All Building Design articles in 6 May 2011
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Elta Fans - new brochure for Eltadrive Inverters range
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’.
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Pull Handle by Patrick Lynch for Ize
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
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.
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Chipperfield and MVRDV on New Holland Island shortlist
Winner for prestigious St Petersburg competition will be announced after public exhibition this summer
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James Soane of Project Orange on bedroom design for the Hoxton Hotel
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.
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Peter Bishop joins Allies & Morrison Urban Practitioners
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 ...
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Zogolovitch launches mews housing scheme in south-east London
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 ...
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3XN's skyline-changing Copenhagen hotel opens
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 ...
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Ingenhoven Architects to design Google's new California HQ
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 ...
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Winy Maas of MVRDV awarded Légion d'Honneur
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, ...
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Conran & Partners to design 1 Tower Bridge interiors
Conran & Partners has been appointed as interior designer at One Tower Bridge, the controversial development designed by Squire & Partners.
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Five new British embassies to be opened
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 ...
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Ferhan Azman on designing interiors for historic properties
Azman Architects’ director describes the challenges of creating modern kitchens and bathrooms for historic properties.
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Tony Meadows' 10-year wait ends as Borough Market viaduct installed
The most visible section of the Borough Viaduct has been lowered into place a decade after it was designed by Tony Meadows Associates
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Wilkinson Eyre wins competition to design Battle of Britain memorial
Practice picked from shortlist of 13
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Opinion
Object lesson
It is safe to assume that new museums are going to be few and far between in the coming decade.
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Opinion
Cash to spare
RMJM, as readers will know, has been losing a lot of its staff recently due in part to its failure to pay them.
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José Esteves de Matos on interior trends
De Matos Ryan director reflects on the mutual influence of luxury hotels and domestic interiors.
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Buck stops here
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.