All Building Design articles in 23 September 2011 – Page 3
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News
Conran & Partners go-ahead for Brighton cinema site
Practice said office building will be the greenest in the city
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Opinion
Where is this war on red tape?
Despite many fine words, the government has not delivered on its promise to reduce regulation
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Opinion
Is architecture best taught by practising architects?
Yes, says Gordon Murray, practitioners understand the design process best; but Kevin Rhowbotham feels it may already too late to salvage a sinking discipline
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Opinion
Success is all in the execution...
The shoddy application of good planning ideas has sold our towns and cities short
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Technical
Ricard Viñes Square by Enric Miralles Benedetta Tagliabue Architects
The lighting scheme was crucial in unifying all the elements of this redesigned public square in Spain
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Features
Rafael Viñoly: the outsider
As the public at last begins to look round Firstsite, we remember when its architect won his first big commission in 1989
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Opinion
Rogue saviour?
UBS’s £1.3 billion loss generated by rogue trader Kweku Adoboli will affect staff bonuses, but will it also have an impact on the Swiss bank’s new London HQ, Boots wonders?
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Opinion
Planning reform threatens quality
I fear that Anne Power is absolutely right (“Planning policy risks creating city ghettos” News September 16): the only reason most developers seek real architectural talent is when they need to get a tricky scheme through the planning system.
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Opinion
Pomo’s a no-no
Bets are on as to who should be given the RIBA Gold Medal, and the hot favourite is Joseph Rykwert.
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Opinion
Not your Mann
British Council architecture and design supremo Vicky Richardson has decided that, in a break from tradition, the curator of next year’s British pavilion at the Venice Biennale will be chosen by open competition, with no predetermined theme imposed.
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Opinion
RIBA is right to raise space issue
It’s good that the RIBA has raised the issue of space standards - such an important subject in housing and yet almost completely neglected by the mainstream press (which I think must be fearful of losing the advertising custom of the volume housebuilders who flood their property pages).
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Opinion
Rio defensive
Country house architect John Pardey played down reports this week that he is designing a £3.5 million mansion in the Cotswolds for Manchester United footballer Rio Ferdinand.
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Opinion
Birthday lettuce
Paying tribute to Terence Conran at the designer’s 80th birthday celebrations at Tate Modern this week, Stephen Bayley noted that Frank Gehry recently marked his own 80th with a cake resembling his Walt Disney concert hall.
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Opinion
Give Aberdeen's gardens a chance
It was really disappointing to read, at the end of Owen Hatherley’s otherwise perceptive article on Aberdeen (Urban Trawl September 16), the uninformed judgment on Union Terrace Gardens.
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News
David Kohn and Make on Olympic park shortlist
Sarah Wigglesworth, Heneghan Peng and Erect Architecture also make cut
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News
Fosters unveils hospital scheme
Foster & Partners has revealed images of its £70 million Manchester hospital for Circle.
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Building Study
Colchester slips up on Viñoly’s golden banana
There are many reasons not to like Rafael Viñoly’s Colchester Firstsite, which finally opens this week, four years late and, at £28 million, costing almost twice its original budget.
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News
David Chipperfield Architects' profits soar as UK work dominates
Stirling Prize-nominated practice sees pre-tax profit up by 143%
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News
Greenwich under fire from NUS for late results
National Union of Students said financial risks of delays “unacceptable”