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FeaturesWhat to specify: offices
Glazed curtain walling, state-of-the-art lighting and a host of other products designed to make offices safer, more comfortable and generally less depressing …
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FeaturesWhat it costs: mechanical ventilation
In many instances mechanical ventilation may be the only option to manage office environments. Peter Mayer of Building LifePlans explores the options
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FeaturesLet there be light
WHO MAKES IT — DP Architectural Lighting has established its name in the big league of interior design by providing bespoke lighting solutions to high profile clients like Foster and Partners.
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FeaturesTimber frame business centure: From little acorns…
HOW WE WORK TOGETHER — Directors from Reid Architecture, Woolgar Hunter and Donaldson & McConnell explain why they opted for a timber-frame solution on a business centre in West Lothian.
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NewsThis year’s Styles
BIG PLANS — Shopfitter Styles & Wood is looking forward to a spending spree – and a new look
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CommentA call to arms
Forget new year’s resolutions and good intentions, our new columnist reveals the biggest challenge facing the UK economy in the 21st century
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CommentPause for thought
As we complete another lap of the calendar, our diarist stops to consider the effects of time on the vanity of human wishes, before moving smartly along to a story about Keith Clarke and nipple piercing
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Planning applications: November 2006
This month the South-east maintains its lead and Aspire Defence is the biggest client
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CommentHomage to Helsinki
As a regular visitor to Finland for more than 40 years, I was taken aback by Amanda Levete’s ill-informed comments on Finnish culture and design (24 November).
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Don’t fiddle
Your article regarding the implications of the Colindale fire (1 December) rightly stresses this is no time for fiddling.
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Two questions
Two issues for further discussion arise from the Colindale fire. The first is the extent to which steel-framed buildings are different from timber. I am watching a steel-framed retirement home go up locally and there is a lot of timber in the secondary structure.
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Comment
To answer the first question …
Stephen Robinson of the London Fire Brigade says a fire in a concrete or steel building isn’t an issue.
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Devilish details
The zero carbon initiative proposed by Gordon Brown (8 December, page 10) looks impressive, with “every new home to be zero carbon by 2010”. His statement is backed up by the fiscal incentive of zero carbon homes being exempt from stamp duty. This is a bold statement, however like many ...
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Setting the record straight
Your story “Marks Barfield starts work on Olympic spike” (8 DecembeR), was inaccurate and misleading.
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CommentDanger is my bread, death my butter
Thanks to Bob Wright from Bignell & Associates for this one.
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CommentGreen house effect
Ruth Kelly explains how she plans to meet the environmental challenge by awarding stars to sustainable homes
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CommentReflections and predictions
Wembley remained incomplete, third-party rights grew in popularity and we awoke to the importance of sustainability last year. So what will 2007 hold?
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CommentEnd this travesty
In these topsy-turvey times subbies think they’re designers, QSs act like lawyers and architects let builders specify. Wouldn’t it be refreshing if we stuck to our job descriptions in 2007?