All Blogs articles – Page 24

  • Midsomer Muders
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    It’ll take a murder to redevelop villages like Midsomer

    2011-03-24T10:35:00Z

    Osborne’s planned liberalisation of the planning system will not rest easy with the last bastions of Englishness

  • Flower shop
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    High Street living

    2011-03-23T10:35:00Z

    What intrigued me when I was ten, as it still does today, was the bizarre quality of living somewhere where you are not supposed to.

  • Watchdog
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    Don’t de-architect the watchdog

    2011-03-21T17:03:00Z

    What should the merged Cabe/Design Council be called?

  • learning
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    Learning Revit, understanding bim

    2011-03-21T10:49:00Z

    When I talk about learning BIM, I could just as well be asking people to refocus their attention to collaborating better…

  • What could be more exciting than foreign travel?
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    What could be more exciting than foreign travel?

    2011-03-18T10:30:53.627Z

    Last week it was a trip Denmark, giving a lecture. This week is Norway for competition scheme meeting, next week is Estonia for a client meeting and the week after that is back to Copenhagen for a group workshop on 'innovation'. More trips to these and other exotic places are ...

  • Merlin's front garden
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    Gardener's World

    2011-03-16T11:04:00Z

    When was the last time you spent a full day outside your house?

  • Blogs

    Down Turn: Up Skill

    2011-03-15T09:52:00Z

    I seem to have heard a lot of people talk about jobs in the past week. And I don’t mean projects that they are working on, but the type of ‘jobs’ that you can’t talk about at work – the ones that aren’t where you are currently working…

  • West Ham Lane facade engineered by Ramboll
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    Putting up a facade

    2011-03-11T17:19:00Z

    Following last weeks post concerning the great lost building this week is the story of the great lost façade.

  • Mipim 2011
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    "The days of ostentatious bling are over"

    2011-03-11T09:46:00Z

    To the Mipim Virgin the parties still seem indulgent, but with missing hosts and cautious investors the days of bling are over

  • David Rogers
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    How the RIBA is selling architects to Mipim

    2011-03-10T10:45:00Z

    This year’s RIBA presence at Mipim is bigger than last year with the Institute taking 20 small practices down to Cannes.

  • Legoland
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    The kids get to go to Legoland

    2011-03-09T14:14:00Z

    Architectural quality is important admits the government, as long as it’s not footing the bill.

  • Did somebody say utility?
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    The Architecture of Embarrassment

    2011-03-09T10:50:00Z

    There are seven different ways to embarrass an architect, or so we are told.

  • Typical British Supermarket
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    Lost in the supermarket

    2011-03-09T09:50:00Z

    Surely there’s an alternative to the joyless experience that food shopping has become

  • Mipim London stand
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    London's tentative return

    2011-03-08T16:54:00Z

    There’s an undeniable buzz to the London stand at Mipim and a new sense of optimism is emerging

  • Mipim
    Blogs

    Tales from the Mipim Virgin

    2011-03-08T10:42:00Z

    They warned me Mipim was not the property industry en vacances and they were right.

  • Jamie Oliver
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    Bim School

    2011-03-08T09:58:00Z

    When it comes to learning about bim, we need to think more like Jamie Oliver and adapt our attitude to education

  • Frustration at the loss of a dearly loved friend
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    Frustration at the loss of a dearly loved friend

    2011-03-07T10:05:00Z

    Part of this week has been spent in Copenhagen giving a talk to Architects and staff at our group HQ and also an intensive day at an Architects office throwing around ideas for our project in Estonia.

  • Amanda Baillieu - Editor
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    Hurray for Catherine Siu

    2011-03-04T18:26:00Z

    Peter Morrison’s email to RMJM staff shows a remarkable lack of sensitivity over the company’s failure to pay salaries on time.

  • House vs Home
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    House vs Home

    2011-03-04T16:46:03.300Z

    I've been thinking about corners a lot lately.

  • The Baiji White Dolphin
    Blogs

    On the brink of extinction?

    2011-03-02T13:32:00Z

    The number of architects is wildly out of scale with the reality of the jobs market but don’t expect RIBA to do anything about it.