All Building Design articles in 26 Apr 2013 – Page 4
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NewsWelsh Streets Estate to be demolished despite Save's concern
Council gives go-ahead to appoint contractor for redevelopment of estate where Ringo Starr was born
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AnalysisFive facts about free schools
How do free schools get built? Is there work in free schools for architects like you? Find out with our quick guide and special report …
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OpinionPharmaceuticals for all but Foster
It appears ageist comments have slipped through the back door ( Boots April 19 ).
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OpinionEducation must include business
Architects need a good early grounding in business ( News April 19 ) in the hope that they do not undersell their skills, as is rampant at present.
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OpinionWolf Prize needs a wider context
Some of our most eminent architects ( News April 19 ) are taking a “moral stand” in reprimanding Eduardo Souto de Moura for accepting an award from Israel, notwithstanding its government’s “escalating war crimes” — though which alleged crimes, which war or which escalation they do not say.
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OpinionDiscourse is key to understanding
The final paragraph of your editorial is chilling: “But the question she [Margaret Thatcher] posed — what are architects for and what is it they do? — is one governments continue to ask, yet one the profession has still failed to adequately answer” ( Leader April 12 ).
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OpinionSchools fail to make the grade
It’s all very well talking about creativity and collaboration when designing schools ( Letters April 5 ), but all of this goes out of the window when we (teachers) are judged.
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OpinionProcurement is widening the gap
In the RIBA report Building Ladders of Opportunity the particular consequences of skewed UK procurement policy and practice were researched and evaluated.
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FeaturesFor the record
Thirty years after Pevsner’s death, we look back to his remarkable effort to document England’s notable buildings
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OpinionIs the RIBA doing enough for small practices?
A coherent voice for firms of all sizes, or not giving the underdogs the help they need?
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OpinionThe squeeze won’t ease any time soon
It will take more than EU rule changes to save architects from the hostility of our own government, says Denise Chevin
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OpinionSpace needs further exploration
The RIBA’s space standards campaign is failing to address the right targets, says Amanda Baillieu
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Building StudyMadinat As Sultan Qaboos, Oman, by Kamvari Architects
Mixed-use scheme in Muscat city centre neighbourhood will echo the design of old settlements in the region
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TechnicalBrent Civic Centre by Hopkins Architects
Hopkins Architects brings together a range of public services in an elegant structure crowned by a stunning ETFE and steel roof
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TechnicalWhere the embodied is buried
Upcoming changes to both Breeam and the building regulations are placing the embodied carbon of different structural solutions under the spotlight