All Building Design articles in 25 March 2011
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Review
Food on the Move by David Lawrence
This study of motorway services takes readers on a memorable journey
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News
Nicholas Hare wins planning for Kettering academy
Nicholas Hare Architects has won planning for its Kettering Buccleuch Academy for 1,770 children aged from 4 to 19.The 12,500sq m school, in Northamptonshire, will allow the whole academy to be located together on the same site for the first time, giving all students access to a wider range of ...
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Record number of entries for Save's Buildings at Risk register
Conservationists and volunteers have uncovered a record number of buildings around the country that are seriously threatened by neglect.More than 130 buildings were submitted to Save Britain’s Heritage this year, making this year’s Buildings at Risk catalogue its biggest yet, with new sections on Scotland and Northern Ireland.“We had a ...
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News
UN Studio's Korean shopping centre opens
Facade is wrapped in world’s largest illuminated surface
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Earth Centre to become children's activity centre
The failed Earth Centre near Doncaster, with buildings by Feilden Clegg Bradley and Will Alsop, has been sold for an undisclosed sum seven years after it closed.New owner, outdoor education expert Kingswood, will turn it into a school activity centre. It beat a rival bid by a consortium including Arup ...
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Spurs' lawyers raise concerns over West Ham's Olympic victory
But Olympic chiefs insist they have done nothing wrong
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Eduardo Souto de Moura wins the 2011 Pritzker Prize
Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura has been named winner of the 2011 Pritzker Prize, one of architecture’s most prestigious honours.He will receive a $100,000 grant and a bronze medallion at a ceremony in Washington DC this June.The 58-year-old architect, who worked in the office of 1992’s Pritzker winner, Alvaro ...
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Architects design Regent Street window displays
DSDHA and Duggan Morris among practices involved
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Populous's Olympic hockey pitches get the blues
The pitches in Populous’s Olympic Hockey Centre will be blue, making 2012 the first time Olympic field hockey is played on any colour other than green.
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Nightingale's Cardiff University research centre wins go-ahead
Nightingale Associates’ design for a new research building at Cardiff University has received planning permission.The £30 million scientific research facility will be built on the site of a derelict railway, providing 9,000sq m of new laboratory space for the Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics & Genomics and two new institutes covering ...
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RIBA councillor Chris Roche resigns over London region unrest
RIBA Council member Chris Roche has resigned as a result of the unrest in the RIBA London region last year.The resignation follows last Thursday’s RIBA Council meeting when Roche put forward a motion asking for a public apology from Ruth Reed to himself and former London region chair Azar Djamali.Last ...
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Competitions
To Let: 2 x double bedroom house in converted stable, Cuckfield, West Sussex
Central heating and off-road parking. The property is in the heart of this small, pretty and much sought after village, about 3 miles due east of the A23 serving the M25, Gatwick International airport, Brighton and the coast.
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Amanda Levete triumphs in V&A contest
Former Future Systems partner will design temporary exhibitions galleries
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Jailed architect has sentence reduced
A disgraced architect who conned a family into spending £6,500 on work he never carried out has had his prison sentence reduced at the Court of Appeal in London.Workington-based Richard John Lindsay, 64, was jailed for nearly four years at Carlisle Crown Court last November, after pleading guilty to one ...
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News
Heritage lottery
Among the rumours about the V&A post is that Simon Thurley, debonair head of English Heritage, is also in the running.
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Review
Cultural Guide: March 28- April 2
This week’s cultural guide gets to grips with Stirling and Gowan’s Leicester Engineering Building amongst other highlights
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News
Cash crisis ends Dublin hall contest
Cancellation leaves finalists 3XN and Henning Larsen out in the cold