All Building Design articles in 06 March 2009
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News
HCA cuts directors in bid to save £2m a year
The Homes & Communities Agency today announced a number of measures to cut its costs ahead of an expected clampdown on quangos by the new government.
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News
Nightingale owner fails to find a buyer for the practice
The company that owns Nightingale has said it has not yet found a buyer for the business it put up for sale in March.
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Competitions
For sale: Rare Olive Green Totem ceramic
Rare Olive Green Totem ceramics by Susan Williams-Ellis. 1963
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Multimedia
Mipim 2009: Boris Johnson on Great Spaces (video)
The London mayor and advisors Peter Bishop and Simon Milton outline their new strategy for London's public spaces
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News
Follett won't list Lloyd's building
Architecture minister Barbara Follett has refused to list Richard Rogers’ seminal Lloyd’s of London building.
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Opinion
MIPIM 2009: Dispatches from the wreckage
The recession has made this year’s Mipim a shadow of previous events, but on the upside, plane fares are down
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News
Foster & Partners plans La Défence tower project
Norman Foster this week unveiled plans for the tallest mixed-use building in Western Europe, located in the La Défense business area of Paris.
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Competitions
Office Let: Cheap Project Space in East London
Bored with that stupid job anyway? Is it dawning on you that redundancy could be a rather interesting opportunity? Want to sow the seeds of your own practice by producing a few small commissions? Realise some small projects or interventions?
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News
Boris bashed over ‘pocket money’ for Great Spaces
London mayor Boris Johnson faced ridicule this week after unveiling a public realm strategy for the capital funded with what critics described as “pocket money”.
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News
Foster & Partners’ Croydon Gateway scheme on hold
Developer Stanhope says it will build only on demand in the face of the recession
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News
Ian Simpson Architects wins RIBA contest to design National Wildflower Centre at Knowsley
Ian Simpson Architects has won the RIBA competition to design a National Wildflower Centre in Knowsley, near Liverpool.
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Zaha Hadid profits soar by 400% in pre-recession period
Turnover at Zaha Hadid Architects doubled to £26.2 million in the 12 months to April 2008, with pre-tax profits leaping fivefold from £1 million to £5 million, accounts filed at Companies House last week revealed.
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News
Earth Architecture, by Ronald Rael
“Today, the most common building material on the planet is classified as alternative or worse, primitive”.
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News
BSEC 2010 moving to the Capital
The Building Schools for the Future Programme, City Academies and the Primary Capital Programme have had a huge impact on education spending in the UK with an estimated £100 billion being spent from now until 2020
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News
Aedas £125m Birmingham tower unveiled at Mipim
Aedas has designed one of the first large buildings to be unveiled at Mipim, a £125 million mixed-use tower for Birmingham.
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Sidell Gibson takes over Birmingham practice
London-based Sidell Gibson Architects is to acquire Birmingham practice Crouch Butler Savage
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News
Scott Brownrigg’s 3 Assembly Square, Cardiff waterfront.
Scott Brownrigg’s flagship office development on the Cardiff waterfront, 3 Assembly Square, has achieved a Breeam “excellent” rating six months before completion.
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News
Camden considers compulsory orchard provision for new projects
New buildings in the London Borough of Camden could be forced to include space for fruit orchards and community allotments.
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News
Allies & Morrison submits Elephant & Castle tower for planning
Allies & Morrison’s 43-storey residential tower Eileen House, in Elephant & Castle, south London, has been submitted for planning.
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News
DSDHA wins Waterloo square competition
DSDHA has won the competition to design a major new square on London’s South Bank.