All Building Design articles in 16 May 2008
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NewsCaruso St John and dRMM among seven architects picked to join 2012 Athletes Village team
Seven leading architects have been appointed to join the team designing the £2 billion London Athletes Village amid a renewed focus on design quality.As the International Olympic Committee visited the capital to check on 2012 progress this week, Athletes Village developer Lend Lease announced it had appointed de Rijke Marsh ...
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NewsLipton warns that London's planning sector is over-reliant on Australians
Developer and former Cabe chairman Stuart Lipton has warned MPs that London’s planning sector is over reliant on short-term agency staff from Australia — a situation he claimed is creating a “stop-go” development culture.Speaking at a Parliamentary debate on Monday hosted by the All Party Parliamentary Built Environment Group, Lipton ...
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ReviewClaire Barclay: Shifting Ground- until June 29
Camden Arts Centre presents a new sculptural installation by Glasgow based artist Claire Barclay. Partly inspired by the physical nature of the gallery, her new work responds to the architectural features, the light and context of Camden Arts Centre as a place for the production and reception of fine art ...
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NewsRobert Gordon University picks BDP as sole designer for new campus
BDP is to design the campus for Aberdeen’s Robert Gordon University and six of its buildings, including a new school of architecture. The university’s director of estates Mike Berry said that while it was unusual for one architect to design all the buildings within a masterplan, this approach would help ...
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ReviewProspects and Interiors: Recent Acquisitions of Sculptors’ Drawings- until August 24
A closer look at amongst other work; the perspective drawings of imagined and real, architectural interiors by leading contemporary sculptors. Featured in the collection are their representations of interior space, both physical and mental with many tackling the difficult task of finding a way to represent space, as matter.
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ReviewHotel Elephant: Reuben Powell- until December 24
Enjoying a place in the sun as one of the London Festival of Architecture’s festival hubs this year; Reuben Powell, artist in residence at the Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre, has been busily charting the £1.5 billion regeneration of the rapidly changing area- of which he has himself been a ...
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ReviewIntervention/Decoration - until June 21
Drawing on the rich social and architectural fabric of the historic South West town of Frome; artists including Cornelia Parker and Richard Woods impose new structures and artwork on radically different spaces. These range from established galleries to neglected buildings; with the aim of exploring how artists use decoration ...
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ReviewUrban Encounters: Changing Spaces- until June 21
Changing Spaces brings together five photographers whose work addresses the changing nature of urban space. The exhibition reflects on a range of visual styles, narratives and research methodologies drawing on documentary, fine art and landscape practices, in order to investigate how urban space is constructed through the perceptions, intuitions ...
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ReviewSome Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo: Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa - until October 26
London and Tokyo face similar urban development issues, due to their scale, extensive built environment, and existing efforts to grow the city from within; but they occupy cultural contexts and require different and distinct, problem-solving solutions.
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ReviewShow RCA Two: June 25 to July 5
Exhibition by graduating students from the post-graduate courses of Architecture, Animation, Communications, Design, Vehicle Design, Fashion and Textiles at the Royal College of Art. Architecture students will also be taking part in events for London Architecture Festival along Exhibition Road in South Kensington.
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ReviewConstructed: 40 Years of the UEA Collection- until December 14
A major exhibition of the UEA Collection of Abstract and Constructivist Art, Architecture and Design will open at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts this July. Exhibits include architectural models of Stephen Gilbert's House Model 'Neovision' (1955) and a reconstruction of the Vesnin Brothers Pravda Tower, as well as furniture, ...
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BlogsNews Junkie — 17 and 18 May
Housing market problems spread to eco-towns and public construction. Maverick local snagger in Eastbourne and mammoth Minnesota timber recycling.
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NewsEnglish Heritage defends its failure to back Robin Hood Gardens
EH chair says estate 'fails as a place for human beings to live'. Read the statement; watch the video
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AnalysisBD speaks to OMA partner Reinier de Graaf
Reinier de Graaf on the Delft University fire, his plans for the Commonwealth Institute and why Boris is good news for White City
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NewsFire devastates Delft architecture faculty
Coffee machine short circuit causes blaze; Delft students and former students share their comments
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NewsEisenman: computers dumb down design
Peter Eisenman used the platform at RIAS 2008 to bemoan a culture of passivity among students of architecture
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Opinion
Well versed
Director of the 2008 Venice Biennale Aaron Betsky finally explained his vision for the show to a packed house at the Italian Cultural Institute in London last week.
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Technical
Up on the roof
A solar water heater designed to sit within the roofscape has been launched in the UK.