All Building Design articles in 18 September 2009
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Robert Adam replaces Robert Stern on Chelsea Barracks shortlist
Robert AM Stern Architects has dropped out of the competition to design a new masterplan for the troubled Chelsea Barracks development in London.
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Hadid made Praemium Imperiale architecture laureate
Zaha Hadid has been awarded the Japan Art Association’s Praemium Imperiale Architecture Laureate for 2009.
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Alison Brooks wins Northampton University redevelopment project
Alison Brooks Architects has won her biggest project yet – a major RIBA competition to masterplan the redevelopment of Northampton University over the next 20 years.
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Exclusive: British Museum redesign
The first picture of redesigned Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners' £135 million British Museum extension has been revealed.
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Wassenaar to head Welsh arm of RIBA
Pierre Wassenaar of Stride Treglown’s Cardiff office has been named as the new president of the Royal Society of Architects in Wales.
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Allies & Morrison west London masterplan faces new setback
Allies & Morrison’s £4 billion Brent Cross Cricklewood masterplan is facing a further setback just days after Barnet Council's planners came out in favour of the scheme.
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RIBA trends survey shows architects’ confidence faltering
Optimism among architects is on the wane, with increasing numbers reporting a lack of work and fearing job cuts.
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Downland Prize recognises South’s best low-budget buildings
The RIBA has announced the winners of this year’s Downland Prize, for schemes in south and south-east England with a budget of less than £1 million.
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Sydney landmarks blanketed with dust
Sydney has been engulfed by millions of tonnes of red dust which have blown in from the outback.
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Eco-pods for stalled construction sites?
US practice Howeler & Yoon has proposed plans to fill a stalled construction block with a series of eco-pods capable of being moved by robotic arms in its home town of Boston.
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Buckminster girl gives thumbs up
The only surviving child of Buckminster Fuller, the architect who invented the geodesic dome, has visited Nicholas Grimshaw’s Eden Project for the first time and declared it “beyond my wildest dreams”.
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BDP makes splash with Nan Tou urban masterplan
BDP has won a competition to design a new town square, streets and a park in Nan Tou, a historic quarter of Shenzhen in China.
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Opposition grows to plan to sell off parkland to fund regeneration
Opposition is mounting to plans to sell off a tranche of west London parkland to fund its regeneration.
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Builders fined £130m for bid rigging
The Office of Fair Trading has fined more than 100 builders a total of nearly £130 million after finding them guilty of anti-competitive practice such as bid-rigging and cover pricing.
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Major boost for RMJM's Gazprom tower
RMJM’s proposals for Europe’s tallest skyscraper have received a major boost after authorities in St Petersburg agreed to waive planning rules banning buildings taller than 100 metres in the city.
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To let: serviced desk spaces in shared office in Borough
Open plan office includes meeting space, kitchenette (with cooking facilities), WC (with shower); and use of photocopier, printer, scanner, franking machine
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Margaret Hodge is architecture minister again
Margaret Hodge has been reappointed as architecture minister, in a shock move by 10 Downing Street.
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Design Engine's Oxford Brookes scheme refused planning
Design Engine’s £132 million redevelopment of Oxford Brookes University has been refused planning permission.
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Waghorn Gwynne's carbon neutral farmhouse gets planning
Dumfries & Galloway council has given Waghorn Gwynne Architects the green light for a sustainable farmhouse building.