All Building Design articles in 27 August 2010
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Review
Florian Beigel and Philip Christou discuss Saemangeum and the Venice Biennale
The architects from the Architecture Research Unit at the London Metropolitan University talk exclusively to BD about taking their mammoth masterplan for a new city in South Korea to the 2010 Venice Biennale.
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News
RIAS alarm at Scottish National Trust report
The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland has written to the National Trust for Scotland asking for an urgent meeting about the future of the historic properties it manages.
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Gloomy growth forecast for the construction industry
The construction industry is set to contract in 2011 according to a revised growth forecast by the Construction Products Association.
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Fred Goodwin linked with RMJM executive departures
RMJM has lost four of its senior executives since former Royal Bank of Scotland boss Fred Goodwin was controversially appointed as an adviser to the firm.
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Nicol Thomas faces Birmingham heritage battle
Conservationists are fighting to stop Nicol Thomas Architects from building a £40 million retirement village in Birmingham because it would destroy a row of fine Victorian and Edwardian villas.
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Features
Romania shines at the Venice biennale
The Giardini’s other pavilions fell somewhere along usual spectrum between artistic whimsy and corporate sales pitch, the most successful standing out for the powerful execution of a single idea.
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Ed Balls demands £6bn investment in affordable homes
The government must invest £6 billion in a programme to build 100,000 new affordable homes, according to Labour leadership candidate Ed Balls.
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Review
The sprawling Venice biennale offers frustrations and rewards
The sprawling labyrinth of the Giardini’s Palazzo delle Esposizioni (formerly Italian pavilion) continues the well-paced tempo of the Arsenale, only shifting slightly from the shock and awe tactic of immersive installations to a greater emphasis on exhibiting built projects, and artists whose work tackles the wider social and political of ...
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Review
The 2010 architecture biennale goes 3D for an invigorating exhibition
Entering this year’s Arsenale I was greeted with a surreal vision of the future. Hoards of revering onlookers, 3D glasses strapped to their faces, mouths agape, as images of Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa zooming around their EPFL campus on Segway scooters flashed before their eyes.
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Anshen & Allen bought by Canadian firm
Canadian practice Stantec has bought Anshen & Allen to beef up its healthcare expertise.
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Bahrain Pavilion scoops the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale
The Kingdom of Bahrain has won the Golden Lion award at the Venice Biennale for the best national pavilion.
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Review
Cultural Guide: Aug 31- Sept 5
This week’s cultural guide finds the interior of the Nunnery gallery in Bow, totally transformed by architectural interventions and we also take a trip back in time to the seventies.
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News
Van Egeraat beats Adjaye to win Russian University project
Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat has won a commission to design a new university on the outskirts of Moscow beating a bid from David Adjaye in the process.
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Falconer Chester Hall win approval for hotel and retail development in Liverpool
A hotel and retail scheme by Liverpool firm Falconer Chester Hall in the city has been approved by local planners.
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Scott Wilson lands Hampshire masterplan
Scott Wilson has been appointed to masterplan for a new community just outside Fareham, Hampshire.
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David Morley wins planning for Olympic water polo venue
David Morley Architects’ designs for a temporary water polo arena at the 2012 Olympic games have been handed planning permission.
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Review
People take centre stage at 2010 architecture biennale
“People meet in Architecture” is the rather quaint title of this year’s biannual frenzy of cocktail parties and free bags in Venice, nimbly curated by Kazuyo Sejima of SANAA. Trumpeting architecture’s noble role as a backdrop to the lives that inhabit it – or perhaps a sardonic critique of the ...
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Pelli Clarke Pelli tower to join Empire State on NY skyline
A tower nearly as tall as the Empire State Building in New York has been given planning permission by city authorities.
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Zaha Hadid designs first project for her native Iraq
Central Bank headquarters in Baghdad will be a symbol of the new nation, says practice
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Bank freeze led us to axe staff, says practice boss
The man in charge of Jefferson Sheard Architects (UK) Limited when it plunged into administration earlier this month has said he was forced to take the action because its bank refused to lend it any more money