All Building Design articles in 3 December 2004 – Page 2
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NewsHope springs for Cambridge
The battle over architecture at Cambridge University took a dramatic turn this week in favour of the coalition of students and architects fighting to save the prestigious department.
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Sorrell tipped to be next Cabe chairman
The next chairman of the Commission for Architecture & the Built Environment will be named “imminently” and a senior government source has tipped former Design Council chairman John Sorrell for the job.
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Opinion
A bumpy ride to the promised land
It felt like the start of something. The Docklands Light Railway was festooned in “Back the Bid: London 2012” graphics and left the City of London destined for Custom House — the aptly named station where Docklands really becomes the Thames Gateway.
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Opinion
Concrete Boots
Gender defenderBD’s glittering Architect of the Year Awards at the London Hilton on Tuesday took a satisfyingly political turn. De Rijke Marsh Morgan’s Sadie Morgan told the assembled masses that her award for best new practice was one in the eye for the male majority, which was well said given ...
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Review
New on the bookshelf
Architecture as Signs and Systems for a Mannerist Time, by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. Belknap Harvard, HB, 288pp, £19.Venturi and Scott Brown look back over their influential ideas and buildings in a personal retrospective spanning nearly 40 years.On Tour with Renzo Piano by Renzo Piano. Phaidon, HB, ...
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NewsBath with a view
Bath-based Nash Partnership has submitted a planning application for 11 town houses for an inner-city courtyard site in Bath.
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Ellipse axed in face of opposition
Grimshaw’s proposed £30 million extension of the Royal College of Art has been abandoned amid fears that defending the scheme against opposition will prove too expensive.
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Aukett close to merger with Fitzroy Robinson
Aukett’s quest to merge with another practice appears nearly over after it confirmed it was negotiating with Fitzroy Robinson.
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Ho, hey! Architectures here to stay
“An Architect is for Life, Not just for Christmas,” read one of the drier placards held aloft in the bright sunlight at Cambridge on Monday.
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Opinion
Pecularities of architecture
Your coverage of the problems in architectural education brings out clearly the inherent weakness of the relationship between universities and government, which threatens to close more schools of architecture.
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ReviewRadar: Anna Liu
Books Adolescence: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. Pre-architecture school: Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. Post-architecture school: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzsche. More recently, Emergence by Steven Johnson.Music Rapture by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. His voice transcends all boundaries of gender, language, and religion. As an artist he is ...
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Opinion
Research: Holy Grail or Achill
Why all the hand-wringing about the poor research performance of UK architecture schools?
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Hodder faces £5m Clissold legal claim
The legal claim against Hodder Associates over the troubled Clissold Leisure Centre in north London is worth £5 million, lawyers for Hackney council revealed in court last week.
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TechnicalIn detail 33: Queen’s Road Com
The Queens Road Community Centre provides a Sure Start nursery, a crèche, a lifelong learning and employment training centre for adults, meeting rooms and a multi-purpose hall in a socially deprived area of east London.
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C20 Society fears for listed tube stations
The companies responsible for maintaining London’s underground lines are ignoring heritage issues, the Twentieth Century Society claimed this week.
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