All Building Design articles in 21 May 2010
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Competitions
To let: Studio space in Shoreditch
Charlotte Road, Shoreditch; converted warehouse studio space in a shared office.
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News
In Detail: Haworth Tompkins submits Everyman Theatre plans
Haworth Tompkins’ competition-winning scheme for a new £28 million theatre in Liverpool has been submitted for planning this week.
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Review
June 2010 titles for review
For June BD’s book club takes a closer look at Maggie’s Centres, discovers a no-nonsense guide to sustainability and mulls over why architecture matters.
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News
Approval for Feilden Clegg Bradley observatory
Feilden Clegg Bradley’s new visitor centre at Manchester University’s Jodrell Bank Observatory has been approved.
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News
LA art museum shortlist includes Koolhaas, Herzog & de Meuron and Foreign Office
American philanthropist and art collector Eli Broad has confirmed a six-strong shortlist for his new art museum in Los Angeles.
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News
US survey shows hopes of recovery
Latest results from the American Institute of Architects monthly billings index have bolstered hopes of a recovery for the profession in the US.
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Opinion
Quangos quiver under Osborne's axe
Today is the dry run for the pain ahead, but already squeals can be heard from Cabe, from English Heritage and from the Tate. All have lost 3% of their annual budget, which doesn’t sound so bad, but Cabe is facing cuts of up to £800,000 in its annual budget, ...
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News
Qatari Diar MD had doubts from start about Rogers scheme
The managing director of Qatari Diar, one of the companies behind the proposed redevelopment of Chelsea Barracks, said he had concerns from the start that the scheme by Rogers Stirk Harbour did not represent value for money.
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News
Cabe and EH and Tate all face cuts this year
Cabe, English Heritage and the Tate Gallery are being asked to cut a combined £7 million from their budgets this year as part of the government’s £6.2 billion in spending cuts.
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News
Six shortlisted to reclad St Thomas' Hospital tower
AHMM, Grimshaw and Hopkins are among six teams shortlisted for a second RIBA competition for Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.
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Review
Cultural Week: May 24-30
This week, BD’s cultural eye turns to Clerkenwell with the opening of design week, the three-day annual festival of all things creative. Elsewhere it’s doomsday for architects as mantownhuman holds a debate on the moralistic mantle of design.
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News
Dan Brill's surfers' bridge is people's choice in California
Hampshire practice Dan Brill Architects has won a People’s Choice award in an international bridge competition on America’s west coast.
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News
Lubetkin health centre's future will be decided in July
The health authority in charge of Lubetkin’s threatened Finsbury Health Centre is expected to make a decision on its future in July.
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News
Aberdeen arts centre commissioner loses her job
The client on Brisac Gonzalez’s scheme for an arts centre in Aberdeen has lost her job after the project was scrapped in favour of a rival.
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Opinion
Surrey Quays, the real Tory heartland
The Conservative non-planners of the eighties have never been held to account for their legacy
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News
Guggenheim restaurant wins
New York-based architect Andre Kikoski has won the James Beard Foundation award for Outstanding Restaurant Design for his design of The Wright restaurant in the Guggenheim Museum
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News
BD launches an opinion poll on the three RIBA presidential candidates.
We are giving you the chance to show your support for the person you want to see as the next president of the RIBA.
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Opinion
What a difference a day makes
The new architecture and heritage minister is not, after all, Ed Vaizey but John Penrose, who until the election was shadow minister for business, enterprise and regulatory reform.
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News
Shock announcement sees Penrose replacing Vaizey as architecture minister
The DCMS yesterday performed an extraordinary U-turn by announcing that Ed Vaizey will not serve as architecture minister.
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News
Kent school building programme in limbo as major cuts loom
Architects await government decision on future of £1.2bn second phase.