All Building Design articles in 25 November 2005
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OpinionSuzi Towel
As minister for the media, I was cross to see my husband’s dealings with those Iranian businessmen all over the papers
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NewsStockton-on-sea
RyderHKS has released masterplan images of a £300 million mixed-use redevelopment of a former industrial area on the river Tees in Stockton.
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Opinion
Thermal solution
One route to reducing pollution in some smoke-laden Chinese cities (Solutions October 21) is to exploit the geothermal energy in volcanic areas, such as the hot water that has bubbled up to the surface at Xingcheng in Liaoning Province in north-east China since the Tang dynasty.
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ReviewRidley Scott and me
All films are essentially about escapism, emotional strife and a crushing triumph against the odds.
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Opinion
Necessary quality
I was very interested to read Anthony Thistledton’s negative comments on quality assurance that appeared in the article on Ojeu questionnaires (News analysis November 18).
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News
Liverpool snubs PFI schools
A political row has broken out over the government’s ambitious £2.2 billion secondary school building programme after Liverpool City Council raised major doubts about the initiative.
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NewsA Spiracle in Leeds
Make and Carey Jones Architects have revealed designs for St Paul’s Quarter in Leeds for developers HBG Properties and Barratt Homes.
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Opinion
Hoary? True story
Far from being a “hoary myth” that the Nazis closed the Bauhaus (Letters November 18), in fact they closed it twice: at Dessau, September 1932; and its emaciated privatised form at Berlin, April 1933 (Frank Whitford’s book, Bauhaus, has a photo of police loading the students into trucks).
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News
Olympic hope for small firms
New Olympic Delivery Authority chairman says he will take action to remedy bias towards large practices
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NewsPrescott: We’ve failed
Exclusive: Deputy PM says design for regeneration lacks imagination; promises rethink with Rogers’ help
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Embankment rejuvenation
London’s Victoria Embankment could be transformed into a promenade to rival the South Bank under a vision drawn up by MacCormac Jamieson Prichard for the Greater London Authority.
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Opinion
Peripheral edge
While I applaud BD’s 50/50 campaign, everything I have read so far misses one crucial point: if you employ women architects you get better-quality architecture. The reason is simple, in all things in life yin and yang produce a balanced harmony.So it is in architecture — women experience space differently, ...
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NewsA mix of styles down on the farm
This family home, proposed for land next to a brick grade II listed Georgian farmhouse in Dorking, Surrey, aims to balance traditional materials and vernacular architecture with modern detailing and clean lines.The £350,000 development, which recently won planning permission, is by local practice Stedman Blower Architects.The new 340sq m scheme, ...
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Opinion
Don’t leave it to the housebuilders
Cabe has been caning the housebuilders again. Zoë Blackler (Leader November 18) doled out predictable advice about good design not being an optional extra — the sort of stuff I wrote in the eighties.
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Opinion
A lesson in division from Moshe Safdie
When the Israeli/Canadian architect Moshe Safdie visited the UK earlier this month to deliver the RIBA’s annual discourse, he showed an impressive body of work around the world.