All Building Design articles in 6 October 2006 – Page 2
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TechnicalHelp cut George’s emissions
Does writer George Monbiot need to pay £20,000 to green-up his home? Elaine Knutt asked three architects to suggest alternatives
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Opinion
Cut the crap
Why does everyone get their knickers in a twist whenever the suggestion emerges that suburbs might work as environments for people to live in? (News September 29).
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NewsFarmhouse HQ for River Cottage
Satellite Architects is behind these designs for celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s new River Cottage HQ at Park Farm, Devon.
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Opinion
What we must learn from Copenhagen
Copenhagen has its share of yobs, drugs and drinking culture but is blessed with being a gentler and more tolerant city than many of its European counterparts — and much more so than some of our own metropolitan centres and “uburbs”.
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News
New twist in saga of Stonehenge visitor centre
English Heritage’s tortuous struggle for a new visitor centre at Stonehenge descended into farce last week when it withdrew its approved planning application for a £65 million scheme by Denton Corker Marshall.
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OpinionCapital idea
Shouldn’t your magazine be re-named “London Interiors” (with a token provincial scheme thrown in as a guilt trip)?Paul Gregory, Liverpool
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News
Cabe knocks fail to dent Cube
Ken Shuttleworth’s landmark Birmingham development, Cube at the Mailbox, received planning despite mixed comments from a Cabe design review, it emerged this week.
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News
Founder members sought for Green Building Council
The UK’s Green Building Council is about to be formally launched — and founder members are being sought.
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Building StudyBrunswick Centre refurbishment by Patrick Hodgkinson
Now that the Brunswick Centre’s winter gardens, concrete walkways and shops have been remodelled by the original architect, Patrick Hodgkinson, with Levitt Bernstein, this modernist icon is ready to face a new era.
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NewsHadid branches out
This is the Pierres Vives building which has been designed for the administration of France’s Herault sub-region by Zaha Hadid Architects. It is to start on site in Montpellier at the end of this year.
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NewsOver the border
Danish architects may be hampered by a restrictive high-rise policy in Copenhagen, but on the other side of the 16km long Øresund Bridge in Malmö, Sweden, CF Møller Architects has won a competition to design the town’s second skyscraper.
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News
Shared surfaces are ‘death traps’ for blind
Shared surface schemes which remove boundaries between pedestrians and vehicles have been attacked in a report by the charity Guide Dogs for the Blind, which describes them as “death traps”.
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Opinion
Misplaced blame
In my letter published in BD September 22, I expressed concerns I have since discovered to be entirely untrue, concerning the selection of an architect for a project that our practice was keen to secure.
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News
Bishop promises to ensure transparency
London’s new design director, Peter Bishop, has pledged to use “transparent and open” appointment processes for architects working with Design for London, the new body incorporating the Mayor of London’s Architecture & Urbanism Unit and the design arms of the LDA and Transport for London.
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NewsBirmingham skyscraper could signal high-rise era
Tall buildings in Birmingham are set to reach new heights following a landmark planning decision last week.
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BD's Carbuncle Cup: Call for nominations
As the Golden Raspberries are to the Oscars so the Carbuncle Cup is to the Stirling Prize.
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FeaturesBackground feature: A place for Maputo’s children
Architects for Aid has been dispatching architects to some of the world’s most embattled places to assist with disaster relief and reconstruction. Zoë Blackler travelled to Mozambique to report on a project to build a brighter future for the city’s street children
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