All Building Design articles in 5 November 2004 – Page 2
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News
Campaign launched to save Cambridge school
Architects are to launch a campaign to save the Cambridge School of Architecture as alumni and current students expressed outrage over the university’s plans to scrap it.
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Cabe review role questioned
Witness tells investigation committee of former design watchdog chief’s concerns over review function
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OpinionConcrete boots
On shaky ground Tony Blair has tried manfully to stay mates with the environmental lobby, but he’s really gone and blown it now, judging by the reaction to his naming a road for the Prime Minister’s Better Public Building Award last week. Environmentalists are fuming, especially as its construction led ...
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Review
New on the bookshelf
The Architecture of The British Library at St Pancras, by Roger Stonehouse and Gerhard Stromberg. Spon Press, £65.Definitive account of Colin St John Wilson’s tour de force that was 35 years in the design and construction. Contributors include Richard MacCormac and former British Library chief executive Brian Lang.Treehouses of the ...
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Bleak future for iconic office
Future office design will focus far less on creating iconic forms such as the Gherkin and more on transforming existing interior spaces to suit changing work patterns.
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Opinion
The big squeeze
Cabe has launched its trenchant critique of housing design, but on closer inspection all it does is to reveal the superficiality of architectural ideas about this subject.
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Opinion
Place your bets
Regarding your article, “A fight to the death?” (News Analysis October 15), the image of two fighting dogs is very evocative, so is there anywhere I can put a tenner on the RIBA to win?
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News
Planning barrier lifted for Battersea Power Station
The government this week paved the way for construction to start next spring on the £1 billion redevelopment of Battersea Power Station, saying that it would not intervene on the project.
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Election stuns US architects
One of American architecture’s brightest firms threatened to quit the US on Wednesday after President George W Bush won a second term in office.
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Another director quits Alsops new practice
Another director has quit Alsop & Partners, the new practice formed by Will Alsop with investment from a venture capitalist.
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Adjayes Rocky Mountain high
David Adjaye has unveiled the first images of his new art museum in Denver, Colorado. The £8 million Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver will feature five galleries across three floors. Adjaye intends it to glow like a “beacon” at night as a result of a Laban-style translucent material suspended behind glass ...
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Lecturer lashes out at AA fiefdoms
School ‘structurally incapable’ of meeting Arb regulations; unit masters too dominant, former tutor claims
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400m PFI waste
BD investigation into the costs of government building projects spurs calls for reform
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TechnicalIn detail 29: Queen Mary Student Village, University of London
The largest residential block at the Westfield Student Village has an eight-storey concrete frame built with tunnel-form shuttering. Another word for shuttering is formwork, whereby a frame is constructed to provide support as the concrete hardens.
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News
Fees to replace Section 106
Under the proposals, outlined in a consultation document published this week, fees would be spent on amenities directly related to a scheme. Section 106 agreements, which typically provide affordable housing or community centres, have been criticised for not enhancing the scheme itself. The report recommends the fees but warns that ...
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Opinion
More, more, more
I had the good fortune to visit Venice recently and took the opportunity to take in the Biennale.
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