All Building Design articles in 22 June 2007 – Page 4
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NewsCastleford regeneration TV show to go out next spring
The much delayed regeneration programme in the town of Castleford in Yorkshire is finally expected to hit the nation’s screens next spring — six years after the project began.
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NewsCould your snap win you a camera?
The Zumtobel Lighting Photographic Competition is now open for entries, offering architects the chance to win a top-of-the-range digital camera.
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Opinion
Piece of cake
Bakers at the wonderful Konditor & Cook have been struggling to find a suitable cake to mark the opening of their new café in the Gherkin, designed by Jamie Fobert.
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OpinionShould Cambridge build high-rise towers for housing?
Germaine Greer, who will be putting the case in a debate to be broadcast on Sunday, advocates 75-storey blocks of flats. But Peter Studdart says there are more human ways of building high-density
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News
Westminster buffer zone debated
A buffer zone to protect the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey will be discussed as part of long-awaited heritage guidelines announced this week.
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NewsPlanning has broken for Yusuf Islam’s centre
Yusuf Islam — who performed as singer-songwriter Cat Stevens in the 1960s and 1970s — this week gained planning permission for a £4.5 million cultural centre in London for his educational charity.
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Kelly welcomes boost to housing
Communities England, the new housing and regeneration body, will boost housing supply across the country and help revitalise deprived towns and cities, communities secretary Ruth Kelly said this week.
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OpinionBirthday honours – the built environment
Ian Martin gives a run-down of some of the less-well publicised construction-industry gongs
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News
Heritage bid for Darwin home is withdrawn
The government has withdrawn its bid to have Charles Darwin’s home made a world heritage site.
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Better buildings short list released
Motorway widening, bank stabilisation and flood defence are among the 18 schemes short-listed for the Prime Minister’s Better Public Building Award, announced on Wednesday.
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Opinion
Not the best hat
From Ken Powell’s many achievements, it was misleading to select his former directorship of the Twentieth Century Society when reporting his support for Norman Foster’s scheme at the public inquiry over the School and Inner Court in Chelsea (News June 15).
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NewsSneghkin wins BD search for smokin’ smoking shed
Russian architect George Sneghkin has pipped Nord to the post in BD’s competition to design a high-quality smoking shelter in time for the introduction of the smoking ban in England next weekend.
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NewsGore to present energy awards
Former US vice president Al Gore will award a major prize for renewable and low-energy projects this week.
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FeaturesCan we avoid hiring lawyers?
Laura Atherton gives some wise advice to practices wanting to negotiate their own appointments without professional legal help
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NewsMissing architect is found dead
Tributes have been paid to sole-practitioner David Hopps after police in Edinburgh confirmed that a body recovered from the Water of Leith was that of the missing architect.
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NewsAF travel scholarship competition launched
The Architecture Foundation has launched this year’s Public Space Travel Scholarship, which offers students a chance to win up to £1,000 to explore the design and impact of public space and public building overseas.
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OpinionRight-on foodism is theatre of absurd
Global wholefood supermarkets are still about reinforcing shoppers’ sense of superiority
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ReviewFlexible Housing by Jeremy Till
Flexible housing is housing that can adjust to the changing needs of the user and accommodate new technologies as they emerge.
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ReviewEcohouse by Sue Roaf
This new 3rd edition has been expanded to include advice on powering Ecohouses with renewable energy-including wind, micro hydro and heat pumps.