All Building Design articles in 30 September 2011
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News
PRP and Aedas shortlised for heavenly Chongqing project
Site sits at meeting place of two major rivers
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Brady backs Venturi and Scott Brown for RIBA Gold Medal
RIBA president Angela Brady has seconded a nomination for Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown to be considered for the RIBA Gold Medal 2012.The pair were nominated by Richard Pain, founder of Richard Pain Architects, who said Frank Gehry, Terry Farrell and Alison Brooks also supported the move.Pain said: “It ...
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Norman Foster pays tribute to Steve Jobs, his 'friend and inspiration'
Working with Apple founder left Foster & Partners ‘wiser as architects’
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British brutalism added to list of world's threatened monuments
London’s Southbank Centre, Preston Bus Station and Birmingham Library have been added to a schedule of the world’s endangered cultural monuments.The World Monuments Fund (WMF) placed the “three outstanding modernist sites” on its 2012 World Monuments Watch list under the umbrella of “British brutalism”.The list features 67 sites in 41 ...
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Zaha Hadid on Stirling win: "I wasn't expecting it at all"
2011 Stirling Prize winner speaks out about shock win
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MAD finishes Mongolian museum
MAD Architects has completed its first museum building – in Ordos, Inner Mongolia.
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EH grant saves Yarmouth's historic theatre building
The grade I listed St George’s Theatre in the heart of the Norfolk town of Great Yarmouth is to undergo urgent repairs thanks to a grant of £250,000 from English Heritage.
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Cartwright Pickard receives permission for Sheffield student scheme
Cartwright Pickard Architects and Elmsdale Estates have been awarded planning permission for a student residence-led scheme in the city
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Will the NPPF improve design quality? Vote now
The government’s proposal to dramatically reform the planning system has dividied opinion, but will it affect design quality?
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Opinion
Wangari Maathai
Africa’s leading female environmentalist held lessons for us all, says John McAslan
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Five on Doha campus list
Penoyre & Prasad, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and Jestico & Whiles have all been shortlisted in a design competition for a new college campus in Doha, the capital of Qatar.
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Illinois university hires Fat director
Director of London practice Fat, Sam Jacob, has been appointed as a professor at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC).
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Nanoscience centre for Jestico & Whiles
Jestico & Whiles has been appointed to design the new Australian Institute of Nanoscience at the University of Sydney.
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Make's InfoCube debuts at Beijing Design Week
Make Architects has unveiled the InfoCube, a specially designed information centre that can be packed up and reassembled at various exhibits and exhibition venues around the city during this year’s Beijing Design Week (29 Sep-3 Oct).
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Zaha Hadid’s Evelyn Grace Academy wins 2011 Stirling Prize
Zaha Hadid’s Evelyn Grace Academy in London has won the 2011 Stirling Prize.
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Foster & Partners' Kowloon masterplan revised to include ideas from vanquished rivals
Design competition for individual buildings announced
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National Museums Liverpool launches legal action against AEW
National Museums Liverpool (NML) is taking renewed legal action against one of the architects involved in the design of the new £72 million Museum of Liverpool
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Analysis
The new planning rules: faster, simpler – but at what cost?
Many architects have broadly welcomed the governments’ proposed planning reforms, but some are concerned that the lack of detail could prove a minefield.
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Opinion
An architectural ceasefire?
The debates over working under Gaddafi are now done, but what about the future for the practices that are heading back to Libya?