All Building Design articles in 22 June 2007 – Page 2
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OpinionWhat should Brown do for architecture?
Tell us what you think the incoming prime minister could do for the built environment for the chance to win a book token
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FeaturesThe results of our Smoking Shed Challenge
View all the winning entries in our competition to design a good-looking smoking shed in the run-up to the smoking ban
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Opinion
Your discussion forum
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NewsZaha Hadid's design for The Peak, her first major competition win
Hadid's landmark 1984 scheme for a private club in Kowloon overlooking Hong Kong
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NewsDiva Zaha steals the show in Cardiff Bay
Zaha Hadid wins the competition for the £43 million Cardiff Bay Opera House
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FeaturesTwinkle twinkle
Zaha Hadid and Peter Smithson were among the stars who gathered for the Celebration of Architecture in Cumbria in 1984
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Opinion
Vital statistics
Ivor Hall (Letters June 15) wanted to know how the cost of refurbishing the Royal Festival Hall compares with its original cost.
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OpinionSimple stand
Paul Stein (Letters June 8) perfectly illustrates why the petition against Israel’s architectural and planning practice is to be strongly welcomed.
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Opinion
In the rhythm
It’s every architect’s nightmare: having laboured forever over a project, what entertainment for the launch will do it justice?
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Opinion
Madness of PFI
PFI is all about politics: it was devised as a way of hiding the costs of building from the public expenditure borrowing requirement balance sheet. Minister Jim Knight (Debate June 15) says local authorities will continue to use PFI, but that is because the government gives them no alternative.
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News
Victorian Society to make risk list
The Victorian Society is searching for the 10 most endangered Victorian or Edwardian buildings in England and Wales.
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NewsPanels make light work
Levitt Bernstein has completed a student housing scheme for University College London which uses obscured glass to maximise daylight on a small plot of land.
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OpinionMoney for jam
Rem Koolhaas’s exhibit for the Tate Modern’s Global Cities show raised a few eyebrows at the opening on Tuesday night.
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NewsSir Peter unveils Madrid housing
The newly knighted Peter Cook has unveiled the first scheme by his new practice Crab — a housing project in Vallecas, Madrid.
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Steven Holl nets two RIBA prizes
American architect Steven Holl has won RIBA International Awards for two of his projects.
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NewsRMJM to merge with US Hillier
RMJM and US architect Hillier are to merge, creating a 1,000-strong firm with offices in 16 cities around the world.
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OpinionJerusalem: help us grasp issues
I read Moshe Safdie’s comments (News June 8) with great interest. In recent weeks I have come to sympathise with, as he puts it, “the complexity of the issues” in the Middle East, and so with the help of Simon Kaufman from our office I decided to inform myself better ...
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OpinionSeven-year glitch
After last Wednesday’s episode of The Apprentice, can somebody please, please, ask Ken Shuttleworth why on national TV he felt the need to compare architects’ seven gruelling years of training with the apprentices’ three-day “architectural” efforts as equally meretricious?