All Building Design articles in 31 August 2007 – Page 2
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News
Mies' Farnsworth House under water
One of the twentieth century’s most important buildings, Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House in Illinois, came within a foot-and-a-half of serious damage as a result of recent flooding.
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Features
Slideshow: Postcards from the Edge - Morecambe Promenade
Writer Ian Martin and photographer Adam Turtle blunder through the built environment looking for the bits that are odd or good or sad or licensed
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Features
Civil Justice Centre joins Carbuncle Cup longlist
Denton Corker Marshall's Manchester court building is nominated for the Carbuncle Cup
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Features
Price, Rudofsky and Dawber
September's competitions and offers exclusive to Book Club members
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News
Waugh Thistleton's timber tower wins planning
London’s Hackney Council has granted planning for Murray Grove Tower — a nine-storey timber structure which architect Waugh Thistleton says will be the world’s tallest timber residential building.
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News
P&HS puts on a show
P&HS Architects has submitted for planning its proposed regional agricultural centre at Harrogate’s famous Great Yorkshire Showground.
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Opinion
Reason to mock
Is it Boots’ imagination or are British firms’ designs for schemes overseas getting more and more surreal?
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Review
Miles from original
Sunderland and Southampton's joint North-South exhibition offers only old thoughts on modern living
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Opinion
Sample the planning menu
While the RIBA may manage to pull off a design review panel and make it work (News August 24), I would venture to predict that it will not have a long life.
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Opinion
Knock it off
It’s not that almost all the 47 practices shortlisted for the Olympic village are from London that we object to (News Analysis August 24).
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Opinion
Mr president, your in-tray...
There’s no shortage of campaigns on which RIBA’s Sunand Prasad could make his mark
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News
St Paul’s warned over human rights
Cathedral bosses urged to consider ethical implications of Chinese granite
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Opinion
Host the most
I call for a rethink of the Olympics for future hosts. Instead of one city absorbing all that the Games brings, perhaps it should be more of a para(city)c event, with regional cities more involved not only in the design, but also getting some form of parasitic venue with a ...
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News
RMJM tower jeopardises St Petersburg's world heritage status
Unesco threatens action over 396m Gazprom HQ
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Technical
Scaling new heights in zero-carbon housing
How practical is lightweight construction as a way of complying with the Code for Sustainable Homes?
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News
Presidential handover at the RIBA
As Jack Pringle hands over the helm we assess his presidency and offer some advice for Sunand Prasad. PLUS: Tell us what you think Prasad should do and we'll let him know your views
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News
Hampstead’s underground thinkers
European Urban Architecture has applied for planning permission for this three-bedroom, “subterranean” house in Hampstead, north London.
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News
Lewisham regeneration scheme goes to planners
A £250 million regeneration project masterplanned by Arup in south-east London has been submitted for planning.