All Building Design articles in 17 October 2008
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Work starts on LCE Architects’ eco-friendly sports centre
Designs for a £4.3 million eco-friendly sports and community centre by LCE Architects have been unveiled by Westminster City Council.
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Oslo scraps Koolhaas library design
Rem Koolhaas’s design for a new central library in Oslo, Norway, has been scrapped, after the city decided to re-locate the library to a site near the Snøhetta designed opera house in Bjørvika.
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Boris proposes three-year plan for affordable homes
Mayor Boris Johnson has opened negotiations with London boroughs to agree a programme to deliver 50,000 affordable homes over the next three years.
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RIBA joins forces with recruitment firm for new part II bursary
The RIBA has launched an annual £10,000 bursary scheme for promising but hard-up architecture students.
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MAD's Superstar scheme
Archibabble has returned, not that the pretentious twaddle architects are capable of ever went away, but we’re re-starting our search for the worst of “wisdom” shared. Here’s our first particularly mad entry.
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Astearchitecture’s platform perches in the Austrian Tyrol
Austrian practice Astearchitecture has designed this steel and timber viewing platform, which perches 3,200m above sea level on Mount Isidor in Tyrol, western Austria.
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Make at the movies
Make’s designs for a stainless steel luxury hotel and Odeon cinema on Leicester Square in central London have been approved by Westminster City Council.
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American architecture billings index shows drop-off in government work
The latest American Architectural Association’s Architecture Billings Index suggests that previously safe government work has begun to be hit by the credit crunch.
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Technical
Architect to show Code Level 5 house at Interbuild
Woodward Smith Architects-designed family house on show at Birmingham exhibition next week
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Moxon's 'hedgehog' office submitted for planning
Moxon’s designs for an £8 million spiky office building, already dubbed the "hedgehog" have been submitted for planning in Preston, Lancashire.
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Technical
A case for Passivhaus
In the first of a series on Passivhaus sustainability expert Henrietta Lynch runs through the basics principles behind what is rapidly growing as a standard for low energy design for all types of buildings on the Continent
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Fuksas' Peres Peace House to open in Israel
A ceremony to inaugurate the Peres Peace House at Jaffa in Israel, by Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas, is to be held this week.
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Cabe can't let Victoria scheme go
Cabe still has major concerns about Kohn Pederson Fox’s (KPF) troubled masterplan for Victoria in central London, despite a massive overhaul of the proposals, BD has learnt.
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Delft ideas competition is first step to rebuild fire-ravaged architecture faculty
Delft University of Technology, TU Delft, has launched an international ideas competition to re-design its faculty of architecture building, which was devastated by fire earlier this year.
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Features
Student's 'chip shop' pier design wins competition
A pier design inspired by a chip shop and a tea house has won the top award in a student competition to design a water feature for New Brighton in Merseyside.
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Cabe lukewarm on Fosters' Crossrail station
Cabe has given a cautious welcome to Foster & Partners’ design for a Crossrail station at Canary Wharf.
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Sweeping to victory
The Manser Practice’s Barry Mullin has won this year’s overall RIBA Downland Prize.
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Angus Meek wins Weston-super-Mare pier rebuild
Bristol-based architect Angus Meek Architects has won the competition to redevelop Weston-super-Mare’s fire-ravaged Grand Pier, beating off competition from five firms including Grimshaw.
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Calatrava makes legal claim on Chicago property after fee dispute
Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava has filed a lien — a legal claim to a property —against the Irish developer of the Chicago Spire in North America, claiming he is owed in excess of $11.3 million (£6.5 million).