All Building Design articles in 25 May 2007 – Page 2
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Web resource to save landfill
A free “materials dating” website for the east of England will now cover Yorkshire too as a precursor to a hoped-for national roll-out.
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London joins retrofit programme
London has joined 14 other leading cities to sign up to a ground-breaking initiative backed by former US president Bill Clinton to help improve buildings’ energy performance.
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OpinionThe route to quality housing
I read with interest your articles on the Williams Report (May 18). It is a shame that the views of council officers were not obtained, particularly design officers, because they are very much part of the process. It is a challenge to raise the bar of the housing industry and ...
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NewsManchester’s Simpson is reaching for the heights
Ian Simpson has been asked by developer Albany Crown to add an extra 10 storeys to his approved 44-storey design for its Albany tower in Manchester. The extra height would make it the city’s tallest building.
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NewsA hole in its heart
Zaha Hadid Architects’ latest project is this 21-storey commercial and retail development in Dubai.
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TechnicalLooking for the green light
Lighting is a greedy user of energy, and public projects can be particularly heavy consumers. But many lighting designers are in fact trailblazing the use of low-energy technology
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FeaturesGibberd’s picturesque polluter
The so-called ‘Cathedral of the Vale’ was the UK’s fourth biggest emitter of carbon dioxide
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Shanghai expo list revealed
Six leading practices have been short-listed by the Foreign Office to design the British Pavilion for the Shanghai World Expo in 2010.
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Education ‘not good enough’
A major Scottish practice has urged the RIAS to improve the quality of education at architecture schools after admitting it is offering its own training for newly qualified architects who are not up to practice standard.
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Opinion
Winding down
Star speaker Will Alsop was in a playful mood at Friday’s All Planned Out conference at the Building Centre.
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NewsHRK to develop world hospitality
Anglo-Irish firm HKR has appointed hotel specialist Bernard Lee as director-in-charge of resorts, hotels and leisure.
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ReviewGrand designs that left a legacy
Far from being self-indulgent dabblers, amateurs have fuelled innovative design.
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NewsMonkey Puzzle launches Scottish design festival
Scotland’s Six Cities Design Festival has kicked off in style with the opening of Aberdeen’s Monkey Puzzle Pavilion.
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NewsGreen light for Dalston tower
Waugh Thistleton’s 66-unit residential scheme for Ramsgate Street in Dalston, east London, has received planning permission.
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OpinionCzech mate
The campaign against Future Systems’ proposed Prague Library got personal last week after a Czech magazine quoted Jan Kaplicky’s helpful remark that he was not homosexual, Jewish, English or rich, but just a Slav from undeveloped Eastern Europe.
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Gehry scheme crosses last hurdle
Frank Gehry’s plans for the King Alfred site in Hove are all but certain to go ahead after the Government Office for the South East opted not to ask communities secretary Ruth Kelly to call in the scheme.
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NewsCricklewood landmark
Carey Jones Architects has submitted plans for this 1.4ha mixed-use development intended to become a north London landmark.
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NewsMilton Court reprieve as City planners reject replacement
Moves to demolish the first block built at the Barbican complex by Chamberlin Powell & Bonn have been put on hold after a £100 million redevelopment plan by David Walker Architects failed to win planning approval.
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OpinionThree cheers for nostalgic starchitects
A local vernacular is ousting the Gulf trend for mega- design, and very welcome it is too
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