All Building Design articles in 24 August 2007 – Page 3
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FeaturesReview: Cad program MicroGDS
Cad program MicroGDS is used extensively in Japan, but is little known in the UK. HLM Architects has long used it, and here Paul Tunstall, the firm’s corporate cad manager, explains why he continues to stick with it
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OpinionCabin fever
Is Laurie Chetwood the Richard Branson of the architecture world, Boots wonders?
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OpinionShould multi-storey timber frame building be halted?
Should multi-storey timber frame building be halted? After last week’s huge fire at a block of flats in central Hatfield, Martin Clarke wants a moratorium on this construction type, while architect Andrew Waugh argues for tighter site safety
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NewsConsortium move pays off with Bristol PFI success
Practices’ joint venture on coveted Southmead hospital shortlist
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NewsPavilions outgrowing the brief
With the completion of each successive Serpentine Pavilion — there have been seven — the question of how much life is left in the programme becomes harder to avoid. Just how many ways can there be to design what is in effect a glorified marquee?
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Opinion
Bridge the gap
What was missing from the long discussion I had with your journalist for your story on the Minneapolis bridge collapse (News August 10) was the reference to the need for engineer and architect to work in close collaboration from the outset, not to see the bridge architect as simply fiddling ...
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NewsSotheby’s hover is no bother
Planning has been granted for Paul Davis & Partners’ extension to the headquarters of auctioneer Sotheby’s on London’s New Bond Street.
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NewsFinal bid to halt Ulster Museum extension plan
More than 200 architects from around the world have joined heritage groups in a last-ditch campaign against the £12 million redevelopment of Belfast’s landmark Ulster Museum.
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RIBA's plans to become a watchdog
NEWS: New design panel to advise the president on controversial schemes OPINION: The potential pitfalls of RIBA's plans
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NewsLasdun invoked in South Bank battle
Doon Street tower would be ‘disastrous’ say National Theatre architects
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Hurry to enter the Leaf Awards
Architects have until the end of the month to submit entries for this year’s Leaf Awards.
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Should we move to Australia?
NEWS: As record numbers of Brits emigrate, Australia looks to attract architects 60 SECONDS WITH: Matthew Turner, former Sydney resident gives his lowdown on life Down Under
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Building StudyIn detail: Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall
Architect MUMASlate consultant Viv StrattonRoofing subcontractor Forrester RoofingTrevillett slate hung in the traditional Cornish manner has been used to clad the new extension to Newlyn Art Gallery. A scantle was used to set out the battens and slates to achieve a continuously diminishing coursing without any banding. A scantle ...
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Australia seeks architects to combat skill shortage
British architects will be able to emigrate Down Under from next month with virtually no barriers because of a chronic shortage of qualified, experienced architects in Australia.
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OpinionBroad appeal
While I would agree with Saul Metzstein (Opinion August 3) over the high- rise housing “solution” for Cambridge shown on TV, I cannot endorse his view of David Dimbleby’s How We Built Britain series, which I thought was excellent, light-hearted and ideal material for encouraging many viewers to take a ...
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Cabe rejects Clay Farm again
Cabe has urged PRP to carry out a second rethink over its 2,300-home Clay Farm garden suburb near Cambridge.
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NewsTimber industry: PRP fire an accident
A fire that destroyed two PRP-designed blocks in the centre of Hatfield is being treated as an accident, according to the UK Timber Frame Association.
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ACA warns against RIBA contract
The Association of Consultant Architects has written to its members warning them to avoid a new contract for consumer clients published last week by the RIBA, which the ACA claims could “bankrupt” them.
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