All Building Design articles in 21 November 2008
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ReviewEducation Now: Building on last year's success
Now in its second year, Education Now is set to return on the 10th and 11th June. This fully online and interactive event provides industry professionals with a unique platform to learn, discuss and share knowledge of the education sector and its importance within the built environment industry.
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NewsLondon’s 11.04 to build Nigeria charity HQ in Rivers State
London-based practice 11.04 has won the go-ahead to build the headquarters of a new charitable foundation in Nigeria after helping to raise £5 million for the project at a single fundraising event.
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NewsPublic toilets become gallery space
A former public toilet block in Teddington - The Powder Rooms - has been transformed into a new home for architectural practice, Architecture WK.
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NewsPrince of Wales opens Eastbrook Hall restoration
Eastbrook Hall in the Little Germany area of Bradford has been opened by the Prince of Wales following its restoration by a team headed by the Prince’s Regeneration Trust and designed by Brewster Bye Architects.
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ReviewBD Event: Virtual Careers Fair – February 18 &19, 2009
BD's Virtual Careers Fair is an opportunity for recruiters and candidates to interact in real time without leaving the office.
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NewsAmerican architects reach out to Obama
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has offered its services as an advisor on urban development policy and green buildings to US president-elect Barak Obama.
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NewsLCE's Lancing College
LCE Architects has completed this 1,000sq m art building for private school Lancing College in West Sussex.
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NewsAukett is ditched from pioneering eco-home
Aukett Fitzroy Robinson has been axed as the architect of a pioneering eco-home set to be built using hemp at the Building Research Establishment’s innovation park.
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NewsFollett joins Scott Antarctica hut campaign
Architecture minister Barbara Follett has joined the campaign to save a hut in Antarctica used by Captain Scott.
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NewsBeckett insists Thames Gateway remains on track (video)
The development of the Thames Gateway will not fall behind schedule because of the impending recession, housing minister Margaret Beckett has insisted.
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Architects warned Middle East is not work 'utopia'
The Middle East is not a “utopia” of work opportunities, architects were warned at the first of RIBA London's world cities debates.
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NewsZaha's flower sculpture goes to New York
A series of sculptures designed by Zaha Hadid are currently on display in New York including a version of her Kloris sculpture which is part of a permanent exhibition in Derbyshire.
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MultimediaWill Alsop's urban manifesto (video)
Watch and listen to Will Alsop’s “Street Creatures” lecture on urban influences – included Corbusier – and the importance of experiencing architecture.
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NewsEllis Woodman on I.M. Pei's Museum of Islamic Art
BD’s buildings editor Ellis Woodman visits I.M. Pei’s new Museum of Islamic Art in Doha and suggests the handsome building offers a clear rebuke to flamboyant architecture elsewhere in the Gulf.
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NewsStudio Seilern’s Forrester house
Work has begun on Christina Seilern’s first commission since her departure from Rafael Viñoly Architects.
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RIBA president welcomes government's recession measures
RIBA president Sunand Prasad has welcomed yesterday's pre-budget report by chancellor Alistair Darling, which the government claims will avert the worst consequences of the recession. Key pledges include bringing forward £3 billion of public capital expenditure from 2010/11 to 2009/10 for schools, housing and transport, cutting VAT from 17.5% to ...
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NewsBrit architecture grads rack up win for New York bike park
An entry by British architecture graduates Anthony Lau and Jessica Lee has been selected as a joint winner of New York’s City Racks international design competition to create a bike park, alongside that of US practice RSVP Studio.
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Gareth Hoskins Architects wins Hadrian’s Wall competition
Gareth Hoskins has won the controversial competition to design a major new visitor centre at Hadrian’s Wall.
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NewsI.M. Pei's Qatar Museum of Islamic Art
I.M. Pei’s Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar is to open to the public on Monday December 1st.
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NewsIngenhoven Architects wins International Criminal Court competition
Düsseldorf-based practice Ingenhoven Architects has won first prize in a competition to design a new permanent home for the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague, plus a cash award of €60,000.