All Building Design articles in 19 June 2009
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Review
BD’s guide to your cultural week: June 29 to July 5
The much anticipated retrospective on Jan Kaplický opens this week at the Design Museum as well as a chance to enjoy Zaha Hadid’s transformed Manchester Art Gallery, with a Bach accompaniment. If that doesn’t tickle your fancy then how about testing your mettle against Popeye with Jeff Koon’s latest exhibition, ...
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News
RIBA unveils new hardship scheme for students
The RIBA has unveiled a new hardship scheme for students, the Walter Parker Bursary, which will provide 40 bursaries of £500 to help Part 1 students in professional experience.
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News
Nicholas Hare scoops top school design award
Nicholas Hare Architects has been named best school architect at the British Council for School Environments Awards.
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News
Golden Square gets green light
A team including Bryant Priest Newman Architects, Capita Lovejoy and artist David Patten have won a competition to design a new square in the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham.
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DSDHA's Guildford schools unveiled
The DSDHA designed Christ’s College Secondary School and Pond Meadow Special Needs School in Guildford, Surrey, have been formally opened by the Duke of Edinburgh.
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John Robertson go to town on circus
John Robertson Architects has completed the £64 million refurbishment of the Grade II listed Park House on London’s Finsbury Circus.
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Opinion
Mousavi the architect
The Western world is gripped by the pictures, video footage and twitter correspondence still flooding out of Iran despite the ruling party’s best efforts to stem the flow - and in almost all of the sympathetic coverage, opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi has been described as an artist and architect.
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News
Olympic media centre wins planning
The Olympic Delivery Authority has won planning permission for the International Broadcast Centre and main press centre on the Olympic Park site in Stratford, after last-minute alterations were made to the designs.
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National Trust launches fundraising campaign for Giants Causeway
The National Trust has launched a public campaign to raise £2.25 million towards Heneghan Peng’s Giant’s Causeway million visitor’s centre.
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Tempelhof take-off
A team comprising British practices Chora and Gross Max and engineer Buro Happold has been selected as joint winner of the ideas competition to redesign Germany’s Berlin Tempelhof Airport.
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News
GMW's Bulgarian shopping centre gets go ahead
UK practice GMW Architects has won approval from the municipal authority for a new shopping centre in Burgas, Bulgaria.
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Gibb beats reform group candidate to be elected Arb vice chair
New board member architect Gordon Gibb has beaten Reform Group stalwart George Oldham to be elected vice-chair of the Arb.
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Review
Which London building would you save from aliens?
Open House is to launch its Open House Lives of Buildings weekend on Friday (June 26) with a “Battle of the Buildings” debate.
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News
RMJM to design athletes village for Glasgow Commonwealth Games (fly-through)
RMJM has won the competition to design the £300 million athletes village for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
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RIAI 2009 award winners unveiled
O'Donnell & Tuomey, BDP, Grafton Architects and Keith Williams Architects and Office of Public Works in Ireland are among the big-name winners at this year's Royal Institute of Architects in Ireland's Irish Architecture Awards.
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Chetwood suggests housing pods for MPs
Architect Laurie Chetwood has designed a new method of housing MPs without any room for suspect second home payments or unseemly profiteering from rising house prices.
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Robin Hood Gardens exhibition will keep up pressure to save estate
The Twentieth Century Society has pledged to keep up efforts to save Robin Hood Gardens from demolition with the launch of a new exhibition at the RIBA.
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Half 1999’s buildings at risk have been saved, says English Heritage
Campaigners have welcomed news from English Heritage that almost half the grade I and grade II* listed buildings and monuments on its At Risk register a decade ago are no longer under threat.
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OMA triumphs in China’s Crystal Island contest
OMA has won first prize in an international design competition to develop a proposal for a creative centre in the city of Shenzhen, China.