All Building Design articles in 26 January 2007 – Page 2
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News
Public procurement to take in long-term costs
A new era of high-quality public architecture beckons after a government body which oversees a staggering £64 billion of public spending on the public estate ruled that the long-term costs of buildings — such as maintenance and energy use — must be taken into account.
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News
Foster emails clients to say: relax, I’m still in charge
The world’s most famous architect Norman Foster took the unusual step of emailing staff and clients this week to set out his plans for the future of his business.
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News
RTPI slams call to relax planning regulations
Little support for right-wing think-tank’s recommendations
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News
Broughton team wins Kent museum contest
Hugh Broughton Architects has beaten competition from practices such as Atkins and Featherstone Associates to triumph in a RIBA competition for a gallery extension in Kent.
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News
Jowell’s search for new heritage boss goes on
The Department for Culture Media & Sport will readvertise the post of English Heritage chair after culture secretary Tessa Jowell rejected two leading candidates.
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Review
A jump towards the big time
M2R opened this year’s Winter Nights lecture series with an assured performance.
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News
Battling for zero carbon
Architectural practice Ink Design has applied for planning permission to convert four second world war gun emplacements into this striking zero-carbon scheme.
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Opinion
How to sell carbon awareness to Dubai
Imagine the following two events happening in the same week: a structure destined to become the world’s tallest building reaches 100 storeys, and a nearly complete 34-storey tower catches fire leading to rooftop rescues by helicopter and the deaths of four workers. If this was the UK, there would be ...
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Technical
Refurbishment: Glenn Howells converts a Victorian warehouse into an art gallery
Glenn Howells Architects’ conversion of a 19th century listed warehouse in Portsmouth into a modern and flexible art gallery nurtures both old and new.
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News
Erskine’s Ark is rebuilt as Byker wins listing
The legacy of legendary architect Ralph Erskine received a double boost this week as his famous Byker Estate in Newcastle was listed and work began on restructuring the interior of his Ark office in west London.
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News
Colchester’s cultural quarter seeks architect
Colchester Borough Council has launched a competition to find an architect for the town’s new cultural quarter.
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News
The hills are alive...
Plasma Studio admits its Esker Haus in the South Tyrol is “parasitic.” The self-contained residential unit is built on top of a 1960s house, initially adopting its host’s structure then gradually morphing into its own form.
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Building Study
Sint Lucas Art Academy, Netherlands by Fat
Kester Rattenbury enjoys Fat’s reworking of a Dutch art school, but wonders whether the practice’s quirkiness is a cover for something more serious.
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Opinion
Responsibility for 60s falls on many
If Simon Jenkins wants a “Truth & Reconciliation Commission” (News January 12) to apologise for the housing crimes of the 1960s then he will need to cast his net wider and catch in it more than just members of the RIBA.
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News
£450m deal boosts Benoy’s Indian portfolio
Benoy has won a contract to design three mixed-use market city developments in Hyderabad, Chennai and Bangalore in India, and has signed a memorandum of understanding to design a chain of pan-Indian hotels.
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News
100 public spaces halved
Exclusive: Peter Bishop sets out priorities for Design for London’s £2.5 million budget
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