All Building Design articles in 5 November 2004
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TechnicalVirtuous vacations
Traditional African methods are the star of Cullum & Nightingale’s eco-resort
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News
Spotcheck
North-eastSunderland project Plans by Durham practice Howarth Litchfield for a £300 million redevelopment of one of Sunderland’s industrial blackspots have been submitted to City of Sunderland Council. The 36ha Riverside Park proposals, which will include 1,500 new homes, offices, shops, a school and sports ground, are by developer O&H Group ...
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ReviewA wealth of Nouveau riches
A European touring exhibition seeks to revive interest in this style
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Opinion
Memorial of mud
I wonder if Tony Fretton had visited the Diana memorial lately he would still consider it “a serene and beautiful piece of work” (Letters October 22).I visited it last Wednesday at about 12.30pm. There were some 20 visitors wandering aimlessly within the confines of a temporary fence. Fretton would now ...
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NewsMaking new school rules
Five years ago US architects founded a high school for architecture. We went to see if it worked
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Opinion
Lost for words
The architectural profession is sexist enough without headlines such as “Backing for man-hour fee scales” (News October 29). This is just lazy ladguage.Peter Morris, London
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NewsLessons in light
Deborah Saunt David Hills Architecture has unveiled images of its school in Sheffield which will unite the St Johns Church of England School and St Oswalds Roman Catholic School in a new building on the Manor Estate near the city centre.
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Opinion
Put in the hours
Flipping marvellous. No sooner than I stop charging hourly rates for domestic projects because most people don’t want to pay as much per hour as I pay my car mechanic, than I’m told that all architecture fees may soon have to be based on time.
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Opinion
System that haemorrhages millions
Pointing out problems with the Private Finance Initiative is as easy as shooting fish in a barrel, but that doesn’t mean we don’t bother.
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Opinion
Queens royal seal a green turning point
It has been a good autumn so far for establishment endorsement of the environmental agenda.
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NewsHague goes under
A transport project in the Hague by Rem Koolhaas’s Office of Metropolitan Architecture has opened. The €234 million (£162 million) Souterrain project includes a new tramway tunnel, two new underground tramway stations and a parking garage.
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Opinion
A united front on tropical timber
Your report (News October 22) gave the unfortunate impression that the RIBA and English Heritage were at odds over the use of certified timbers. This is untrue. We are as one on the issue of the use of tropical hardwoods. We start with the premise that we strongly support limiting ...
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News
Fourth Grace warehouse win
Following news that alternative plans for a winter garden and museum to replace Alsop’s Cloud are struggling to get funding, Liverpool can take solace in the fact that a small 19th century warehouse looks set to be reconstructed on a corner of the Fourth Grace site.
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NewsFilling the gap
Hawkins Brown has unveiled images of a £9 million mixed-use scheme on City Road in east London. The development will include housing, office space, retail facilities and a restaurant, and is the first project by Iconic, a joint venture between developers Londonewcastle and Rugby Estates. Londonewcastle director Robert Soning said ...
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NewsFallen Isokon revived
Avanti Architects’ £2.4 million renovation of modernist landmark the Isokon Flats in the London Borough of Hampstead is almost complete.
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Building StudyDigging the East End scene
Feilden Clegg Bradley’s student residences at Queen Mary, University of London, join a pantheon of successful housing experiments
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News
Codes are ‘eco timebomb’
BedZed architect warns ‘rigid’ design codes will create Poundbury mark II and environmental catastrophe
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News
McBains Cooper in church deal
A British firm has won a commission to design churches for one of the fastest-growing Christian churches in the world.