All Building Design articles in 29 January 2010
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ReviewReview:Shaping London: the patterns and forms that make the metropolis, by Terry Farrell. Wiley, 288 pp, £39.99
This ambitious portrait of London has the best aspirations, but does not seem to know if it is trying to be a chatty historical run-through of some of the city’s highlights, or to provide a more focused, diagrammatic approach to understanding the capital.
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ReviewReview: Keith Williams: Architecture of the Specific. Images publishing, 224pp, £45,
The work of Keith Williams has been subtle. Instead of meteoric competition wins, the rise of the practice has been a gradual process of successful cultural and civic work across the UK. Indeed, its size and scale is somewhat modest and humble in a culture obsessed with iconography in architecture. ...
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NewsFOA's Birmingham New Street station wins approval
Foreign Office Architects and Atkins have revealed new images today of the £600 million transformation of Birmingham’s New Street station after the project won approval from the council’s planning committee.
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NewsHackney to demolish Foundry to make way for Squire & Partners' Art'otel
The Foundry, a popular arts centre and bar in Shoreditch, east London, is to be demolished after Hackney Council granted planning permission last night to a controversial hotel building designed by Squire & Partners.
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NewsCabe backs Paddington scheme
Cabe’s Crossrail design review panel has lent its support to Weston Williamson’s designs for the Paddington Integrated Project.
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Competitions
Students urged to design for death
Architects for Health has launched its third annual student design awards with a brief titled Designing for Death: Hell, Purgatory and Paradise.
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Architects named for Essex BSF
Nicholas Hare Architects, Haverstock Associates and Bryant Harvey Partnership are all part of the Skanska-led consortium that has been named preferred bidder for Essex’s BSF programme.
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NewsCall for upgrade to Rhodes listing
The Victorian Society has written to English Heritage urging the body to upgrade the listing of Basil Champneys’ 1908 Rhodes Building on Oxford High Street.
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News‘Green building boosts jobs’
The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment this week claimed green construction methods, using natural materials and local labour, will boost struggling local economies.
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Harwell medical complex finished
A new science research complex in Oxfordshire designed by Nightingale Associates has been handed over to the Medical Research Council.
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Cook to be new Atkins chairman
Chartered engineer Allan Cook has taken over as chairman of design consultant Atkins.
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NewsMadonna's Malawi school on-site
New images of a planned school in Africa being funded by Madonna have been unveiled.
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NewsPhoto book focuses on redundant architects
Ex Heatherwick employee's project highlights positive side of job losses
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NewsAnger over refusal to list Preston bus station
The Twentieth Century Society has questioned the government’s fitness to preside over heritage protection following culture secretary Ben Bradshaw’s decision not to list Preston Bus Garage.
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NewsFoster Wilson’s Cheltenham Parabola starts its rise
Work has completed on Foster Wilson Architects’ £3 million Parabola Arts Centre in Cheltenham.
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NewsHawkins Brown's Stoke Newington town hall opens
Hawkins Brown’s £6.4 million restoration of Stoke Newington’s 1930s grade II-listed town hall opened to the public this week.
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NewsSou Fujimoto and Rintala Eggertsson join V&A exhibition list
Details and first images of the architectural installations for the V&A's upcoming exhibition have been revealed.
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Savoy Hotel refurbishment nears completion
The £100 million project to restore London’s Savoy Hotel will be completed this summer, more than a year behind schedule, it has been announced.
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NewsMuf to curate Venice Biennale’s British Pavilion
London-based practice Muf has been confirmed as curator of the British Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale.
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Historic cinemas at risk claim campaigners
Dozens of Britain’s 1930s cinemas face demolition as investors eye them up as ripe for development, campaigners fear.