All Building Design articles in 27 October 2006
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Opinion
Street life
I welcome BD’s interest in London’s bus infrastructure and its recognition of the role Transport for London plays in the city’s design heritage (News September 29).
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NewsIt’s a peach
This striking facade is part of David Chipperfield’s competition-winning design for a £70 million luxury apartment building for Atlanta, Georgia.
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Opinion
Poor image
I don’t know how I might feel, had I the misfortune to be the author of either of the two projects featured on the front page of BD (October 20).
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Opinion
Mistaken identity
It was nice to see a photo of Leonard Mannaseh’s kindly face in BD (October 20), even if the caption did say it was of Jim Cadbury Brown.
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Opinion
Ian Martin
My friend Tub Haagendas calls, and we put our heads together to design a second planet
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ReviewLittle Italy grows up
Folly village or the architecture of pleasure? Alan Powers is engaged by a book celebrating Portmeirion’s 80th anniversary
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NewsPut out to grass
Architect Andrew Wright Associates has beaten practices including DRMM and Jestico & Whiles to design a £15 million sports academy and park.
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Pelli rethink wins Paradise go-ahead
Just as Broadway Malyan’s Mann Island scheme was delayed yet again by Liverpool’s planners this week (see left), architect Cesar Pelli bowed to the heritage lobby and in so doing received consent for his residential scheme nearby.
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NewsFarrell’s Gateway triumph
Terry Farrell has won his battle to turn the Thames Gateway into a wetlands park stretching along the River Thames from London into Kent and Essex, with the government set to endorse his vision at next month’s Thames Gateway Forum.
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News
Olympic stadium ‘will be no white elephant’
The main Olympic stadium will not turn into an “expensive white elephant,” Olympic Delivery Authority chief executive David Higgins promised MPs this week.
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TechnicalIt’s time you knew the drill
Designers are set to face greater responsibility for assessing fire risk.
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Opinion
Down the tube
While welcoming Tim O’Toole’s pledge to return London Underground to the glory days of Frank Pick (News October 6) with stations as distinctive as churches, he seems only to be interested in the new if my local tube station, Arsenal, is anything to go by.
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News
DOH was ‘negligent’ in hospital programme
A leading doctor has accused the Department of Health of negligence in its multi-billion pound building programme.
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News
‘Stop making excuses and tackle diversity’
The profession needs to “stop making excuses” and tackle its lack of diversity, according to a fiery speech that reignited the debate on discrimination in architecture this week.
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NewsTaking the desert by storm
This is the latest design to burst forth from Foster & Partners — an “ultra-luxury” $2 billion (£1 billion) residential scheme for Egypt’s Red Sea Coast.