All Building Design articles in 6 May 2011

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    Elta Fans - new brochure for Eltadrive Inverters range

    2011-05-31T15:57:00Z

    Elta Fans, the Kingswinford-based manufacturer and supplier of fans to the industrial and building services markets, has issued a brochure on its new range of ‘Eltadrive’ variable-speed drives or ‘inverters’.

  • Pull Handle by Patrick Lynch for Ize
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    Pull Handle by Patrick Lynch for Ize

    2011-05-31T15:24:00Z

    The new pull handle designed by Patrick Lynch is an attempt to reconcile the platonic sections ubiquitous in contemporary ironmongery and create a hybrid form. A square section segues into a circular section and the result is a subtly transforming form which gives a comfortable round grip but then hints ...

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    The Achilles Group - Common sense advice on implementation of the Bribery Act

    2011-05-31T13:30:00Z

    On 30th March 2011, The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) published its long-awaited guidance on the Bribery Act 2010 and confirmed that the Act will come into force on 1 July 2011.

  • David Chipperfield
    News

    Chipperfield and MVRDV on New Holland Island shortlist

    2011-05-12T10:32:00Z

    Winner for prestigious St Petersburg competition will be announced after public exhibition this summer

  • James Soane
    Features

    James Soane of Project Orange on bedroom design for the Hoxton Hotel

    2011-05-12T08:50:00Z

    Most hotel rooms are no less than 24sq m, but the Hoxton Hotel wanted to test the market to see how it would respond to a 16sq m room, which is about as small as it can get without being a cabin or capsule room.

  • New director Peter Bishop with some of his colleagues at Allies and Morrison Urban Practitioners: standing left to right Paul Appleton, Graham Morrison, Jo Bacon, Peter Bishop, Pauline Stockmans, Antony Rifkin, Helen Hayes, Chris Bearman, Robert Maxwell,
    News

    Peter Bishop joins Allies & Morrison Urban Practitioners

    2011-05-12T08:40:00Z

    Former London Development Agency design director Peter Bishop has been made a director of Allies & Morrison Urban Practitioners, the new firm formed this month by the long-time collaborators.Bishop has worked with both firms in the past.As head of planning at Hammersmith & Fulham Council and then Camden, Bishop worked ...

  • Essex Mews by MW Architects for Solidspace
    News

    Zogolovitch launches mews housing scheme in south-east London

    2011-05-12T08:33:00Z

    Developer Roger Zogolovitch has announced his latest project, a private mews of three detached, contemporary houses designed by local practice MW Architects in south-east London.It is the third project by Solidspace, the developer led by Zogolovitch and his son Gus.Its first, One Centaur Street, designed by dRMM, won the RIBA ...

  • 3XN's Bella Sky Hotel in Copenhagen
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    3XN's skyline-changing Copenhagen hotel opens

    2011-05-12T08:29:00Z

    Scandinavia’s largest hotel, designed by Danish practice 3XN, has opened in Copenhagen.The 814-room Bella Sky Hotel was designed to create a distinctive new profile on the city’s skyline.To maximise views from the hotel, its two 76.5m towers lean out 15 degrees in each direction - 11 degrees more than the ...

  • The existing Googleplex in Mountain View, California
    News

    Ingenhoven Architects to design Google's new California HQ

    2011-05-12T07:47:00Z

    Google has appointed German practice Ingenhoven Architects to design new sustainable offices next to its existing “Googleplex” in Mountain View, California.It is the first time the web giant has commissioned a building, having previously moved into existing reconditioned offices.Google, which has a rapidly expanding workforce, won outline planning from Mountain ...

  • Winy Maas, left, and Jean-François Blarel, French ambassador to the Netherlands, during the ceremony
    News

    Winy Maas of MVRDV awarded Légion d'Honneur

    2011-05-11T16:08:00Z

    Winy Maas, founding partner of Dutch practice MVRDV, has been awarded the highest French decoration for his work in France.He was presented with the Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur by the French ambassador to the Netherlands at the French residence in The Hague.As well as designing many projects in France, ...

  • Conran & Partners' plans for One Tower Bridge
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    Conran & Partners to design 1 Tower Bridge interiors

    2011-05-11T15:08:00Z

    Conran & Partners has been appointed as interior designer at One Tower Bridge, the controversial development designed by Squire & Partners.

  • Michael Wilford's Tblisi Embassy
    News

    Five new British embassies to be opened

    2011-05-11T10:53:00Z

    The UK is to open or re-open up to five new embassies around the world as part of a major reassessment of its diplomatic priorities.El Salvador, Kyrgyzstan, Madagascar, Southern Sudan, and even Somalia if the security situation improves, will all get British embassies, foreign secretary William Hague announced today.Staffing in ...

  • Ferhan Azman
    Features

    Ferhan Azman on designing interiors for historic properties

    2011-05-11T08:53:00Z

    Azman Architects’ director describes the challenges of creating modern kitchens and bathrooms for historic properties.

  • Borough Viaduct bridge over Borough High Street - by Tony Meadows Associates. Picture: Paul Freeman Photography
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    Tony Meadows' 10-year wait ends as Borough Market viaduct installed

    2011-05-11T07:32:00Z

    The most visible section of the Borough Viaduct has been lowered into place a decade after it was designed by Tony Meadows Associates

  • Wilkinson Eyre's early plans for the Battle of Britain beacon
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    Wilkinson Eyre wins competition to design Battle of Britain memorial

    2011-05-10T14:15:00Z

    Practice picked from shortlist of 13

  • Concrete Boot
    Opinion

    Object lesson

    2011-05-10T09:00:00Z

    It is safe to assume that new museums are going to be few and far between in the coming decade.

  • Concrete Boot
    Opinion

    Oil leak?

    2011-05-10T09:00:00Z

    Boots notes with interest that the oil tycoon backing the latest scheme to redesign the centre of Aberdeen has committed £400,000 for the competition.

  • Concrete Boot
    Opinion

    Cash to spare

    2011-05-10T09:00:00Z

    RMJM, as readers will know, has been losing a lot of its staff recently due in part to its failure to pay them.

  • Jose Esteves de Matos
    Features

    José Esteves de Matos on interior trends

    2011-05-10T00:00:00Z

    De Matos Ryan director reflects on the mutual influence of luxury hotels and domestic interiors.

  • Concrete Boot
    Opinion

    Buck stops here

    2011-05-09T11:59:00Z

    Lynch Architects should have no problem securing planning for its Victoria Street development, but another architect working in the same street may find it rather harder to please the neighbours.