All Building Design articles in 11 January 2008
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News
Aaron Betsky to curate Venice Biennale
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 ...
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News
Gehry to design 2008 Serpentine Summer Pavilion
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 ...
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News
Zaha Hadid's double win in Michigan and Warsaw
Zaha Hadid Architects wins competitions for Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum in Michigan and Lilium Tower in Warsaw
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Review
Arts Space of the Future – until February 16
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 ...
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SMC shareholders approve issue of £15m in new shares
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 ...
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Review
Atmospheric Theatres:Tim Ronalds – January 22
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.
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Blogs
News Junkie: 12 and 13 January
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.
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News
Ferguson blasts KPF's "gargantuan" Smithfield plans
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 ...
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Unesco refutes claims of Gazprom tower u-turn
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 ...
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Wallace Collection seeks designer to transform museum entrance
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 ...
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Review
Newspaper concept wins arts space of the future competition - images
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.
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Opinion
Warm response
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.
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Review
Madelon Vriesendorp’s magic toyshop
Kester Rattenbury steps into the weird and wonderful world of Madelon Vriesendorp, whose first solo show opens next week
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Opinion
Time for readers to turn over a new leaf
Interior design has rediscovered nature, so why are architects still so hostile to the joys of floral decoration?
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Opinion
Runaway ideas
The government, flying in the face of the eco-lobby, has approved BAA’s plans for a third runway at Heathrow airport.
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News
Sorrell knighted in honours list
Cabe chairman John Sorrell has been knighted in the New Year honours.
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Opinion
Over the hill
So the road tunnel under Stonehenge is to be scrapped (News December 14, 2007). Good!
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Opinion
High minded
Aedas Architects’ top brains have been researching the heights and densities of new planning permissions in London but the conclusions are less than thrilling.
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Opinion
Moral guardian
Architects, it seems, are at the back of the queue in saving us from global warming — at least in the Guardian’s eyes.