All Building Design articles in 29 June 2007
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Building StudyOpal Court, Leicester by Stephen George and Partners
A student and key worker housing block near Leicester city centre.Richard L posted his support for this anonymous nomination. “It’s symptomatic of the kind of rubbish being built in leicester at the moment, especially around De Montfort. Leicester is quickly developing an idendikit city centre which will be indistinguishable from ...
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Review
Win tickets to New Designers
Win tickets to the first part of the New Designers show at the Business Design Centre in London's Islington
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Opinion"Our Singing Ringing Tree is architecture not bling"
Tonkin Liu director Anna Liu defends the decision to include her Singing Ringing Tree on the Stirling long-list
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OpinionThree horrors in Leicester
Leicester is the location for the first of your Carbuncle Cup nominations
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Review
The Mapping Project – Until September 8
The result of four years' work by Leeds Civic Architect John Thorp will be displayed for the first time at a new exhibition. The show will raise questions about how Leeds was and is planned and designed.
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News
Will Margaret Hodge make a good architecture minister?
Architects have bid a less than fond farewell to MP David Lammy, who has been replaced as architecture minister in the government reshuffle by Margaret Hodge.Lammy, who was widely seen to have displayed little interest in the built environment and was repeatedly criticised by figures including RIBA president Jack Pringle ...
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NewsSix on shortlist for Sheffield Festival Centre
The six designs shortlisted in the competition for a new festival centre in Sheffield include proposals from Carmody Groarke, HLM and Prue Chiles
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NewsCall for riders for Cycle to Cannes 2008
Registration for next year’s charity bike ride from London to Cannes for the Mipim Property Fair opens next week. Cycle master Peter Murray explains why you should sign up
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Review10% off books about Zaha Hadid
As a major exhibition of Zaha Hadid opens at the Design Museum, the RIBA Bookshop picks the best books about her work
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NewsPrescott was advised to refuse Vauxhall Tower
Former deputy prime minister John Prescott gave planning permission for Broadway Malyan’s 50-storey Vauxhall Tower even though his own advisers recommended he refuse it, saying it would damage a world heritage site. A newly released planning document sourced by former Tory environment secretary Kenneth Baker after a prolonged battle (News, ...
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NewsErick van Egeraat wins Tatarstan library competition - images
Erick van Egeraat has won an international competition to design a national library in Kazan, capital of the Republic of Tatarstan
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NewsNews Junkie: 30 June and 1 July
What may 'surprise on the upside' later this year? How might a 'new-new paradigm' protect the British property market from US recession? Who 'relaxed in embroidered slippers in his winged armchair'? Answers below...
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OpinionBlog: "Gordon Brown will be sustainable"
BD's sustainability blogger Phil Clark finds some hope for optimism at the RICS
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CompetitionsFor Sale - OZAMINOR 33FL Diazo Printer
Complete with Machine, stand, cover, 20 litres Ammonia Solution and operating & service instruction manual.
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Competitions
For sale - Domain name "landscape-architects.co.uk"
Offering landscape design services? Want thousands of extra hits to your web address?
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ReviewHélio Oiticica - Until September 23
Tate Modern's show features more than 150 works by the Brazilian artist including several key series from 1955 onwards, some of which have not been seen publicly for more than thirty years.
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FeaturesGreenwich University's summer show blog
Greenwich contributes to our summer show blog with student work inspired by Farnsworth House, World War II bunkers in Harwich and the Ledbury Estate
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FeaturesStudent shows blog
Over the next few weeks architecture schools around the country will be posting images of their student shows. See the first contribution from Greenwich University.
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ReviewZaha at the Design Museum - images
The Design Museum's blockbuster show on Zaha Hadid opens today. Zoë Blackler was at last night's private view to gauge the first reactions
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