All Building Design articles in 25 July 2008
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Review
Wouldn’t it be Nice: Wishful Thinking in Art and Design- September 17 to December 7
Somerset House’s new major exhibition of contemporary art and design focuses on wit and subversion; exploring the common ground between the two fields.
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Review
Alan Aldridge : the Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes- until January 25
Alan Aldridge embodied the spirit of the 60s and 70s with his psychedelic images epitomising the feeling and art of an era. Aldridge’s designs and visual identity are usually credited with defining The Beatles image and music in a changing world.
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Review
Poland Street Underground- September 19 to September 20
The Polish Cultural Institute and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute brings us Poland Street Underground, a showcase of the best in Polish design and art, which this year is part of the London Design Festival.
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Review
Kew Tree Top Walkway & Rhizotron: Inspired by Nature- until September 28
Marks Barfield’s Rhizotron and Xstrata Tree Top Walkway offers spectacular at the Royal Botanical Gardens, in Kew Gardens’ ‘Year of the Tree’ festival
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Review
Fresh Flower Pavilion with st Pauls in the background by Michael Lin
Fresh Flower Pavilion with st Pauls in the background by Michael Lin
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News
Step up for Liverpool museum
The Museum of Liverpool has been granted £11 million by the Heritage Lottery Fund to complete its interior fit-out.
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News
Aukett’s shifts staff to focus on Middle East projects
Architectural giant Aukett Fitzroy Robinson has moved 30 of its design staff to work on projects in the Middle East and now expects half of its turnover to come from the region within the next three years.
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News
Save proposes alternative to Manchester homes demolition
Mark Hines Architects has teamed up with Save on a proposal aimed at stopping the demolition of 400 houses in east Manchester.
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News
Mixed-use scheme backed by Tesco could be The Public's new neighbour
Lyons Sleeman Hoare and Tesco have unveiled this new image of a mixed-use scheme, to stand next to Will Alsop’s The Public.
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Purcell Miller Tritton plans hotel for at-risk Manchester fire station
One of Manchester's “best loved landmarks” is to be transformed into a hotel under a £30 million scheme by Purcell Miller Tritton.
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Council urges Foster's to rethink Shoreditch tower plans
Foster & Partners should radically rework its controversial Bishop's Place scheme in London's East End, Hackney council has demanded.
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Fire destroys Weston Super Mare pier pavilion
The pavilion at Weston Super Mare's grade II listed Grand Pier has been destroyed by fire.Thirteen fire engines and more than 100 fire fighters and officers tackled the blaze, which is believed to have started at around 6.45am this morning (Monday). No one is believed injured.The 1904 Grand Pier, which ...
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Studio Egret West turns up the colour for Olympic visitor centre
Studio Egret West has completed a feasibility study for a 2012 Visitor Centre in Stratford, east London, to provide local people with more information about the games.
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Blogs
News Junkie: 26 and 27 July
Schools for the future slated, Olympics, Gehry in Hyde Park and U2 Hotel problems
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Review
Dancing to frozen music
A mobile installation for the London Festival of Architecture invited visitors to “bop to architecture”.
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News
Boris blocks progress of A&M towers in Lambeth
Boris Johnson has branded as “unacceptable” proposals for three Allies & Morrison-designed towers to be built close to Waterloo Station.
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Review
Xtreme self-build: Scrap Heap Challenge meets Grand Designs
Making a shed-cum-spare room from reclaimed items: get together a team of mates, pop to a woodland to find a few unloved trees, nose around some skips or a disused railway. Bit of edible paint, bit of copper guttering. What could be easier? An intrepid Finsbury Park couple found out ...
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Review
An open letter to the Oxford Conference
BDonline green columnists Jon Goodbun and Karin Jaschke step into the debate on architecture, sustainability and education in an open missive to Oxford delegates