All Features articles – Page 209
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Features60 seconds with: A Brit Down Under
Matthew Turner, who lived in Sydney between 2003 and 2006, gives his lowdown on living and working in Australia
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FeaturesMystery voice contest: Number 3
Name the third mystery voice in our new weekly competition and win a £25 music token
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FeaturesLuder’s stadium is best of a bad bunch
A ‘super stadium’ for Sunderland was one of the few Royal Academy exhibits not to meet with BD’s opprobrium
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FeaturesA sense of adventure
From age-old considerations of proportion, decorum and classical dignity to fears about the way Britain’s surveillance culture is shaping our built environment, this year’s round-up of the best graduating diploma students reveals the extraordinary range of preoccupations at play in our architecture schools
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FeaturesA New City at the bottom of my garden
Mark Dytham recalls how a childhood observing the construction of Milton Keynes helped spark his architectural career
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FeaturesMystery voice contest: Number 2
Name the second mystery voice in our new weekly competition and win a £25 music token
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FeaturesDefending suburbia
Cars, trees and evening classes: We gave the people what they wanted, says Derek Walker, Milton Keynes former chief architect. Interview by Zoë Blackler
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FeaturesPoulson puts porridge behind him
Architect John Poulson leaves Lincoln prison in 1977 after serving three years of a seven-year sentence for corruption.
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FeaturesI’m pregnant – when do I have to tell my employer, and what am I entitled to?
I work for a small architect’s practice and have just discovered I am pregnant. I know I will be entitled to maternity leave. When do I have to tell my employer, and what is it that I am actually entitled to?
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FeaturesOff the starboard bow with Spratley Architects
‘The whole practice came to the regatta to cheer me on!’
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FeaturesChild of the grid
For the children whose parents built the new city, Milton Keynes has proved an enduring influence. Architect Andrew Waugh describes how the city and its shortfalls continue to inspire him
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FeaturesBD's mystery voice competition
Name the mystery voice and win a £25 music token in the first of our new weekly competitions
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Name the mystery voice and win a £25 music token
Visit bdonline on Monday and enter our new weekly Name that Voice competition
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FeaturesVector Foiltec profile: Ben Morris and Stefan Lehnert on the future of ETFE
For 25 years Ben Morris and Stefan Lehnert of Vector Foiltec have been filling the world’s roof line with ETFE. Now green innovation is helping open up the technology to wider uses. Portrait by Ed Tyler
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FeaturesProblems amount to a hill of beans
Residents of the Beanhill estate in Milton Keynes were not not happy with their Norman Foster designed housing
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FeaturesTrain for Ukraine
With Ukraine co-hosting the European Championships in 2012 with Poland, the city of Lviv is seeking a replacement or update of its 1970s stadium, while Kiev is set to commission a substantial reconstruction of its 1923 stadium.
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