All Building Design articles in 24 March 2005 – Page 2
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NewsWilkinson Eyre crosses into Europe
Wilkinson Eyre Architects has won its first major commission in France with a competition entry to build one of the longest new rail bridges in Europe with this environmentally-sensitive design.
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New country houses dont have to be modern, says Hill
Country houses of any architectural style are eligible for planning permission, planning minister Keith Hill has said.
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NewsStation controller
Terry Farrell & Partners has reaffirmed its dominance in the Far Eastern market after beating competition from a smaller London rival on two large train stations in China.
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Opinion
Chamber musings
A lot of empty blustering from George Ferguson regarding ethics, but he does not say what the RIBA would do if one of its members designed a concentration camp or torture chamber. I suspect that, as when it has happened in the past, nothing. Never mind, George, have another Mipim ...
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Liverpool steps in to save listed building
Liverpool City Council has for the first time bought a listed building to save it from ruin.
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TechnicalI wish Id done that...sustainable building
Robin Nicholson on Sauerbruch Hutton’s GSW Building in Berlin
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NewsDreamer or bruiser?
Ralph Erskine died last week. We asked those who worked with him on some of his best known projects to assess the architect and the man
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Lottery fund bows to timber pressure
The Heritage Lottery Fund this week agreed to only fund projects which use legal and sustainable sources of timber following a high-profile Greenpeace campaign.
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OpinionConcrete Boots
The GodfatherIs Graham Morrison turning into the Godfather of architecture? The signs are there: the soft but persuasive voice and the vice-like grip on the biggest and best jobs. So it should have been no surprise to see one half of the stratospherically successful Allies & Morrison thanked by Ed ...
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Review
On the bookshelf
1,000 Lights 1879-1959, edited by Charlotte & Peter Fiell. Taschen, £19.99.A sumptuous feast of lights, both lush and informative, arranged by designer for each of eight decades. Pictured right: carved wood and chandelier with opalescent shades, designed by Maurice Dufrene for Paul Watel, circa 1913The Complete Kagan: a Lifetime of ...
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TechnicalNew books on sustainability
Building with Straw: Design and Technology of a Sustainable Architecture, edited by Gernot Minke and Friedemann Mahlke. Birkhauser, 152pp. £30.50.We’ve seen what can be achieved with straw bales in Sarah Wigglesworth’s Straw Bale House, but how do you design with it? Building with Straw has some answers in this ...
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Official: Sixties estate risks gas blast collapse
Levitt Bernstein scheme on ice after collapse danger admitted at South London estate
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Bennetts sits Shakespeare test
Bennetts Associates last week won its largest public commission yet when it beat MacCormac Jamieson Prichard and Dublin firm O’Donnell & Tuomey to the £50 million transformation of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.
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ReviewBending over backwards
Kas Oosterhuis wants to use future technologies to create truly flexible buildings
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Opinion
Soapbox: Nurture students, not drive them away
I am on my soapbox to have a go at those unscrupulous, lazy practices that fail to respect the needs of their student staff.
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Job audit and new territories at Aukett
The chairman of newly formed practice Aukett Fitzroy Robinson has told BD of possible redundancies and also plans to expand into new territories such as healthcare and education.
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OpinionSheer arrogance
For too long now, I have read the pages of the architectural press and smiled at the arrogance of the so-called “trophy architects” who fill the pages. While the architecture varies from average to brilliant, the sheer arrogance rankles, to say the least.
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