All Building Design articles in 04 May 2007
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Features
Design a smoking shed
Send us a design for a smoking shelter. If you can do better than this we'll send it on to the brewers.
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CompetitionsYAYA 2007: Call for entries
BD's prestigious Young Architect of the Year Awards celebrates its tenth year with a sparkling line-up of judges including Zaha Hadid and David Chipperfield. Entry forms available to download
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MultimediaPodcast: Grimshaw on Southern Cross Station
The Architecture Foundation’s Real Architecture Spring 2007 series continues with a presentation by Grimshaw Architects’ chairman Nicholas Grimshaw and director Mark Middleton about the practice’s recent expansion of Melbourne’s Southern Cross Station, one of Australia’s largest on-land transport centres.
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NewsThe completion of Manchester's new justice centre
Denton Corker Marshall’s landmark £113 million Manchester Civil Justice Centre will finally be completed this month, just as client Department of Constitutional Affairs (DCA) is swallowed up by the newly created Department of Justice.The 34,000sq m new court facility at the Spinningfields development in west Manchester is the biggest court ...
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OpinionNight of the planning triumph
Council planning committees could learn a trick from eBay, muses Roger Zogolovitch
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Competitions
C.R. Cockerell's A Tribute to Sir Christopher Wren and the Wren Revival - Tuesday September 25
Part of the Architecture Talks in the V&A + RIBA Study Rooms series. Presented by Charles Hind.
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CompetitionsRoyal Festival Hall Revival - Tuesday July 24, 1-2pm
Part of the Architecture Talks in the V&A + RIBA Study Rooms series. Presented by Eleanor Gawne
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Competitions
Postwar School Architecture - Tuesday July 17
Part of the Architecture Talks in the V&A + RIBA Study Rooms series. Presented by Lucy Rowe
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Competitions
Architecture After Apartheid: Shaping the Rainbow Nation - RIBA - Tuesday 12 June, 6.30pm
Twelve years after its last South African ‘special issue’, the June 2007 Architectural Review is once again dedicated to the country. To coincide with the RIBA exhibition ‘Between Ownership and Belonging’, the magazine will investigate post-apartheid design and practice, from new public spaces to private homes. South African ...
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CompetitionsExtreme North (Six Cities Design Festival) - until August 12
This Norsk Form exhibition looks at designs created in response to harsh conditions and extreme climate.
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CompetitionsThe Royal Festival Hall Exhibition - until October 14
To coincide with the reopening of the Royal Festival Hall in June this display will reveal how this world class concert venue, originally built in 1951, has been redesigned to meet the demands of the next 50 years.
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CompetitionsSurreal Things: Surrealism and Design – until July 22
Dali’s Mae West Lips sofa and Schiaparelli’s disturbing Tear dress feature in this major exhibition which traces the development of surrealism from the creation of the first objects in the 1920s to its commercialisation after the War.
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NewsFoster & Partners to build green city in Abu Dhabi
The emirate aims to build the world's first zero-carbon, zero-waste metropolis
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News
Shops and offices must go zero carbon says housing minister
A new government task force is to set deadlines for emissions cuts for non-residential buildings
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NewsNews Junkie: 5 and 6 May
This week: Black Death in our wheelie bins, bingo halls in the ashtray of history, and Nigel's apparently the only gay in the media village...
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ReviewNew books for May
A personal reminiscence of Pierre Chareau’s La maison de Verre, a study of the importance of detail in contemporary residential architecture and an exploration of flexible architecture are among the new titles out this month
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NewsHousing architects are out of touch, warns culture minister
Architects risk repeating the mistakes of the post-war housing boom, culture minister David Lammy claimed this week.Speaking on Thursday morning at the Think 07 conference, Lammy, the minister responsible for architecture, raised doubt over whether the profession is designing “truly sustainable” buildings in line with what the public want.David Lammy“The ...
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MultimediaThe Podcast: Liz Diller
The Architecture Foundation's Real Architecture Spring 2007 series begins with an awe-inspiring talk by Liz Diller of Diller Scofidio & Renfro, who presents the practice’s recent design for Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art.
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Opinion
Tune in, turn on
Festival goers heading for Glastonbury this summer should not be surprised to spot the Landscape Institute among those setting up stall.