All Building Design articles in 30 May 2008
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Review
Pit Kroke: Sculptural Architecture - Architectonic Sculpture – until June 29
Pit Kroke’s small-scale sculptures are functionless architectural games – objects in their own right rather than scale models of buildings; instead they constitute an idealized image of a sculptural architecture, forming imaginary connections between the two media.
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News
Competition launched to design public square for King's Cross station
Camden Council and Network Rail have launched an RIBA competition to design a new public square at King’s Cross in central London.
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News
Dynamic Architecture creates rotating tower for Dubai
Italian-Israeli architect David Fisher has unveiled plans for the latest eye-popping skyscraper in Dubai – a 68-storey, rotating tower.
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News
Three shortlisted for RIBA's Lubetkin Prize
Three architects have been shortlisted for RIBA’s Lubetkin prize for the most outstanding work of architecture outside the UK and the European Union by an RIBA member.
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News
London mayor set to ditch Rogers as adviser
London mayor Boris Johnson has indicated that Labour peer Richard Rogers is unlikely to continue as the city’s adviser on architecture and urbanism under his administration.Speaking at City Hall on Wednesday, Johnson said: “I’ll certainly be maintaining the role of an adviser on architecture or urbanism, but you’ll have to ...
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Architects get ready to wobble
Architects Will Alsop, Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners and Foster & Partners lead the shortlist for the 2008 Architectural Jelly Design Competition – part of the 2008 London Festival of Architecture.
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Starck-designed second homes win planning permission
Planning permission has been granted for the expansion of a prestigious second-home development by yoo, Philippe Starck’s housing venture with John Hitchcox, co-founder of Manhattan Loft Corporation.
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Competitions
For sale - Architects' office London SW17
I have retired after 30 years of practice in Wandsworth and my office is for sale.
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Review
The House That Herman Built: Jackie Sumell and Herman Wallace - until July 5
What kind of house does a man who has lived in a 6' x 9' prison cell for over 35 years dream of? Not a question many of us could answer; but one that became the starting point for an extraordinary collaborative project between American artist and activist, Jackie Sumell ...
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Competitions
For sale - Canon W7250 A1 Large Format Plotter/Printer
This plotter was purchased as an ex-demo machine from a dealer and has had very little use since. It is a1200 x 600dpi high quality printer with fast print speeds on both black and white and colour.
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Review
Loris Gréaud:Cellar Door (Once is Always Twice)- until June 22
French artist Loris Gréaud’s first UK solo exhibition consists of three almost identical rooms, each drawing on his own interweaving interests in art, architecture and music.
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Review
Royal Academy of Arts: Summer Exhibition 2008 – until August 17
Now in its 240th year, the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition 2008, the world’s largest open-submission contemporary art exhibition; continues the tradition of displaying a wide range of recent work by both established and emerging artists in all forms of media including: painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture and architecture.
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Review
Raw: New Brazilian Architecture- until July 18
Curated by the London-based Brazilian architect Ricardo de Ostos and part of the London Festival of Architecture; Raw focuses on the emerging talents in Brazilian architecture- displaying recent projects shown alongside works by more established architects.
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Review
Roger Hilton: until September 22
This will be the only showing of this major exhibition of the oil paintings of Roger Hilton (1911-1975); widely thought to be one of the best and most adventurous painters of his generation.
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News
Le Corbusier's Ronchamp chapel stirs passions online
An online war is pitting some of the biggest names in world architecture against each other in a bid to influence the French Minister of Culture over the future of Le Corbusier’s world famous Ronchamp chapel.
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News
EIB takes quantum leap
The European Union’s international financing arm, The European Investment Bank, will this week unveil its new 10-storey headquarters in Kirchberg, Luxembourg, designed by German architect Ingenhoven.
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News
Living Steel shortlist announced
British architects make up three of the 12 teams shortlisted for Living Steel’s third International Architecture Competition for Sustainable Housing.
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News
Cabe pylon unveiled in Birmingham
Cabe’s first ever commission – a 29m-high, nickel-plated pylon – has been unveiled in Birmingham.
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Blogs
News Junkie — 30 and 31 May
CABE accuses architects of techno greenwash, interspecies pod living and Portsmouth’s Bimbo tower.
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Competitions
Holiday let - traditional French holiday home in the Dordogne
Set in a small picturesque village on the borders of the Charente and the Dordogne