All Building Design articles in 7 December 2007

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  • News

    Foster designs new coastal city in Oman - images

    2007-12-11T11:39:00Z

    Foster & Partners has revealed designs for its latest scheme, a masterplan for a new coastal city near Muscat in Oman reflecting traditional Omani architecture.Al Madina Al Zarqa, the Blue City, will be home to 200,000 people, and will be formed by a series of clustered communities featuring schools, a ...

  • Review

    New NewTown - February 20 to 21

    2007-12-10T19:53:00Z

    The Architecture Foundation presents New New Town, a day-long symposium, with an associated guest lecture.

  • [5] COOP HIMMELB(L)AU
    Review

    Himmelb(l)au: Beyond the Blue - until May 11

    2007-12-10T19:38:00Z

    Beyond the Blue aims to be the most comprehensive museum presentation of the work of Coop Himmelb(l)au who operate worldwide, running offices in Vienna and in Los Angeles, California

  • News

    MUMA beats Fretton to win Bath arts complex

    2007-12-10T18:31:00Z

    McInnes Usher McKnight Architects (MUMA) has triumphed in a head-to-head with Tony Fretton Architects for a Bath University’s new arts complex.MUMA and Fretton were the final contenders in the RIBA-backed competition after three other shortlisted schemes by Stanton Williams, Jamie Fobert and Penoyre & Prasad were rejected in September.The project ...

  • Opinion

    Fight over Gazprom tower symbolises modern Russian politics

    2007-12-10T16:46:00Z

    As the row escalates over RMJM’s controversial tower, Elaine Knutt visits St Petersburg and discovers Gazprom is caught up in wider political battles

  • News

    Nord wins Urban Splash competition for Stoke-on-Trent waterside

    2007-12-10T13:51:00Z

    Nord has defeated Studio Egret West and Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands transform a site in Stoke-on-Trent for Urban Splash. The project will see the 4.6 hectare City Waterside site - centred on the Caldon Canal - redeveloped to include “iconic new buildings" as well as the refurbishment of a pottery ...

  • Flacq
    News

    Urban Splash shortlists six for Birnbeck Pier

    2007-12-07T18:49:00Z

    AOC, Flacq Architects and Richards Partington Architects are among the practices shortlisted for the Urban Splash/RIBA competition for Birnbeck Island and Pier in Weston-super-Mare.Also in the running are Levitate Architecture & Design Studio, MOH Architects from Vienna and Pierre d'Avoine with White Young Green Planning & Design.Urban Splash announced the ...

  • Forty something: Could Fosters’ books be well used as metaphorical building bricks?
    Opinion

    Tall storey

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Re: what to do with the Foster 40 tomes

  • News

    Think Place wins Warsaw regen

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Think Place has triumphed in an international competition to masterplan a major Warsaw regeneration project

  • Opinion

    Piers pressure

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    As a retired conservation officer and history teacher, I disagree strongly with Piers Gough’s arrogant assertion that English Heritage should only deal with the past.

  • News

    New perspective on St Petersburg

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    RMJM’s new Gazprom tower design has a public observation deck served by a dedicated lift and irregular triple-glazed windows intended to respond to St Petersburg’s cold winters and described by Kettle as a “fur coat”.

  • Victoria Transport Interchange:  “constraint” on public realm
    News

    Westminster wavers on transport masterplan

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    The £2 billion Victoria Transport Interchange project by architects including KPF, Wilkinson Eyre and Allies & Morrison would “severely constrain” the area’s public realm, Westminster City Council has claimed

  • Opinion

    Just a minute

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Is “just 113 design reviews” (News November 30) enough for A&DS to “alter the status quo” in Scotland?

  • Opinion

    Invisible touch

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Cabe is still waiting to be bathed in the harsh spotlight of government scrutiny.

  • News

    RMJM locks horns with Unesco over St Petersburg tower

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    NEWS: Defiant RMJM tells Unesco to back off COMMENT: Gazprom battle symbolises Russian politics, argues Elaine Knutt from St Petersburg IN PICTURES: More images of the Gazprom tower

  • Opinion

    Going for Gold

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Comments from bdonline on the court order that a developer must rebuild an illegally demolished Erno Goldfinger house (News November 30)

  • News

    Mayor’s green house goes on show

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    The Building Centre-designed “Number 1 Lower Carbon Drive” — a public exhibition in Trafalgar Square designed to showcase the mayor of London’s Green Homes initiative — has been unveiled

  • News

    Sutherland Hussey’s museum gem

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Sutherland Hussey has won an international competition to build this £240 million museum for the Chinese city of Chengdu

  • News

    Gazprom woos international media over St Petersburg skyscraper

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    In the battle to win over the press, even the British consulate was drafted in

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    Who gains most from Tate gift?

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    The government has given the Tate extension a cash boost, but which side really benefits from this generosity?