All Building Design articles in 15 May 2009
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Alsop's Blackfriars hotel in for planning
Alsop Architects' proposals for a £250m hotel development next to Blackfriars Station on the banks of the River Thames have been submitted for planning.
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Heatherwick to judge Stirling Prize
Thomas Heatherwick – whose latest design is on the front page of this week’s BD – is to be one of the judges for this year’s Stirling Prize.
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Libeskind wins $20 billion Seoul masterplan project
Studio Daniel Libeskind has beaten Foster & Partners, Asympote and Skidmore Owings & Merrill to win an international competition to design a $20 billion masterplan for a new district in Seoul, South Korea.
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Farrell warns over Edinburgh 'complacency'
Edinburgh is at risk of losing its status as one of Europe’s greatest capital cities, Terry Farrell has said.
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RIBA 2009 awards winners unveiled
Allies & Morrison and Niall McLaughlin Architects are the big winners in this year’s RIBA Awards, collecting four prizes each for architectural excellence.
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Developer hitch delays prince's eco-home
The chief executive of the Prince’s Foundation has admitted its Natural House project will open three months late after it had to switch developers.
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AHMM's Kentish Town Health Centre (video)
Take a virtual tour of AHMM’s Kentish Town Health Centre as we talk to the architects behind the scheme.
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Atkins' proposals for Mecca's transformation (video)
A video detailing Atkins’ proposal to transform the Haram Mosque, one of the world’s holiest sites in the city of Mecca, has been leaked.
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HKS stadium for Dallas Cowboys opens next month
HKS Sports & Entertainment Group’s new stadium for the Dallas Cowboys opens early next month in Texas.
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Schmidt Hammer Lassen’s Barking revamp wins planning
Danish firm Schmidt Hammer Lassen’s plans to revamp part of Barking in east London have been given the all-clear.
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Southend launches competition to redevelop fire-damaged pier
A competition has been launched for a design team to redevelop pier, four years after it was damaged by fire.
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Clinton heralds Elephant & Castle as model for sustainability
The redevelopment of Elephant & Castle has been lauded by former US president Bill Clinton as a global template for sustainable development.
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London through a Shard
This is London as you have never seen it before – a glimpse of what visitors to the Shard will see when it opens to the public in 2012.
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Piano’s extension to Art Institute of Chicago opens
Renzo Piano’s $300 million Modern Wing extension to the Art Institute of Chicago in the USA has opened to the public.
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RIAS gives honorary fellowships to Gough and Fabiani
The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland has awarded honorary fellowships to former Scottish Parliament minister of architecture Linda Fabiani and CZWG principal Piers Gough.
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Council approves rebuilding of Westminster Theatre
Tim Foster Architects and Loates-Taylor Shannon have been granted surprise permission to create the West End’s first major new theatre in decades
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Simon Jenkins launches all-out attack on architects
Columnist and National Trust chairman Simon Jenkins has launched a vitriolic attack on the architectural profession claiming the debate sparked by Prince Charles in 1984 has “never died”.
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Culture secretary rejects Robin Hood Gardens listing appeal
Robin Hood Gardens has been dealt a huge blow after culture secretary Andy Burnham turned down an appeal from the Twentieth Century Society to list the estate, instead giving it immunity from listing for five years.
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No let-up as HOK slashes UK staff
Architects are continuing to haemorrhage staff, with the fourth biggest firm in the world the latest to cut UK jobs, despite growing evidence of green shoots of recovery in other areas of construction
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Hub for the Highlands
Scottish firm 7N Architects has submitted a masterplan for a new 87ha education campus for Inverness for outline permission