All Building Design articles in 29 July 2005 – Page 2
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News
Growing down the local
Worn-out workers were able to escape the city blues this week, thanks to the efforts of the Office for Subversive Architecture, which created the Hoegaarden Urban Oasis at Broadgate Circus in London.
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Review
No place like a geodesic dome
Buckminster Fuller combined bourgeois attitudes with glimmers of great wisdom.
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Opinion
A lot to learn from embracing diversity
Since the July 7 tragedy, there has been much discussion about what makes London, my city, great. Architects need to be a part of that conversation, not just by studying the physical context of our environment, but by delving into the social context, too. This is not about understanding architecture, ...
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Review
Reined in by a lack of direction
The AA’s show suggests it has failed to play to its strengths.
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News
Dilapidated listed gems threatened
New English Heritage guidelines could deny many historic buildings listing protection if they are in poor condition, and give greater authority to calls for some buildings to be delisted, leading conservationists fear.
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News
Darkhorse Holyrood deserves the nod
Courage and invention must give Miralles’s swansong the edge in the Stirling race over Bennetts PFI route
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Opinion
Out of control?
I read with interest about the Bridge Academy (News July 15). It raised some fundamental issues: how do you teach multiple classes in an open-plan environment? How do you control multiple groups of pupils externally on the “terraces”? And if spaces are deemed as breakout zones attributed to each faculty, ...
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Opinion
Cold discomfort
I was saddened to read of Hopkins Architects’ reaction to our success in the British Antarctic Survey competition (News July 22). A review of the assessors’ report shows that our design won on both architectural and technical merit. The fact that we were the closest competitor to the budget, I ...
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News
Tricorn replacement ugly and clumsy
Proposals for a £300 million development by architect Chapman Taylor in Portsmouth have been slammed by the local civic society and a former architect at Hampshire County Council.
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Opinion
A lost cause
Tessa Jowell’s refusal to delist the Commonwealth Institute building brings to the forefront the subject of the preservation of similar buildings representative of the considerable intellectual achievements of post-war construction.Tightly designed to a very specific brief and lightly constructed within a ridiculously low budget, the building has proved a commercial ...
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News
Terror jinx as practice caught up in three incidents
Three Shepheard Epstein Hunter staff members were caught up in last week’s terror activity in London, just two weeks after practice architect Renato Pimenta witnessed the bus blast in Tavistock Square.
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Building Study
First Look: Modernism captures the castle
A striking residential development surrounding a turn-of-the-century castle in Swansea has been revealed by Holder Mathias Architects.
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Building Study
Holiday campo
With a strong list of celebrated architects signed up, the Corte Velho holiday development in the Algarve is breaking the mould of Portugal’s conventional resorts.
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News
Time called on Fuller-inspired South Pole dome
A geodesic dome on the South Pole built by one of Buckminster Fuller’s students is to be demolished to make way for a new US research facility.
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News
Bristol fashion
Lab Architecture Studio has unveiled the first image of its £15 million proposed Museum of Bristol.
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Opinion
Concrete Boots
FAB to the rescueLast week Boots speculated that Hopkins’ design for a new research station at the South Pole may have been inspired by the At-At Walkers of the Star Wars films. Now we can reveal Hugh Broughton’s competition-winning scheme was inspired by a more home-grown science-fiction machine: Thunderbird II, ...
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News
Bennetts library is Stirling favourite
Bennetts Associates’ Brighton library is the bookies’ favourite to win this year’s coveted Stirling Prize, but architects contacted by BD this week were rooting for Zaha Hadid.
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