All Building Design articles in 9 September 2005
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Opinion
Tombs’ tones
Is Architecture & Design Scotland chief executive Sebastian Tombs keeping busy enough? Tombs sent BD a poem this week reflecting on the connections between architecture and music.
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Opinion
Turning the tide
Rest assured, Derek Abbott, our “ambitious” residential project on the foreshore at Folkestone (Letters, August 26) is not tempting providence with our attitude to the UK’s temperamental coastal conditions. We have spent considerable effort designing the scheme in consultation with the local authority and the Environment Agency to withstand ...
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News
Taskforce veterans query Prescott’s way
Government plays down importance of looming verdict from Rogers and Co.
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News
Practices split over PFI tactics
Battle lines drawn between ‘boring’ big fish firms and schools of tiddlers in partnerships
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News
Original Olypic team shortlisted
The original design team behind London’s Olympic bid has been shortlisted for the detailed masterplan of the Olympic Park.
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News
North-west
Housing panel The North West Development Agency and RIBA North West have revealed plans to establish a design review panel for areas of low housing demand in the region. The new panel will cover East Lancashire, Manchester and Salford, Merseyside and Oldham and Rochdale — housing renewal areas identified by ...
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Opinion
We’re no Nimbies
Your article about plans for the relocation of a homeless/rough sleepers centre in York requires clarification (News, September 2).
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Opinion
Keynes reminder
Peter Stewart is right to call for a fresh approach to the structuring of urban growth with something like a new town revival (Soapbox, August 26).
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News
Thameslink inquiry opens
The second public inquiry into the £3 billion Thameslink 2000 service began this week. Network Rail opened by stating the case for the creation of the rail link between Bedford and Brighton that would introduce five extra trains an hour at peak times.
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Opinion
Ian Martin
“Owzat? Is architecture the new cricket? Darcy Farquear’say steers a cultural metaphor to the boundary”
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News
Hit and miss
London-based Make has won a competition to conduct a feasibility study for the Bandstand concert venue in Edinburgh. The appointment has disappointed some Scottish architects who resent Make’s presence in Scotland.
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Opinion
Pringle is our hero
Jack Pringle’s recent words to BD and the changes at RMJM bring into focus the great professional debate. Are architects part of the arts community, providing the public something they never knew they wanted until they see it, or are we servicing a daily societal need?
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Building Study
Wish you were here?
Just as England’s cricketers are finally teaching the Australians a thing or two, our architects are doing the same, with our very own hi-tech “barmy army” making a splash down under. But why aren’t more of us going?
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Opinion
New plan for Thames Gateway is overdue
Ten years since the Thames Gateway Planning Framework was published, “setting the framework for a sustained and sustainable programme of economic, social and environmental regeneration”, a new mind is being brought to bear on one of the biggest building challenges of our times.
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News
Market forces
Foster & Partners has completed the shell of its controversial office development on the western side of Spitalfields Market in on the eastern fringe of the City of London, and is close to completing the retail space and landscaping for the scheme.
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News
Heritage groups find strength in numbers to fight owners
The leaders of every major heritage body in the UK are meeting later this month to plan a new campaign to protect Britain’s heritage from neglectful owners.
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Opinion
Eyes on the prize
I share Ellis Woodman’s admiration for Haworth Tompkins’ student housing (Works, September 2) and also his misgivings about the Stirling Prize. It goes to “the architects of the building which has been the most significant for the evolution of British architecture in the past year” so what does its shortlist ...