All Building Design articles in 23 May 2008
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NewsOlympic Stadium’s latest design unveiled
See the latest designs for the London 2012 Olympic stadium and join in the debate about its design qualities.
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NewsRIBA 2008 awards winners announced
The best new buildings in Britain were announced today through the annual RIBA Regional Awards.
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ReviewCityscapes on display in Liverpool
Liverpool’s Walker Gallery is hosting an exhibition of artist Ben Johnson’s iconic cityscape paintings.
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NewsRoyal Institution reopens after Farrell’s renovations
The Queen today officially re-opened the grade-1 listed Royal Institution of Great Britain, which has been closed for the past two and half years for a £22 million upgrade.
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ReviewReview: Psycho Buildings - Artists & Architecture
BD reviews the brilliant new exhibition Psycho Buildings: Artists Take on Architecture, which opens this Wednesday to mark the Hayward’s 40th anniversary.
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NewsNouvel towers over Paris competition
Jean Nouvel has beaten Foster & Partners and Daniel Libeskind in a competition to design a landmark tower in Paris’s La Defense district. At 301m tall, the Signal Tower will be only 23m lower than the Eiffel Tower in the city centre.Credit: EPADAn internal view of shops inside Nouvel’s towerNouvel, ...
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BlogsNews Junkie: 24 - 26 May
Possible sites for Eco-towns found on Mars, English Heritage deny sixties heritage and Lancashire party wall wars.
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NewsRitchie hits out at Southwark Council over Potter’s Field
Ian Ritchie has spoken out against Southwark Council’s decision to engage a new architect for Potter’s Field.
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NewsView from the terrace
Planning permission has been awarded for a £1.5 million mixed-use development in the London Borough of Islington by Platform 5 Architects.
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Opinion
Reference points
Three points in Ellis Woodman’s review of Corpus Christi’s new Taylor Library (Works May 16) need clarification.
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Opinion
Place in the sun
Despite BD's revelation that Norman Foster has moved to Switzerland, the architect and peer has been honoured at the patriotic Sun newspaper’s Britain’s Best 2008 awards, for “his ground-breaking designs around the world”.
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NewsWait pays off for new-build scheme
After four years of trying, David Nossiter Architects has won planning consent for a new-build timber and glass house on a prominent corner of Honor Oak conservation area in south-east London.
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NewsVictorian museums refurb rest
Construction has started on Allies & Morrison’s £10 million refurbishment and extension of the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery in Exeter.
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Southampton model open to public
Southampton has become the first city outside London to exhibit a scale model of its built environment to the public.
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Opinion
Master’s voice
Like Richard Rogers, I was “critted” by Peter Smithson at the AA in the fifties.
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OpinionParty lines
Boots was surprised not to see Terence Conran’s business partner Des Gunewardena at the Conran summer party last week, although the two are now moving in opposite directions.
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Opinion
Labour pain
Richard Rogers’ increasingly political role is not to everyone’s liking if a recent profile in the New Statesman is anything to go by.
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News
Johnson snubs planning role
The Green Party has slammed London mayor Boris Johnson for giving his unelected deputy, Ian Clements, delegated powers to make planning decisions.
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Sheffield’s Sorby House opens
Bond Bryan Architects is celebrating the opening of Sorby House in Sheffield, a centrepiece project for the 10-year regeneration of the Burngreave area.