All Building Design articles in 18 March 2011
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NewsBIG wins motorway junction competition with floating sphere design
BIG has won the Stockholmsporten masterplan competition to design an attractive new entrance to Stockholm at the intersection of a massive new motorway junction.
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NewsArchitects divided over what Budget 2011 means for built environment
Charles Holland of Fat brands Budget “pretty disastrous”.
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NewsRIBA row sends legal bill soaring
Last year’s London Region dispute proves pricey for the RIBA.
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NewsUS practice Inaba wins Norwegian art commission
Inaba, the Californian architecture and urbanism firm founded by Jeffrey Inaba, has been selected to design a permanent artwork for a new concert hall being built in Stavanger, Norway.The LA-based practice was chosen from a field of six invited international teams by Koro Public Art Norway.Its 8m x 13m cylindrical ...
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NewsHOK restores Kama Sutra translator's mausoleum
HOK has completed the restoration of the grade II* listed mausoleum of Richard Burton, the Victorian explorer and adventurer who translated the Kama Sutra.The mausoleum, which is in graveyard in Mortlake, south-west London, resembles the tent he used while travelling in the Middle East. It was built in 1891 and ...
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Cheltenham Art Gallery extension to start on site after lottery grant
Berman Guedes Stretton has been given the green light for its £6.3 million extension to Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum after the Heritage Lottery Fund awarded the project crucial funds.Work is now due to start on site this summer and could be completed by the end of next year.The Oxford ...
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NewsMorrison parachutes in new bosses to run RMJM's Hong Kong office
RMJM has dispatched two senior architects to run its Hong Kong office after it was hit by a series of defections and a blast by a managing principal, angry that staff wages were not being paid on time.Gordon Hood, currently managing principal of the global education studio at Princeton, New ...
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NewsRussian cathedral plan for Paris site sparks spy fears
Franco-Russian practice Sade-Arch has sparked fears of cold war-style espionage in the heart of Paris with its plans for a £30 million Russian Orthodox cathedral beside the Eiffel Tower.
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NewsCompetition to be held for £140m Aberdeen scheme
An international competition is to be held for a design to replace a planned scheme by Brisac Gonzalez in the middle of Aberdeen.
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NewsLondon practice Mossessian wins Moroccan competition
Architect beats hundreds to work on World Heritage Site
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NewsAdam wins planning for Hampshire community
Robert Adam’s practice Adam Architecture has won planning for a 211ha mixed-use development at Waterlooville in Hampshire.The development, Newlands, will contain 2,550 family homes as well as supporting social infrastructure including a community centre, land designated for healthcare and elderly care facilities, two primary schools and a nursery. As well ...
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NewsBasil Spence honoured by blue plaque
Coventry Cathedral designer Basil Spence has been honoured with an English Heritage blue plaque unveiled this morning (Wednesday) at his former home and office in north London.Spence, who died in 1976, was commissioned to design a new cathedral after the existing one was destroyed by German bombers during the second ...
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NewsColumbia University opens architecture outpost in Rio
New York architecture school expands global research project
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NewsHadid, Chipperfield and Nouvel shortlisted for Mies van der Rohe Award
Buildings by David Chipperfield, Zaha Hadid and Jean Nouvel have all been shortlisted for the 2011 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - the Mies van der Rohe Award.The shortlist of six also features Belgian practice MDMA, Paris-based Bernard Tschumi and Dutch company Koen van Velsen.They were shortlisted from 343 ...
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NewsCouncil backs Holl's Glasgow School of Art
Glasgow City Council’s planning committee has approved plans for Stephen Holl Architects’ new Glasgow School of Art building.The first phase of the £50 million scheme, designed with local practice JM Architects, is for a five-storey building opposite Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s building for the school.Holl said: “We are very pleased with ...
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NewsArchitects more optimistic about workloads, says RIBA survey
But concerns raised over fall in foreign projects
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NewsWandsworth hopeful of reviving more axed BSF schools
Wandsworth Council in south-west London is hoping to revive building schemes for two more schools axed under the BSF programme following a reprieve for two schools by AHMM and BDP.Work on the £70 million deal to rebuild Southfields Community College by BDP and AHMM’s Burntwood Secondary School will begin next ...
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ReviewEuropean Housing Concepts 1990-2010
I am sorry to say that many of the half dozen essays, which kick off this design review, feel portentous and lacking in original insight.