All Building Design articles in 25 June 2010
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New Islington Site Life competition launches
BD’s sister title has Property Week has teamed up with developer Urban Splash to launch a competition for a vacant site within the New Islington development in Manchester.
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Bath Spa compensation revealed as £7 million
Grimshaw and Carillion paid Bath Council £7 million in compensation over the Bath Spa fiasco, it has emerged.
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The University of Westminster
This year’s summer show at the University of Westminster is a clean, uncluttered exhibition with a collection of highly polished drawings, animations and renders occupying a rigid series of studio spaces.
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Robert Adam's Witanhurst mansion refurbishment wins planning appeal
Robert Adam has scored a massive victory in his plans to revamp the largest private house in London not owned by a member of the royal family.
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Kent School of Architecture
The students of Kent School of Architecture are clearly skilled draughtsmen and technicians, but some of them need to learn to take themselves less seriously and have a bit more fun with their work.
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University of Bath
Bath is one of the few remaining major schools that doesn’t structure its programme around the unit system, and instead relies on the students to develop their own positions in relation to common briefs and areas of focus.
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The London Festival of Architecture 2010 - the best of the rest
The London Festival of Architecture 2010 draws to a close this weekend, with a final flurry focused around London’s South Bank. But if you haven’t made it to any of the talks, walks, bike rides or open studios yet, don’t worry, there are still plenty of interesting events happening all ...
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Cabe pours praise on Haworth Tompkins' Everyman
Cabe has showered praise on Haworth Tompkins’ designs for the £28 million Everyman Theatre redevelopment in Liverpool.
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Decentralisation minister says new rules will make development more popular with locals
The man in charge of pushing through the government’s localism agenda has said he wants to reverse the view that all development work is bad.
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Heneghan Peng unveils first images of Greenwich architecture school
The first images of Heneghan Peng’s design for the University of Greenwich’s £76 million School of Architecture and Construction have been unveiled as part of a public consultation.
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Heatherwick's pavilion scoops the Lubetkin
The RIBA has named Heatherwick Studios’ UK pavilion at the Shanghai Expo as the winner of this year’s Lubetkin prize.
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46 year old architectural technician is boxing heavyweight champion
An associate at Cardiff firm HLN Architects has just become the unlicensed boxing British heavyweight champion – at the age of 46.
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Architect designs set for opera in former gulag
UK-based architect Charlotte Skene Catling has collaborated with director Michael Hunt to design the set for the staging of Beethoven’s opera, Fidelio, in the remains of the last functioning Gulag in Russia.
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Temporary bookshop is open and shut case
Created by design studio Campaign, RIBA Bookshops and Claire Curtice Publicists, the Foldaway Bookshop is a specialist architecture bookshop open for the London Festival of Architecture.
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Metropolitan Journeys
The Redundant Architects Recreation Association played host to the latest screening of Dicussions on Film as part of the London Festival of Architecture.
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Newcastle University
The Newcastle University show was more organised and coherent than it has been in previous years.
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Glasgow School of Art
The site models of the various cities on show at the Glasgow School of Art were exciting and at times awe-inspiring.
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Edinburgh College of Art
The Architecture Exhibition at the Edinburgh College of Art showed glimmers of inspiration, born out of an environment that allows individuals to flourish in their own unique style.
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RIBA presents Coe with honorary fellowship
Olympics chief Sebastian Coe has been presented with an honorary fellowship of the RIBA.
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Government scraps infrastructure agency
The Infrastructure Planning Commission is to be scrapped just eight months after it was set up.