All Building Design articles in 14 March 2008
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CompetitionsHoliday let (or possible sale) - Dordogne, France.
Stunning steel and glass house with two bedrooms (sleeps 4) and 12m lap pool with gorgeous views, yet only a few minutes from the centre of Riberac, north west Dordogne.
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Review
Zones of Transit: Lydia Polzer –until April 19
In the third exhibition in a year-long series exclusively devoted to recent graduates; Polzer’s first UK solo show displays images of the quickly disappearing traces of the East German communist state: sites now so often unremarkable and mundane; but with their gravity arising from their history. Images include the ‘death ...
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Competitions
Wanted - Twentieth century design items sought with a British focus
Wanted furniture by Race, Day, Plunkett, Heritage, Gordon Russell, Morris of Glasgow, Merrow, Kandya, Heals et.al. Ditto ceramics, lighting, flatware and glass required of British or international provenance particularly Scandinavian.
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ReviewPsycho Buildings: until August 25
Ten artists from around the world, chosen for their tendency to create habitat-like structures and architectural spaces that are mental and perceptual as much as physical, will transform the Hayward gallery’s huge spaces in ‘Psycho Buildings’.
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ReviewDavid Prentice: A City Perspective - until May 10
Prentice, a highly regarded contemporary painter and winner of many awards, including First Prize in the Sunday Times Singer & Friedlander Competition’s new exhibition consists of large canvases depicting the City of London, as viewed from the top of King’s Reach Tower on the South Bank. Landmarks visible in the ...
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Review
David Adjaye: In Conversation at Parasol Unit - March 18
On Tuesday 18 March at 7pm, David Adjaye will be in conversation at Parasol unit, an art exhibition space in East London. Adjaye formed his partnership in 1994 and quickly developed a reputation for being an architect with an artist's sensibility and vision. He will be discussing recent projects.
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NewsKoolhaas wins competition to restore Commonwealth Institute
Rem Koolhaas and Reinier de Graaf of Dutch firm OMA are set to restore London’s iconic Commonwealth Institute building in Kensington, having beaten competition from architects including Rafael Viñoly, Eric Parry and Caruso St John.
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NewsOlympic site will become London’s largest park for a century
The Olympic Delivery Authority has unveiled plans to convert London’s Olympic site into the largest new urban park in London since the Victorian era, following the end of the 2012 games.The plans, designed by LDA Design and US-based landscape designer George Hargreaves, will also promote more sustainable and active lifestyles ...
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BlogsNews Junkie — 15 and 16 March
Easter arrives early, expensive tourist infrastructure and royal Zulu residences. Architect redesigns own face and brickie reinvents the sandbag.
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NewsBlears calls in Simpson’s 51-storey Beetham Tower
Hazel Blears has called in Ian Simpson’s Beetham Tower, planned for a prominent site on London’s South Bank. In a call-in letter sent to Southwark council on Monday (March 10), the communities secretary questioned whether the proposed location of the One Blackfriars Road tower, close to the banks of the ...
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NewsQueen opens Rogers’ T5 – images
Twenty years after it first went in for planning Richard Rogers Terminal Five building at Heathrow airport will finally be opened by the Queen.
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OpinionThe Foster supremacy
A week of surreal experiences at Mipim is topped by the sight of Norman Foster, flanked by villainesque Russian henchmen, lavishing praise on fire escapes
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Review
Fat and (un)happy
Architect and critic Elizabeth Farrelly has used architecture as her jumping off point to explore the connections between our environment and over-consumption.“Welcome to Blubberland, a world of quadruple-garaged mansions, vast malls, gated communities, stretch limos, and posh resorts. Blubberland is a place, but it is also a state of mind: ...
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ReviewCocktails and the Endless City
Publication of The Endless City was marked on Wednesday (12th March) with a discussion between the title’s editors and world city experts. At a cocktail reception at London’s Tate Modern gallery, editors Ricky Burdett, centennial professor of Architecture and Urbanism at the London School of Economics, and Deyan Sudjic, Design ...
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ReviewThe road more travelled
David Brady on an exhibition about the Shell Guides to Britain, and their links to the Architectural Review’s JM Ricahrds, John Betjeman and others
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ReviewHope for style
Designer, novelist and patron of the arts Thomas Hope was influential in establishing the Regency style in England.
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News
Mixed response on Hips – survey
Six out of ten homebuyers in home information pack (Hip) trial areas did not see a Hip last year, according to government research.
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Review
Hall space
Nigel Hall’s 40-year career as an abstract sculptor is explored in the Yorkshire Sculpture Park’s latest show, opening next week.