All Building Design articles in 7 April 2006 – Page 2
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NewsYoung firm to design square at Dome site
Young practice Barr Gazetas is designing a new public space in north Greenwich the size of London's Leicester Square.
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Government pledges more measures to cut emissions
The government has pledged to launch new planning legislation to tackle climate change.
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Three practices win in Tipperary competition
Three practices have won a competition to masterplan a residential development next to Tipperary in Ireland.
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Opinion
Design codes: Yeah but no but... no
TV's Little Britain has given us a humourous tour of our landscape and the characters that inhabit it, with their social and cultural diversity. How do we respond to them when deciding how to develop new housing and townscapes? Can we accommodate our idiosyncrasies and celebrate our real little Britain?
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ReviewBringing a fresh palette of ideas
Collaboration between architects and artists is documented in a new book
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News‘Brighton Eye' proposed for pier site
Marks Barfield, architect of the London Eye, has unveiled plans for a 183m-high observation mast on the site of Brighton's West Pier.
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OpinionConcrete Boots
Money problemsMutterings have re-started over Will Alsop's chairmanship of the Architecture Foundation, which meets in a few weeks to discuss how to handle his latest career move. It's not simply that Alsop rarely shows up to trustees' meetings, it's the slightly awkward problem of having the foundation's public face fundraising ...
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NewsBlue-sky thinking comes down to earth
Projects like these might look shiny and new, but is the fashion for high-density towers taking us back to an uglier time? Ellen Bennett investigates whether the government's call for developers to ‘pile 'em high and sell 'em cheap' is creating problems for the future
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Study: Design codes best for large sites
Design codes can deliver better quality development and give greater certainty to the design and development processes, according to an evaluation of the government's coding pilots.
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NewsNew fire in Smithfield battle
Terry Farrell's study for English Heritage is ‘spin', claims City as it prepares to judge KPF planning application
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NewsMountain backdrop for Irish crescents
This spectacular housing scheme in the shadows of Irish mountain Croagh Patrick has been designed by Richard Murphy Architects.
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Opinion
Architecture falls from top of the class
It was only a matter of time before the government's ambitious city academy programme was dismantled.
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Protests fail to prevent approval of Leeds scheme
Controversial plans for the redevelopment of the Leeds Canal Basin have been approved by the city council, despite vehement opposition from the Leeds Civic Trust, English Heritage and Friends of the Earth.
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Opinion
Alsop opportunity
Cecil Balmond, the late Tony Fitzpatrick, and Peter Rice are three among numerous outstanding design engineers who have developed their careers within an established large practice - in their case Ove Arup. And such is the norm in most other construction disciplines, but not so architecture.
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Cities ‘leading the way against climate change'
Cities' planning and energy policies are the world's best defence against irreversible climate change, according to the second Solar Cities conference held this week in Oxford, which last month declared itself a solar city.
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LDA adds young firms to Plaistow shortlist
The London Development Agency has given its firm backing to young architects, insisting that two up-and-coming practices are on the shortlist to replace Herzog & de Meuron on a housing scheme in Plaistow, east London.
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Academies ‘dumbed down'
Partnerships for Schools to oversee city academies programme, with new emphasis on ‘value for money'
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