Shi Ling Bridge
A new “shell lace” structural technique was used to create a conceptual design of a 120m-long steel pedestrian bridge in China.
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Opinion
Brick dropped
There were claims this week that hospitals will soon be resembling “sheds” and that the UK is too fond of bricks and mortar – presumably the sort that has in the past produced St Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster Abbey and Tower Bridge.
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News
George Clarke to front empty homes TV series
Architect and TV presenter to lobby government over housing crisis
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News
Avanti's £18m health centre opens in Barrhead
An £18 million health centre in Barrhead designed by Avanti Architects for NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde Health Board and East Renfrewshire Council has opened.The building contains three GP practices, a clinical zone, two dental practices, adult mental-health services, a podiatry and physiotherapy department, an elderly day care centre and ...
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News
BDP to masterplan city in Fujian
BDP will develop a sustainable masterplan for a 15sq km city in Hua’An County, a World Heritage Site in the southern Fujian province of China.
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News
Austin-Smith Lord for cultural quarter
Austin-Smith Lord has won its first major international project, a cultural quarter in the centre of Abu Dhabi
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News
Big names line up for Houston gallery
Steven Holl, Morphosis and Snøhetta have been appointed by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, to prepare conceptual design proposals for a new building.
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Building Study
Serie Architects’ Chinese calligraphy museum rewrites the traditional garden
Serie Architects has unveiled designs for a new calligraphy museum in Linyi, in China’s north-eastern Shandong province.
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News
Minister favours ‘sheds’ for hospitals
Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude emphasises future flexibility
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Review
Studio In The Woods 2011
Last weekend – while muggles all over the land flocked to cinemas to see the final Harry Potter film – on a little Isle (of Wight) a short swim away, gathered 60 magical architecture creatures for their annual timber-play ritual
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News
Aberdeen City Garden finalists announced
Shortlist includes Mecanoo, Snohetta, Gustafson Porter working with Niall McLaughlin and Foster & Partners
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News
Foster & Partners and Make schemes win council backing in Croydon
Councillors approve two huge regeneration projects next to East Croydon train station
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Analysis
Students ditch UK schools to go abroad
Low fees, star lecturers and good facilities are proving increasingly attractive to British students.
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News
Anger over Hull University library’s pre-qualification criteria
Smaller practices complain of emphasis on experience over design flair.
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News
New design review role leaked in planning policy draft
Design review will be made a central part of the planning process according to a leaked copy of the government’s planning proposals.