All Building Design articles in 31 July 2009 – Page 4
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NewsGlas Architects steams ahead with new café at former station
Glas Architects has won planning permission for a 75sq m café pavilion on a 3m-wide site opposite London’s Southwark Tube station
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NewsDesign audit for 100s of 'shovel ready' schemes
HCA to give £1bn to ‘kickstart’ housing projects but only if they pass Cabe quality test
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OpinionTrue vision
David Nixon’s article (News Analysis July 17) is not only well informed and relevant, but inserts a recent and precious vision of the future by Jan Kaplicky
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Opinion
Tipping point
The contrast between BD articles “Adjaye brought to brink of insolvency” and “Gimme shelter” (News & Works July 24) could hardly have illustrated better the tipping point between the old world and the new order at which architecture finds itself
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Opinion
Oakus pocus
So what exactly is so transformatory about Kevin McCloud’s new development (News July 24)?
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OpinionMasterplan for the future
Stirling has already swayed from its origins, so why not include masterplans?
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OpinionShould a masterplan be eligible for the Stirling?
David Page says academics need to open their eyes and look at the bigger picture, while Will Alsop is adamant that the Stirling Prize should be for a building
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Opinion
Doublethink
The proposition at the epicentre of modernist architecture is that, to be worthy, a design should reflect its time, its zeitgeist
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OpinionPraying for Robin Hood Gardens' demolition
Could it be that the final nail in the coffin for Robin Hood Gardens is hammered home not by regeneration officials at Tower Hamlets council but by Allah?
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Opinion
Clarification
In our story “Adjaye brought to brink of insolvency” (News July 24) we quoted RIBA Director of Professional Services Richard Brindley as saying that “Ojeu rules for all public contracts say that bidders can’t be in any form of insolvency”
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OpinionCapturing the end of an era
Only a small part of Bill Mitchell’s article is correct (Opinion July 24). The Kodachrome process was largely unknown in England until the late 1940s — most of the first colour images of England were taken by American servicemen or by expensive fashion magazines
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OpinionShould we love or hate fascist buildings?
We condemn buildings built by fascists because of their political history rather than their architectural worth
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Opinion
Barracks battle
While I sympathise with RSHP’s difficulties over the Chelsea Barracks scheme, aren’t we fighting the wrong battle with the wrong person in calling for a boycott?
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Opinion
Carbon baloney
I think both architects and the specialist media are still paying lip service to the carbon-neutral issue. You need to get your act together if you are serious about this
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ReviewScience and sensibility - exploring architecture as mathematical practice
A new book and exhibition show how England’s Renaissance transformed architecture
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OpinionArchitects must expand their horizons
The profession can learn a lot from the TED model of thinking outside the box
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TechnicalAAIS pumps up the drama
An inflatable extension to a German theatre, designed by a team from the AA’s new Interprofessional Studio, had to overcome the attentions of a concerned local authority
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News
Class of 2009: Top six graduating diploma students
Class of 2009: Top six graduating diploma students