All Building Design articles in 18 July 2008
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NewsRuth Reed elected first woman RIBA president
Ruth Reed has been elected the first woman president of RIBA.
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Capita Architecture reports bumper first-half results
Capita Symonds, parent company of Capita Architecture, has reported a strong set of mid-year results, despite the impact of the credit crunch.
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NewsBootleg Lilos win Architecture Rocks (video)
The Bootleg Lilos triumphed at the London Festival of Architecture closing party to win the battle of the bands.
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Government announces standards for eco-town buildings and green space
The government has set out standards for eco-towns that would require all buildings in an eco-town to be zero carbon and for 40% of land within the town to be designated as green space.
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NewsAlsop’s designs for Putney towers submitted for planning
Plans for two Will Alsop-designed towers on a site opposite East Putney Underground Station in south-west London have been submitted to Wandsworth Council.
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NewsKuwait unveils plans for massive Silk City development
The Kuwaiti government has announced it is to use profits from the rise in oil prices to invest £66 billion in Silk City, a massive new metropolis in the Gulf designed by Eric R Kulne Associates.
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MPs: Planning system has chronic problems
The Communities & Local Government Committee has criticised “chronic problems” in the planning system, in a report issued on Thursday.
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NewsCourt tells Arb to stay action against Ian Salisbury
The Architects’ Registration Board was on Wednesday ordered by the High Court to stay disciplinary proceedings against former board member Ian Salisbury (pictured) for failing to provide evidence that he had professional indemnity insurance.
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Crossrail wins final parliamentary approval
Parliament has given the go-ahead to Crossrail, which received royal assent on the last day before the summer recess.
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ReviewGormley and Chipperfield three-way pavilion opens in Sweden
David Chipperfield and Antony Gormley’s pavilion for the Kivik Art Centre in south-east Sweden has opened to the public.
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NewsRitchie blasts 'nimbyism' over axed Avon bridge
Ian Ritchie has hit back at a decision to scrap his design for a “world class” bridge in Stratford-upon-Avon, accusing the organisations responsible of bowing to nimbyism.
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Crunch scales down Jewish centre plans
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands has been forced to scale back its designs for a flagship home for London’s Jewish Community Centre amid fundraising fears.
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FeaturesNottingham student takes Corus student architecture award
Nottingham, Cardiff and Southampton students triumph at the 2008 Corus Student Design Awards.
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AHMM's Westminster Academy is bookies’ favourite to win Stirling Prize
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris’s Westminster Academy the 3/1 favourite to win this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize, according to bookmaker William Hill.
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Building StudyGrey days are over in Clerkenwell
Wilkinson Eyre's London Festival of Architecture installation aims to be the start of a more permanent arts legacy in Benjamin Street Gardens, Clerkenwell.
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ReviewBuckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe- until September 21
One of the great American visionaries of the twentieth century, R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) endeavored to see what he, a single individual, might do to benefit the largest segment of humanity while consuming the minimum of the earth's resources.
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ReviewLondon`s Largest Living Room at Somerset House by Magdalena Majer
London`s Largest Living Room at Somerset House by Magdalena Majer
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ReviewAn exhibition showing the work of Structural Engineer, Price & Myers’ Geometrics group by Tim Metcalfe
An exhibition showing the work of Structural Engineer, Price & Myers’ Geometrics group by Tim Metcalfe
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ReviewPsycho Buildings at the Hayward: "Observatory, Air-Port-City" Tomas Saraceno by Su Chanprasong
Psycho Buildings at the Hayward: "Observatory, Air-Port-City" Tomas Saraceno by Su Chanprasong