All Building Design articles in 29 October 2004 – Page 2
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News
Fresh flat-VAT plea made to chancellor
Construction economists this week made a fresh plea to chancellor Gordon Brown to reduce the 17.5% rate of VAT on repair and maintenance of buildings.
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NewsSeouls chameleon
The world’s largest electronic facade has been created at a department store in Seoul, South Korea.
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Twentieth Century Society seeks to save Islington school
A 1960s school in north London has been put forward for spot listing by the Twentieth Century Society.
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Building StudyCelestial vessel
Will O’Donnell & Tuomey’s remarkable Cork gallery deliver the work outside Ireland that the duo desires? Shane O’Toole reports. Photos by Morley von Sternberg
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News
Cash fears for culture buildings
The Victoria & Albert Museum will not commission an iconic piece of architecture to replace the dumped Daniel Libeskind “Spiral” extension.
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ReviewMaking fun of buildings
Is Cedric Price’s Fun Palace a suitable model for contemporary cultural needs? We report on a Berlin conference inspired by this visionary concept
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Opinion
Brutal gesture
I cannot see how Brisac Gonzalez’s brutal museum building got built (Works October 22).
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NewsBridge of numbers
Recently formed London-based practice IJP Corporation has won a design competition for a 280m cycle and pedestrian bridge at the Southern Ridges on the southern coast of Singapore.
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Opinion
Hitting a brick wall
Robert Booth (Editorial October 15) states that it is wasteful that 2.5 billion bricks are destroyed every year in the UK. New bricks cost about 4p each. If he would like to invest in reclaiming bricks and then attempt to sell them, he will find out the reason.James Doran, Herefordshire
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OpinionConcrete Boots
Suffolk punchFormer Tory government minister and champion of lifting planning restrictions on new country homes, John Gummer MP, was not interviewed for the position of Cabe chair earlier this month, and now we know why. Gummer has launched himself into the protection of his Suffolk constituents threatened with losing their ...
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News
Design not to blame for World Trade Centre towers collapse
A two-year, $16 million (£9 million) inquiry has ruled out design flaws as a cause of the collapse of the World Trade Centre towers on September 11, 2001.
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Opinion
Blame the budget
I suppose we’re lucky to get away with “hamfisted”, rather than “reckless”, “overweening” or “boorish”, from Gavin Stamp’s compendium of extravagant epithets (Works October 8).
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NewsCan designs like this... sober up Nottingham’s binge-capital culture?
The city says architects can make a difference. But will a crop of new projects really reform Nottingham’s image
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News
Backing for man-hour fee scales
The time taken to design a building rather than a percentage of construction costs could become the new way of measuring fees, under proposals for a new pan-European system.
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News
Dons dump architecture
Cambridge University set to close architecture school, while Architectural Association plans shake-up
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News
Shed war defeat for Edinburgh architect
An “absurd” planning inquiry has resulted in an Edinburgh architect being ordered to take down his garden shed.
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Opinion
Silver lining in Alsops cloud
One morning in late May, I met Will Alsop in the crow’s-nest office he occupies in his Battersea studio.
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NewsAlsop sells 40%
Turmoil continues as Alsop enters receivership, venture capitalist invests and design director quits
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TechnicalIn detail 28: Alpine House, Kew Gardens
The new glass house at Kew Gardens will use almost entirely passive systems to provide a controlled environment for the Royal Botanic Gardens’ alpine plant collection.
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