All Building Design articles in 9 June 2006 – Page 2
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NewsStarters orders for Olympic design panel
Cabe commissioners were set to rubber-stamp the names of the Olympics design review panel as BD went to press on Wednesday.
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ReviewHidden depths
Ben van Berkel's RIBA lecture last week and a UN Studio monograph provide an opportunity to appraise this innovative practice's work. Kester Rattenbury reports
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NewsMake mine a Danish
Danish practice Schmidt Hammer Lassen narrowly beat O'Donnell & Tuomey to win the competition to design a £55 million library for the University of Aberdeen.
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Opinion
Quality course
Gordon Murray does a grave disservice to the department of architecture at the University of Strathclyde (Letters April 28). Despite recent problematic management of the department (soon to be remedied by a new professorial appointment), it enjoyed an international reputation equal at least to that of the best European schools. ...
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Smart PFI fails to convince
Health and education departments reject RIBA's model to bring design forward in the tender process
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Opinion
Quality control
Recent articles and correspondence have stated that architects from outside the EU have to pay £2,000, pass a 45 minute interview and sit a part III examination to join the register. This is misleading.
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OpinionCommonwealth Institute must stay
We disagree with BD (Leader June 2) that the Commonwealth Institute "would not be a huge loss if it were to go". It's a fabulous and dramatic bit of post-war architecture, with a great bit of landscape design by Sylvia Crowe. It's also a very popular landmark. In the last ...
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Commonwealth threat spurs heritage groups
Heritage groups have sprung into action to oppose the leaked government proposal to delist the Commonwealth Institute via a parliamentary bill (News June 2).
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NewsET comes home
The 238th Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition opens on Monday with an architecture room curated by Richard MacCormac, Peter Cook and Ian Ritchie.
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Opinion
Political campaign
I came across a page on the Commonwealth website which suggests the real reason for this political campaign (News June 2).
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NewsCabe Space founder resigns
Cabe Space's founding director Julia Thrift has resigned from the organisation for family reasons. She will leave at the end of the month, and will work with Cabe on one-off projects in the future.
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Sheppard Robson tipped for business school job
Sheppard Robson has been tipped as the surprise winner of the competition to design a multi-million pound extension to the London Business School.
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NewsStill bottom of the class
Richard Bowker's shock resignation from Partnerships for Schools has done little to allay to fears over the already delayed Building Schools for the Future delivery, discovers Ellen Bennett
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Building StudyOldham's double bill
Pringle Richards Sharratt's new library and learning centre joins its four-year-old Gallery Oldham in the city's burgeoning cultural quarter. This phase of the project may be PFI, but the architect has triumphed, creating a striking, highly usable space.
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Opinion
No need for bill
It is quite wrong for the government to attempt to use primary legislation to delist the Commonwealth Institute. There is no good reason to initiate a Parliamentary bill when there is adequate planning legislation in place which deals with the delisting process.
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Biennale spotlight for front garden campaign
Terry Brown, senior partner at GMW, is stepping up the campaign to tackle the blight on London streets caused by people abandoning their front gardens and concreting them over for cars and rubbish bins.
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BD online at the London Biennale
BD is the new media partner for the London Architecture Biennale.
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BD is the New Media partner for the London Biennale
This is the site for BD's daily coverage of the London Architecture Biennale. Every day between 16 and 25 June we will be bringing you fresh reports from the festival's highlight events, with podcasts of lectures, photographs, gossips and our pick of the day.
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