All Building Design articles in 30 November 2007
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Features20 finalists for Zumtobel photosnap contest revealed
Twenty photographs have been shortlisted in Zumtobel's annual competition. View the shortlisted images and vote for your favourite.
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NewsTate extension nets 50m
The government has announced a £50 million contribution to Herzog & de Meuron’s extension at Tate Modern, which it claimed will boost Britain’s cultural offering in the run-up to the Olympics. Speaking at Tate Modern on Wednesday morning, culture secretary James Purnell said the capital funds — part of the ...
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NewsSutherland Hussey wins Chinese Museum in international competition - images
Sutherland Hussey has won an international competition to design the £240m Chengdu City Museum.
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NewsMurray Dunlop's massive tower block scheme for River Clyde approved - images
A massive mixed use development of six buildings - including four 22-storey towers - was approved today by Glasgow City Council in a move that the architect calls "fundamental" to the city’s regeneration.The £180m scheme by Gordon Murray and Alan Dunlop Architects, which contains 853 apartments, will also feature retail ...
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ReviewUtrecht Manifest: 2nd Biennale for Social Design - until 11 February
The second edition of this international biennale, investigates and sheds light on recent developments in the field of design from a social perspective. Utrecht Manifest is held every two years and will be showing until the 11th of February 2008.
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NewsO'Donnell & Tuomey's Photographers Gallery wins planning - images
Celebrated Dublin architect O’Donnell & Tuomey has received planning permission for its new £16 million building for the Photographers Gallery in London.The six storey building, to be located in the heart of Soho off Oxford Street, will provide exhibition space, an online resource centre, education areas, a bookshop and a ...
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Competitions
For sale - Norfolk flint cottage
Norfolk flint cottage, 1820s; recently refurbished in village near Swaffham: 3 beds, good size bathroom and shower with large kitchen and utility and large garden.
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ReviewIconic Site - until December 14
This new Manchester installation, commissioned by Manchester’s Cube gallery and devised by architect-artist collaboration Sans façon (Tristan Surtees and Charles Blanc) chooses to explore one of the most over-used adjectives for describing buildings today.
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ReviewStuart Haygarth - until February 24
The Lighthouse will be hosting an exhibition of Stuart Haygarth’s design work, much of which is characterized by the inventive reuse and appropriation of materials; plastic wine glasses, party poppers and flea market glassware being but a notable few.
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ReviewThe Power of Place: George Ferguson lecture - January 15
George Ferguson, Architect and Past President of RIBA, has devoted much of his architectural career to fighting for good urbanism.
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NewsHodder's Clissold Leisure Centre reopens - images
The first images of the completed Clissold Leisure Centre, designed by Stephen Hodder Associates, have been revealed.The long-awaited building, in Hackney, east London, is due to reopen on December 15, after being shut for four years to rectify a series of major problems client Hackney Council blames on design errors.The ...
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FeaturesHayes Davidson's Red Room party doesn't disappoint
Hayes Davidson kicked off the Christmas party season with its annual fancy dress extravaganza. See pictures from the night in the first posting in our Christmas party blog, and send your own to zblackler@cmpi.biz
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BlogsNews Junkie: 01 and 02 December
This week: a Scottish fisherman gets in Trump's way, a new phone measures your carbon smugness, and a hapless Clive Aslet Googles a house of panties.
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ReviewTwisted view
If gullible clients are being ripped off, this disappointing book fails to explain why, says Catherine Croft
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Opinion
Still on track
Piers Gough has raised a long-standing question about the roles of English Heritage and Cabe (News November 16).
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Opinion
Number puzzle
When I resigned in May 2007 as English Heritage’s chief conseration architect and head of profession, I was able to identify 28 architects working for EH in various capacities of a total of 1,937 full-time equivalent employees (EH annual report 2006/07).
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OpinionScots missed
Just to put the record right, Deyan Sudjic, Ricky Burdett and myself, the only architects on the jury for the BBC Scotland HQ (BD Magazine, Offices, November), soon came to the conclusion that the proposal by David Chipperfield was the best.
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News
President's medallists
Students from the Bartlett School of Architecture, the Architectural Association and the University of Westminster have scooped this year’s RIBA President’s Medals student awards.