All Building Design articles in 26 November 2004 – Page 2
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News
Clissold trouble-shooter cashes in
Troubleshooting practice Bickerdike Allen has sparked controversy after being appointed to resolve problems with the Clissold Leisure Centre that it identified in the first place.
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Last-ditch demo to save Cambridge school
An “11th-hour” fight to save Cambridge University’s school of architecture got under way this week as students announced plans for a march through the city and revealed thousands have already signed a petition of protest.
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NewsCabe joins row on university funding
Cabe has demanded changes to how schools of architecture are funded because it fears that a spate of school closures could lead to a critical shortage of design skills needed to deliver ambitious government housing targets.
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ReviewWaxing Brazilian
Thomas Muirhead enjoys a book on the beauty and tragedy of Brazil’s architecture
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Opinion
Bravo Cabe
Croydon councillor Adrian Dennis (Letters November 12) calls for a “root-and-branch shake-up” of Cabe and criticises it for being “cliquey” and a “gentleman’s club”.
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NewsBranching out in Tokyo
A Toyo Ito-designed building for the Italian shoe and handbag brand TOD in Tokyo has been completed. The exterior of the building is made distinctive by 300mm concrete structural elements which form a lattice pattern inset with glass. The practice has likened it to the “branching diagram of a tree”.It ...
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OpinionConcrete Boots
Comic inspirationThe headquarters of the Prince’s Foundation in London’s fashionable Hoxton is well stocked with books, but a closer look at the collection reveals some surprising titles. For example, the foundation is the last place one would expect to see graphic novels by controversial and often lewd comic-book artist Robert ...
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Boost for Bracknell
The Richard Rogers Partnership’s £750 million regeneration project for Bracknell town centre has been entered for outline planning permission. The 36ha project includes new shops, offices, leisure facilities and more than 1,000 homes. Chapman Taylor is working on the proposed new retail facilities. The project also features a new covered ...
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Late change to Housing Bill boosts energy efficiency
The Housing Bill has been amended at the last minute to include a target to improve the energy efficiency of English homes by 20% by 2010.
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Consultant on BedZed does U-turn
One of the main players behind the award-winning environmental housing project BedZed has turned its back on the use of innovative architecture to help slow climate change.
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Building StudyRock of the bay
The Wales Millennium Centre is the jewel in Cardiff Bay’s regeneration, but can it perform?
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Opinion
Raising the bar
There have been continuing controversial issues relating to the Temple Bar, one of which is whether or not it is Wren’s work (News Analysis November 19).
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Ian Simpson takes over from Foster on South Bank scheme
Ian Simpson Architects is working on a “large mixed-use scheme” on London’s South Bank after a Foster & Partners design for the same site was scrapped.
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Foster & Partners to lead team on Arizona university scheme
Norman Foster is set to touch down in Arizona to design another major university project.
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Statistics undersell architects
The RIBA is set to show that government estimates of architects’ contribution to the UK economy are as much as £1 billion too low.
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ReviewAlteration images
Robert Adam’s acclaimed designs for the sculpture galleries at Newby Hall, the Yorkshire country house, are celebrated in a new exhibition of architectural drawings at Leeds City Art Gallery.
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NewsLets go round again
A £100,000 sculpture on a roundabout was officially unveiled to the public last week. The 11m-tall sculpture, by artist Rob Olins, includes a laser. It stands on a roundabout at the entrance to Haverhill from Cambridge.
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