All Building Design articles in 30 October 2009 – Page 3
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News
New lifeline for 1870s orphanage
One of Preston’s most important Victorian buildings has been thrown a lifeline after campaigners highlighted its deterioration
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NewsPopulous arena in for planning
Populous is to submit an outline planning application today for its £55 million Leeds Arena project
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News
Public launch for market schemes
Plans by Foster & Partners and Neil Tomlinson Architects for the redevelopment of London’s New Covent Garden Market site will be revealed in a series of public meetings next month
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NewsRIBA guide under fire for omitting fee graphs
The RIBA has been forced to defend its latest A Client’s Guide to Engaging an Architect after several members criticised its decision to remove fee charts
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Opinion
Solid structures
Not only was structural engineering (Letters October 16) part of the AA’s syllabus in the 1940s and 1950s, back in the 1960s (and of course before and after that golden age) it comprised an important part of the architecture syllabus at Edinburgh College of Art
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ReviewRetrospective on the Tyne
Lit & Phil’s exhibition is a fascinating examination of T Dan Smith’s part in creating Newcastle
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OpinionPolyark is on the right road
The issues Cedric Price’s student project addressed in the 1970s are still important to architecture schools today
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Opinion
Some key points
Your report on designs for the new Tottenham Court Road station (News October 16) calls it “the first of three key interchange stations in the Crossrail project”. Three?
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ReviewReturning hero
David Chipperfield brings his triumphal procession of international work to the UK for the first time at the Design Museum
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FeaturesThe stadt the Germans were in
Twenty years on from the fall of the Berlin Wall, the site of the Gropiusstadt skyscraper city still provides a stark reminder of the past
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OpinionVenice dilemma
Word reaches Boots that the director of next year’s Venice Architecture Biennale is soon to be appointed. This time round the biennale authorities have set themselves a triple challenge: they are looking for an architect of international standing who also happens to be a woman and also a non-European
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OpinionWe need to design in four dimensions
The Copenhagen summit is over after two weeks but buildings last for centuries
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OpinionCorrection
Last week’s news item on Project Orange’s forthcoming extension to the Moran Hotel in Chiswick was unfortunately accompanied by an image of the existing building.
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TechnicalThin metal cladding is the shape of things to come
Unveiled recently at the Building Centre, John Gould’s Formtexx has developed a revolutionary process that will enable double curvature metal panels for facades to be produced at a fraction of the cost
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Opinion
Goodbye to Berlin
“Welcome to Germany”... “Berlin Boost” (Letters October 23) — the navel-gazers put one in mind of the incomparable Mort Sahl, when contemplating the build quality of the VW Beetle: “How did they lose?”
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Opinion
Still badly paid
The RIBA needs to be doing more to get a standard fee level agreed between architectural practices. This process should not involve clients at all
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OpinionDoes too much consultation inhibit great architecture?
Yes, tough decisions can be necessary, says Alex Lifschutz; while Anna Minton argues that democracy means the people affected must have a say
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OpinionGraphs belong to another era
I must admit I was surprised to learn that some practices still use the fee survey graph to calculate fees. Removing this from the RIBA A Client’s Guide to Engaging an Architect will surely be beneficial to architects and clients alike
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OpinionAge of margarine classicism
People might not have noticed the difference between margarine and butter in those old ads, but they do see the difference between traditional and modern
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OpinionAD addendum
For the record, Monica Pidgeon (News: obituary September 25) didn’t publish Rem Koolhaas: that was Haig Beck in 1977, after she had left Architectural Design
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