All Building Design articles in 12 September 2008
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New minimum design threshold for BSF
Minister for schools Jim Knight today hailed the new minimum design threshold for the £45 billion Building Schools for the Future programme and revealed teachers are to sit on Cabe’s dedicated design review panel.
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Features
Stockholm reflects on real life practice
Ten international architects presented their work at last month’s Stockholm Seminar, which sought to examine the gap between architectural practice and theory. James R Payne reports
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Foreign Office's design for Birmingham New Street unveiled (images)
The first images of Foreign Office Architects’ competition-winning designs for Birmingham’s New Street Station have been unveiled.
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Building Study
John Lyall pumping station to process Olympic waste
Concept designs by John Lyall Architects for the Olympic Park pumping station have been unveiled by the ODA.
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RIBA calls for simplification of planning rules
The RIBA has called for simpler planning rules for smaller developments and for more to be done to encourage the establishment of local design review panels.
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Cabe scheme would boost quality of Thames Gateway homes
Cabe has launched a new initiative to strengthen the design standards for the Thames Gateway Delivery plan.
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Staff face the axe at Urban Splash
Urban Splash is set to cut jobs due to the ongoing effects of the credit crunch.
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Estonian curator Ingrid Ruudi on the gas pipeline: (Video)
A surprise hit of this year's Venice Biennale was Estonia's bright yellow Gas Pipe installation.
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London mayor: South Bank towers are inappropriate
London mayor Boris Johnson has dealt a massive blow to Ian Simpson and Wilkinson Eyre’s neighbouring tower projects on the South Bank, labelling them “unacceptable”.
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Prasad hits out at RIBA ‘old boy’s club’ attack
RIBA president Sunand Prasad has hit out at the head of one of the UK’s biggest architecture practices after hearing him describe the profession an “old boy’s club”.
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Zumthor wins Praemium Imperiale
Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has been named the Japanese Art Association’s Praemium Imperiale architecture laureate for 2008.
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William Menking on the American Pavilion (video)
William Menking, editor of The Architect’s Newspaper and curator of the American Pavilion, talks about his Venice pavilion.
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Feng shui makeover for Chinatown
The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment has proposed “healing” parts of London’s Chinatown using ancient Chinese traditions of feng shui.
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Croydon Council backs Foster Gateway
Croydon Council now supports Foster & Partners’ £600 million Croydon Gateway scheme after cutting ties with the developer behind the rival Michael Aukett Architects-designed scheme.
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Features
Carbuncle Cup 2008: The latest nominations
Manchester Civil Justice centre could become the marmite of modern architecture in October after notching a double-whammy nomination for both the Stirling Prize and Building Design’s Carbuncle Cup.
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Building Study
Alison Brooks gives traditional Essex look to new homes
Alison Brooks Architects has unveiled a new residential development on the outskirts of Harlow in Essex for homebuilder Linden Homes.
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Blackfriars towers pair offer their view at inquiry
Ian Simpson and Wilkinson Eyre’s Jim Eyre have offered a robust defence of their neighbouring tower projects on London’s South Bank, in the first week of a joint public inquiry into the schemes.
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George Ferguson's verdict on the British Pavilion (video)
George Ferguson, former president of RIBA, on his view of this year's British Pavilion.
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Hugh Pearman on the Venice pavilions (video)
Hugh Pearman, editor of the RIBA Journal and architecture critic for the Sunday Times, gives his take on the highlights of the national pavilions at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale. Watch the video ...