All Building Design articles in 30 September 2005
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Building StudyTectonic soup
Wilkinson Eyre’s National Waterfront Museum in Swansea combines an astonishing range of architectural types. Could Kester Rattenbury make sense of the whole?
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ReviewIn search of perfection
A utopian novel about a crazed architect provides the inspiration for an exhibition at Chelsea College of Art.
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OpinionThe Leaning Tower of Pisa and me
I’d been visiting friends in Pisa since the 1980s, and then I had a fling with an Italian architect who lived in Pisa, who introduced me to the engineers working to stabilise the leaning tower.
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Opinion
Style is irrelevant
Regarding your article “Adam’s neo-classicism faces public style trial” (News September 16), I live very close to the proposed development and am opposed to it.Much of the aesthetics is a matter of taste, and so I make no comment on what is good design or on other work by Robert ...
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NewsNew edition
Shepheard Epstein Hunter’s extension to Denys Lasdun’s Central Library at the University of East Anglia has been completed in time for the start of the academic year.
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John Drew leaves Foster for Viñoly
Senior Foster & Partners architect John Drew is leaving the practice to join of Rafael Viñoly Architects.
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Former Nightingale director joins US firm
American practice nbbj has recruited a former director of Nightingale Associates in an attempt to boost its profile in the healthcare sector.
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Opinion
When in Milan, design for Milan
Italian architects protested this month at the proliferation of foreign architecture appearing in their own country. What they are saying should make an elite minority of British architects stop and think.
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Opinion
Defending defence
Further to your article “group calls for boycott of design show” (News September 16), we feel it is important that there is a balanced debate and that any errors of fact are corrected. Reed Exhibitions would argue that defence and security sectors play a vital role in preserving peace and ...
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Rising generation debates star factor
Star architects of tomorrow can be marked out in their youth by their international approach and ability to build urban communities in a local context, says the author of a new book on architecture’s rising generation.
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NewsChipperfield gives a Figge
David Chipperfield Architects’ Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa, opened last week.
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NewsAn open and shut case
This timber-clad residential and commercial scheme in Harlow, Essex, received planning permission last week.
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