All Building Design articles in 11 January 2008

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  • Aaron Betsky
    News

    Aaron Betsky to curate Venice Biennale

    2008-01-17T14:43:00Z

    Aaron Betsky has been appointed director of the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale. Betsky, director of the Cincinnati Art Museum in the United States and former director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute of Rotterdam, will curate the festival on the theme “Architecture Beyond Building”. The eleventh international architecture exhibition will include ...

  • Frank Gehry
    News

    Gehry to design 2008 Serpentine Summer Pavilion

    2008-01-17T10:03:00Z

    Frank Gehry is to design this year’s Serpentine Pavilion, the gallery has revealed. The temporary structure, which will be on site for three months this summer, will be Gehry’s first built structure in England, in accordance with the Serpentine’s rules on selecting architects for the annual pavilions.Gallery director Julia Peyton-Jones ...

  • Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum
    News

    Zaha Hadid's double win in Michigan and Warsaw

    2008-01-16T11:26:00Z

    Zaha Hadid Architects wins competitions for Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum in Michigan and Lilium Tower in Warsaw

  • Colourscape photograph by Tony Blurton, New Level Design
    Review

    Arts Space of the Future – until February 16

    2008-01-15T13:26:00Z

    Eleven London architects, including five students, have been shortlisted for the Arts Space of the Future competition run by RIBA London which explores the challenge of creating arts spaces of the future. The spaces reflect changing lifestyles, expectations and forms of participation, new and developing arts practices, the need to ...

  • SMC chairman Rodney Walker
    News

    SMC shareholders approve issue of £15m in new shares

    2008-01-15T11:44:00Z

    SMC Group shareholders yesterday gave the green light for the release of new shares worth more than £15 million to cover payments due to the group’s own practices.During an extraordinary general meeting, shareholders voted in favour of a set of proposals that will see 188 million new shares created, increasing ...

  • Review

    Atmospheric Theatres:Tim Ronalds – January 22

    2008-01-14T19:34:00Z

    An illustrated talk by award winning theatre architect Tim Ronalds, most recently of Hackney Empire fame. The evening will focus on the concept and treatment of modernising old theatre spaces without spoiling their ambience and atmosphere, yet making them accessible for contemporary audiences.

  • Blogs

    News Junkie: 12 and 13 January

    2008-01-14T13:59:00Z

    As the January blues kick in with a vengeance, its belt tightening all round.This week the arts funding and credit crunches become crunchier, abstemious resolutions and diets succumb to five-day benders and Grange Hill becomes a multimedia academy.

  • News

    Ferguson blasts KPF's "gargantuan" Smithfield plans

    2008-01-11T17:40:00Z

    Former RIBA president George Ferguson has thrown his weight behind English Heritage’s objections to the redevelopment of Smithfield Market.Giving evidence on Wednesday at the public inquiry into KPF's controversial scheme, Ferguson blasted proposals to demolish the General Market building and replace it with a structure he described as “gargantuan” in ...

  • News

    Unesco refutes claims of Gazprom tower u-turn

    2008-01-11T17:08:00Z

    Unesco has strongly denied press reports that it no longer has concerns about the impact of RMJM’s 396m-high Gazprom tower in St Petersburg and claims it has been misrepresented.Francesco Bandarin, who heads Unesco’s World Heritage Centre division, said: “I never said any of these things, nor did my associates, and ...

  • The Wallace Collection's building on London's Manchester Square
    News

    Wallace Collection seeks designer to transform museum entrance

    2008-01-11T15:32:00Z

    A new competition has been launched to redesign the entrance to London’s famous museum the Wallace Collection.The project aims to transform the main entrance to the museum’s grade II-listed building Hertford House in Londons' Manchester Square and involves working with architect Purcell Miller Tritton.The Wallace Collection is a national Museum ...

  • Review

    Newspaper concept wins arts space of the future competition - images

    2008-01-11T12:41:00Z

    The £5,000 first prize in Riba London's challenge to rethink exhibition space was won last night by a collaborative project that took the form of pages from the Financial Times and addressed arts spaces and environmental issues as well as challenging the concept of architectural competitions.

  • News

    This week

    2008-01-11T00:00:00Z

    This week’s ups and downs

  • Opinion

    Warm response

    2008-01-11T00:00:00Z

    The Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists was very pleased to read that Sunand Prasad in his presidential speech urged professionals to work together on tackling climate change.

  • Madelon Vriesendorp among the hundreds of collected objects that fill her flat
    Review

    Madelon Vriesendorp’s magic toyshop

    2008-01-11T00:00:00Z

    Kester Rattenbury steps into the weird and wonderful world of Madelon Vriesendorp, whose first solo show opens next week

  • Opinion

    Time for readers to turn over a new leaf

    2008-01-11T00:00:00Z

    Interior design has rediscovered nature, so why are architects still so hostile to the joys of floral decoration?

  • Opinion

    Runaway ideas

    2008-01-11T00:00:00Z

    The government, flying in the face of the eco-lobby, has approved BAA’s plans for a third runway at Heathrow airport.

  • News

    Sorrell knighted in honours list

    2008-01-11T00:00:00Z

    Cabe chairman John Sorrell has been knighted in the New Year honours.

  • Stonehenge: keep this historically vital view
    Opinion

    Over the hill

    2008-01-11T00:00:00Z

    So the road tunnel under Stonehenge is to be scrapped (News December 14, 2007). Good!

  • Opinion

    High minded

    2008-01-11T00:00:00Z

    Aedas Architects’ top brains have been researching the heights and densities of new planning permissions in London but the conclusions are less than thrilling.

  • Opinion

    Moral guardian

    2008-01-11T00:00:00Z

    Architects, it seems, are at the back of the queue in saving us from global warming — at least in the Guardian’s eyes.