All Building Design articles in 05 September 2008
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News
Go ahead for Norwich campus
Aukett Fitzroy Robinson has won planning consent for its £120 million masterplan to redevelop City College in Norwich.
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Building Study
OMA has designs on the Big Apple
Rem Koolhaas today unveiled plans for OMA’s first residential high-rise in New York City.
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Technical
Timber frame lessons from Scotland
Housing expert and writer Mark Brinkley reckons the use of wood north of the border is a lesson on how to properly put up timber frame systems
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Review
Viñoly makes UK debut with The Curve
Rafael Viñoly has revealed these images of The Curve, a theatre in Leicester which is the Uruguayan architect’s first building to be completed in the UK.
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Review
Venice Biennale: The American Pavilion
'Into the Open: Positioning Practice' looks at how architects can reclaim a role in shaping community and the built environment, whilst expanding understanding of American architectural practice and its relationship to civic participation.
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Features
The Carbuncle Cup 2008: Your nominations
With only three weeks left to nominate your most hated building in the UK, it’s time to put on your protective goggles and pore the streets for that most celebrated monstrosity and deserved winner of BD’s third Carbuncle Cup.
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News
Future Systems to design Wapping HQ for News Corporation
Future Systems is to design a new corporate campus for News Corporation at the global media organisation’s site in Wapping, London.
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Opinion
British Council/BD survey: Is the UK in a state of housing crisis?
Housing in Britain is never far from the headlines – and it is under the spotlight again in the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
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News
New innings for SMC Alsop
A £17 million cricket pavilion at Headingley Carnegie Cricket Ground in Leeds by SMC Alsop has won planning.
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News
Towers will aid growth, says BPF
Skyscrapers bring dramatic economic benefits which should be considered alongside aesthetic and heritage considerations in making planning decisions, a new report from the British Property Federation recommends.
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News
McAslan, AHMM and BDP top shortlist for BD’s Architect of the Year Awards
The finalists for BD’s Architect of the Year Awards 2008 have been announced, with Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, BDP and John McAslan & Partners all gaining four nominations.
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Review
New public art sculpture funded by advertising
Plans for a new piece of public art funded through advertising revenue have been unveiled in the West Midlands.
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News
Gold medallist Hoy launches 2012 velodrome design
The latest designs for the 2012 VeloPark were unveiled on Monday by Beijing gold medallist Chris Hoy.
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Blogs
News Junkie: 06 and 07 September
The Candy’s plans for Chelsea Barracks in London may be under threat as the Qataris who originally helped to finance the purchase of the 13 acre site now want to buy the brothers out and gain full control of the £1bn development, according to the Sunday Telegraph.
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Building Study
Leeds eco-apartments with Japanese twist
Tao eco-apartments built using Insulating Concrete Formwork
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News
New images of RSHP’s sports centre revealed
Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners’ Chelsea Barracks scheme will include a £40 million community sports centre, it has emerged.
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Opinion
Wearing well
I can’t believe that was me in July 1978, sitting next to Sam Webb and Clare Frankl at the RIBA Liverpool conference (Archive August 29).
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Opinion
Wholly Trinity
I enjoyed your piece on Rodney Gordon (News August 29). As a new student of architecture, I attended a premier of Get Carter in Newcastle hours after visiting the Trinity Centre.
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Opinion
Still singing
Norman Lamont must be relieved to no longer hold the keys to the Exchequer, what with the storms battering the current chancellor.
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Features
Should I try to tackle sexism?
Irena Bauman, author of How to be a Happy Architect, tackles your ethical dilemmas