All Building Design articles in 29 February 2008
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ReviewArchitecture after Communism: Bart Goldhoorn - March 17
Royal Academy of Arts Architecture Programme
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NewsHerzog & de Meuron among architects in running for Lord's cricket ground masterplan
Herzog & de Meuron and HOK Sport are among the practices bidding to draw up a £200 million masterplan for Lord’s cricket ground.Operator Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) is working with the Architecture Foundation to draw up a shortlist for the work at the famous sporting ground in north London which ...
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NewsPrizewinners throw their weight behind Robin Hood Gardens campaign
Gold medallists and Pritzker winners are among petition supporters
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NewsAllies & Morrison bags Olympic media centre
Practice led by Bob Allies and Graham Morrison edges out Hopkins Architects for the massive 2012 project
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D’Offay calls for a Guggenheim of the North
Art dealer Anthony D’Offay has called for a Guggenheim-style architectural landmark to house his contemporary art collection in Scotland. D’Offay sold 725 works worth £125 million to the Tate and National Galleries Scotland last week, at a fraction of their market value. The collection, arranged into 50 “artists rooms” and ...
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RIBA launches President’s Awards for Research 2008
RIBA has put out a call for entries for its 2008 award for architectural research. The prize, now in its third year, is divided into three categories: best PhD thesis at a RIBA-validated school; best university-based research; and best research carried out in a professional context. In 2007 the winners ...
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NewsHundreds of potential Olympic training venues announced
Stephen Hodder's Clissold Leisure Centre among those across the country bidding to host foreign teams
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NewsCall for entries for Prime Minister's Better Public Building Award 2008
Cabe has launched the Prime Minister's Better Public Building Award 2008 with a call for entries. The competition, now in its eighth year, celebrates high-quality design in public sector architecture. To be eligible, projects must have been commissioned by or on behalf of central or local government or an organisation ...
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BlogsNews Junkie — 01 and 02 March
Architecture found this week somewhere between ‘Homes and Gardens,’ ‘Environment’ and ‘Travel’ as News Junkie launches a new campaign to save the IBM building in Honolulu.
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CompetitionsFor sale - one bedroom flat for sale on sought after North London icon estate.
Situated in North Holloway's most sought after ex-council block, this one bedroom flat was recently renovated to a high standard by its Architect owners.
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NewsLivingstone to slash energy costs on GLA buildings
Mayor of London Ken Livingstone has launched a major new works programme that will see the Greater London Authority's public buildings retrofitted to reduce energy consumption by a quarter.Livingstone announced the project during a debate at the Ecobuild conference in London yesterday (Thursday February 28) which saw rival candidates for ...
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OpinionRobin Hood Gardens and the state of post-war listing
Listing post-war buildings has always been a point of contention, says Alan Powers, but in the case of Robin Hood Gardens there should be no argument
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Opinion
Off target
Urbed’s Nicholas Falk was almost arrested on a recent reconnaissance mission to the London Borough of Harrow, he revealed to an aghast audience at last week’s New New Town conference, after attempting to photograph Harrow’s awful bus station as an example of how not to design an urban environment.
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Opinion
Moscow's twin?
Chatting to residents of Robin Hood Gardens this week, Boots was intrigued to learn that the estate has proved a popular location for filming.
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News
Ward to lead urban regenerator
Michael Ward has been appointed chief executive of the British Urban Regeneration Association.
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Opinion
My kind of town
I would be interested to know, according to Simon Jenkins, where in the UK the planning system is run by architects and the construction industry as I would consider relocating to this area.
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OpinionSnap judgment
While BD is campaigning to save Robin Hood Gardens, Royal Academicians have turned their attention to Evans & Shalev’s Newport High School (pictured), which the local authority plans to demolish.
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OpinionHats on to Rem
So you’ve designed a string of internationally recognised masterpieces, and have a Pritzker Prize and an RIBA gold medal on your mantlepiece.
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