All Editorial articles – Page 160
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NewsCouncil pledges to save Finsbury Health Centre
London’s Finsbury Health Centre looks set to be saved after the local council promised to block any attempt by the owner to move out and leave it standing empty.
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Building for Life sees 50% more qualifying
A record number of new housing schemes qualified for a Building for Life standard this year, the largest number in the eight years of the award
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NewsFree school pioneer says design not necessary
Toby Young dismisses link between good architecture and academic ability
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FeaturesDot to dot results: September 3 2010
Last week’s winner was Amy Bradley Smith, a student at London Metropolitan University, who identified the Royal Liver Building in Liverpool by Walter Aubrey Thomas
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ReviewBuilding a Library 26: Poetry, Language, Thought by Martin Heidegger
Robert Harbison picks 50 books that should feature in any architectural library.
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OpinionThorp's top 40
Well done, John (“Thorp retires from Leeds as last of city architects” News September 3) and carry on your good works for the city of Leeds
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OpinionHowells’ act of bravery
It’s about time schemes such as Glenn Howells Architects’ proposal for King’s Cross Central (News September 3) that are brave enough to use proportions and considered design thinking are given credit over the fashionable and icon- orientated dross the profession has churned out in recent years.
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HOK denies Aecom buyout rumour
HOK has denied all knowledge of reports that fellow US firm Aecom is considering buying it out.
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Opinion
It's all out there
Please tell Ed Hollis (“Living in the greatest show on earth” Opinion September 3), it’s OK
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OpinionThis winter it’s all going south
At least we know the swallows will be back, unlike the values embodied in our cities’ architect’s departments.
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OpinionDo architects have a problem with beauty?
Yael Reisner thinks architecture has only briefly engaged with aesthetics, while Piers Gough says all design involves the pursuit of beauty
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ReviewTalking Architecture: Raj Rewal in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo
An innovative dialogue draws out the background to Raj Rewal’s architecture to show current Indian practice in a postcolonial context.
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TechnicalLas Arenas Bullring, Barcelona
A “floating” domed roof takes centre stage as Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners’ redevelopment of Barcelona’s 1890s bullring nears completion.
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SPAB Awards seek student ideas
Architecture students are being invited to enter an awards competition celebrating innovation and conservation.
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NewsNew Bullring plans set to move Marks Barfield café
Chapman Taylor has unveiled plans for a new restaurant complex beside the Bullring in Birmingham – which could mean the demise of Marks Barfield’s multi award-winning Spiral Café just five years after it opened
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ReviewNew Delhi: Making of a Capital
As global power shifts eastward, a new book charting the birth of New Delhi reclaims the city’s history
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NewsThe Cineroleum reels them in
A temporary cinema created in a disused Clerkenwell Road petrol station by a collective of young architects and artists is coming to the end of its short life.
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Medieval on your class
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has won planning permission for a new school in north-east London
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OpinionWill the prince crack the code?
His new book is the latest indication of Prince Charles’s ambition to take the lead in sustainable housing design