All Building Design articles in 23 November 2007
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NewsHolburne extension wins approval
Eric Parry's massively controversial extension to the Bath museum finally wins planning following design changes
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ReviewSSAA Christmas Exhibition 2007 - December 12 to 20
This year the Royal Incorporation of Architects In Scotland are playing host to the Scottish Society of Architect Artists Christmas Exhibition, running from December 12 to 20. The exhibition moves to the Royal Glasgow Institute Kelly Gallery from the April 5 to 19.
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Competitions
For sale - Canon Powershot G5 digital camera for sale complete with Lowepro case.
One careful lady owner (my wife), low mileage and in excellent condition.
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NewsDeveloper ordered to rebuild flattened Goldfinger cottage
A property developer who illegally demolished a grade-II listed cottage by Erno Goldfinger has been ordered to rebuild it to the architect’s original design.Rajiv Laxman, sole director of Croydon-based Abrus, was told by Wandsworth Council to rebuild the caretaker's cottage at the Brandlehow School in Putney to match "exactly" its ...
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NewsRIBA blasts Arb review panel plans
Proposals by Arb to allow architects to challenge its decisions have been dismissed as “woefully inadequate” by the RIBA.Arb chief executive Alison Carr had claimed that the third party review panel would provide a check on the regulator and was evidence of Arb’s “open and transparent” approach (News 31 August).But ...
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BlogsNews Junkie: 24 and 25 November
Coming up: design tips for a 'hibernacula', an intriguing theory about the 'multiverse', and what the wally with the brolly has done with his lolly...
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ReviewCharles Jencks and Paul Finch: Critical Modernism - The Hidden Tradition? - November 26
Modernism has been in its many incarnations - Early, Late and Post forms has been the leading cultural assumption in the West since the 1920's and is the topic of Charles Jencks and Paul Finch’s latest topic in a series of talks being held at the AA.
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NewsBritish entries to the Stockholm library competition - images
View entries to the contest for an extension to Asplund's Stockholm library, from British firms Stephen Taylor Architects, Woolf Architects, Florian Beigel and Adam Kahn Archtiects
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ReviewWin a copy of Britain's Lost Cities
Enter our competition to win a copy of Gavin Stamp's sobering collection of essays on post-war British architecture.
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NewsStephen Taylor's shortlisted Stockholm library proposal
Stephen Taylor Architects was one of the five practices shortlisted in the competition to design an extension to Asplund's Stockholm Library, which was won this week by Heike Hanada.
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Opinion
Word to the wise
Designing the Scottish Poetry Library and the Scottish Storytelling Centre seems to have had an adverse affect on Malcolm Fraser’s way with words — if comments on his recent piece in the Sunday Herald are anything to go by.
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TechnicalThe sound of silencing
For buildings such as schools where noise is an issue, acoustic panels are a godsend, writes Victoria Madine
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News
Prasad promises regulation shake-up
RIBA president Sunand Prasad has delivered his inaugural lecture, pledging to hold an open debate on protection of title.
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News
Richard Rogers' Paris retrospective reviewed
The Pompidou is a fitting host for this major retrospective of Rogers work, says Kester Rattenbury The show is aimed at the public rather than architects but there's plenty here to enjoy, says Amanda Baillieu
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NewsMcAslan team to save threatened Rudolph school
John McAslan & Partners has defeated RMJM Hillier and three American practices with its design which would preserve and reuse Paul Rudolph’s seminal Riverview High School in Sarasota, Florida.
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NewsMemorial salutes marines
East London-practiced Barker & Coutts Architects has won planning permission for this war memorial at the Royal Marines Commando Training Centre in Lympstone, south Devon.
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Opinion
Inner meaning
Sunand Prasad’s inaugural speech on Tuesday night kept coming back to a core question — what does RIBA stand for?
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Opinion
Past imperfect
In some ways, I agree with Piers Gough. EH is certainly not perfect but love it or loathe it, we need such an institution.
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News
Kent praises quality hopefuls
More than 30 Kent architects and design firms are in the running for this year’s Kent Design Awards, which will take place at Canterbury Cathedral next Thursday.