All Building Design articles in 20 February 2009
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News
Hopkins' Mike Taylor cycles to Mipim in Cannes
Mike Taylor, a director at Hopkins Architects, will be reporting live from the Cycle to Cannes ride for BD. So why is he attempting the daunting 1,500km challenge?
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Steven Holl's 4 in1 Shenzhen tower
Steven Holl Architects has won a competition to design the masterplan of the 4 in 1 tower in Shenzhen.
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Review
Alvaro Siza: intensity through dialogue
Alvaro Siza, who will receive the Royal Gold Medal at RIBA tonight, talks to Ellis Woodman about his influences
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News
Today tracks architect jobseeker
Thirty-year-old architect Lucy Bennett appeared on BBC Radio 4’s flagship Today programme on Thursday as part of a long-running feature on people who have lost their jobs during the recession.
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Pritzker winner Sverre Fehn dies
Norwegian Priztker Prize winner Sverre Fehn died on Monday at the age of 84.
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Features
Inspiration begins at home
Can’t afford to take staff on a three-day break to an exotic foreign location? Never mind, says Keith Bradley of Fielden Clegg Bradley Studios. The creative juices flow just as well at home.
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Approvals system delays nine PFI hospitals
Hold ups fly in face of government pledge to speed up public works
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3XN wins competition for Danish arts museum
3XN has won an architecture competition to design the new Randers Museum of Art in Denmark, beating a shortlist that included Zaha Hadid and Coop Himmelb(l)au
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Competitions
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Substantial changes made to Chelsea Barracks scheme
Plans by Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners for the redevelopment of Chelsea Barracks have been substantially overhauled, with Thomas Heatherwick brought on board to oversee a new landscaping strategy reflecting the site’s military history.
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Grimshaw to develop Reading Station
Grimshaw has been appointed by Network Rail as part of a multi-disciplinary team to redevelop Reading Station.
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Helsinki Zoo’s redevelopment by Beckmann-N’Thépé Agency
French architect Beckmann-N’Thépé Agency has unveiled images of its proposed redevelopment of Finland’s largest zoo on Korkeasaari island near Helsinki.
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Barker calls for £6.3bn investment in affordable homes
Economist and housing expert Kate Barker has called on the government to invest £6.3 billion in building 100,000 affordable homes in the next two years.
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Japan's Sanaa to design this year's Serpentine Pavilion
First English project for practice founders Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa
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Building Study
Diller Scofidio & Renfro's refit of Alice Tully Hall at New York's Lincoln Center
I don’t think I’ve ever seen an ovation for a wall, but I did on Sunday night.
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News
David Rockwell's 2009 Oscar's set
This year's Oscar's stage was designed by David Rockwell – the first architect to win the commission.
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Review
Corbusier exhibition in the Barbican (slideshow)
Le Corbusier: The Art of Architecture opened at the Barbican Art Gallery last week, see how the exhibition looks in its new space.
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Review
BD's guide to your cultural week: February 25 to March 1
From the RIBA gold medal lecture to Swiss designers at the Lighthouse, BD's deputy editor Liz Bury rounds-up the best cultural events coming up this week.
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News
HCA offers Urban Splash project emergency funding
Urban Splash’s scheme to redevelop the grade-II star listed Park Hill estate in Sheffield has been hit by a shortfall in private financing, prompting the government’s new Homes and Communities Agency to offer it emergency funding.
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Gehry’s Vegas brain building nears completion
While other starchitects’ projects falter in the global recession, it’s reassuring to see progress being made on Frank Gehry’s Lou Ruvo Brain Institute in Las Vegas.