Rafael Vinoly
Building Design
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Walkie-Talkie milestone as steel frame completes
20 December 2012
Viñoly scheme includes sky garden on top three floors
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Work at Battersea set to go ahead
5 September 2012
Ian Simpson and dRMM to work on first phase
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Ian Simpson Architects 'ready to go' on Battersea
13 June 2012
Simpson’s first phase plans back in the frame under Malaysian buyers
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Malaysians chosen as preferred bidder for Battersea
7 June 2012
Team wants to take forward Rafael Vinoly’s masterplan
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Chelsea FC declare their hand: We bid for Battersea Power Station
4 May 2012
News revives chances of landmark getting a Rafael Vinoly revamp
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Battersea Power Station chimneys need not be demolished, says leading engineer
20 April 2012
Cracks look “alarming”, but they can be saved
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Battersea Power Station put up for sale
24 February 2012
Administrator hopes to raise up to £500 million for creditors
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Land Secs happy with Walkie Talkie progress
25 January 2012
Viñoly building on course for April 2014 completion
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MP rubbishes Viñoly's Battersea 'saviour' role
21 December 2011
Bob Russell blasts architect’s Colchester arts building
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Viñoly asked to help on Chelsea's Battersea bid
20 December 2011
Architect to work with KPF on stadium plan
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Viñoly's Battersea scheme in doubt as owner's plans collapse
1 December 2011
Real Estate Opportunities owes £325 million to Bank of Scotland
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Rafael Viñoly: the outsider
23 September 2011
As the public at last begins to look round Firstsite, we remember when its architect won his first big commission in 1989
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Colchester slips up on Viñoly’s golden banana
22 September 2011
There are many reasons not to like Rafael Viñoly’s Colchester Firstsite, which finally opens this week, four years late and, at £28 million, costing almost twice its original budget.
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Rafael Viñoly football academy in for planning
19 September 2011
Manchester City seeks approval for 32ha project
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Former RMJM director joins Pringle Brandon Drew
6 September 2011
The former operations director of RMJM, Miriam White, has joined Pringle Brandon Drew as director.
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Vinoly on board for Park Avenue tower
5 September 2011
Property investor CIM Group and developer Harry Macklowe have confirmed that Rafael Viñoly has been hired to draw up plans for a 70-storey tower in New York.
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Vinoly's Oxford job starts work
19 August 2011
A new academic building on the site of the former Radcliffe Infirmary for Oxford University by Rafael Vinoly Architects has broken ground.
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Opening date set for Viñoly's 'Golden Banana'
21 July 2011
Arts centre is three years late and £8.5 million over-budget
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Manchester City FC consults on Viñoly's training facility plans
19 July 2011
Manchester City Football Club has begun public consultation on Rafael Viñoly’s plans for the redevelopment of a 32ha brownfield site in Openshaw West as a training facility.
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City agrees air-rights deal to secure future of Viñoly's Walkie Talkie
11 May 2011
Extraordinary planning powers will be used to protect Rafael Viñoly’s Walkie Talkie tower from possible objections
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Viñoly’s Walkie-Talkie in right-of-light planning immunity bid
9 May 2011
City of London may use extraordinary planning powers to secure 37-storey tower
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Public park plans unveiled for Battersea
15 March 2011
Developer beefs up its management team
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Star architects appeal to Boris to save Design for London
22 February 2011
London’s threatened design advisory body backed by Herzog, Gehry, Libeskind, Piano and Hadid
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Battersea Power Station architects appointed
11 February 2011
Ian Simpson and DRMM are first to be selected as Viñoly’s Battersea masterplan wins final approval.
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Boris backs Vinoly's Battersea Power station redevelopment
23 December 2010
New York-based architect’s £5.5 billion scheme approved by London mayor following backing of Wandsworth Council
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Battersea developer launches competition to design first phase of Viñoly's masterplan
12 November 2010
Architects will have the chance to design the first major part of the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station under an international design competition.
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Council approves Viñoly's Battersea Power Station plans
12 November 2010
Wandsworth Council has given the go-ahead for the £5.5 billion Rafael Viñoly-designed redevelopment of Battersea Power Station in south London.
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Vinoly's Battersea Power Station plans tipped for approval
8 November 2010
£5.5 billion redevelopment of Battersea Power Station recommended for planning by council officers
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MP hits out at Viñoly's 'Golden Banana'
20 October 2010
The MP for Colchester, Bob Russell, has launched a scathing attack on Rafael Viñoly and his beleaguered visual arts centre – which he dubbed “the most hated building in the city”.
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Construction to start immediately on Viñoly's Walkie-Talkie
19 October 2010
Land Securities has finalised its joint venture agreement with developer Canary Wharf Group to build Rafael Viñoly’s Walkie-Talkie tower.
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Battersea developer defers interest on loan repayments
11 October 2010
The firm bankrolling Rafael Viñoly’s planned £5.5 billion redevelopment of Battersea power station in south London has said it has reached agreements with its banks to defer interest repayments on its loans to next May.
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John Drew teams up with Pringle Brandon
11 October 2010
John Drew, a former director at Rafael Viñoly Architects and partner at Foster & Partners, has joined forces with Pringle Brandon to form new practice Pringle Brandon Drew.
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New York gives go-ahead to Viñoly housing
2 August 2010
Planners in New York have approved designs by Rafael Viñoly to build affordable housing.
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Viñoly to design Kennedy building
29 July 2010
Rafael Viñoly has been appointed to design a new building at Boston’s University of Massachusetts.
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Rafael Viñoly: Manchester City’s hot new signing
25 June 2010
Rafael Viñoly speaks to BD about the World Cup, his plans for the world’s richest football club, and whether at Battersea Power Station he can end 30 years of hurt.
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Viñoly and Bennetts given green light for Oxford campus
2 June 2010
Major new academic buildings by Rafael Viñoly, Bennetts Associates and Wilkinson Eyre for Oxford University have been granted planning permission.
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Viñoly to design £1bn scheme for Manchester City
17 May 2010
Rafael Viñoly is set to design a £1 billion sports and leisure complex for the richest football club in the world – Manchester City.
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Viñoly cuts staff at London office
23 April 2010
Rafael Viñoly’s British presence has suffered a blow after the office confirmed it was cutting around a quarter of its staff
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£61m Viñoly Leicester theatre ‘not good value for money’
7 October 2009
Rafael Viñoly’s first completed project in the UK, the Curve theatre in Leicester, has been slammed by the Audit Commission for failing to provide good value for money.
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Up to 10 firms to work on Viñoly’s Battersea plan
4 September 2009
Developer denies conflict with architect as a modified masterplan is set to go for planning
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Vinoly's Battersea eco-tower scrapped
26 February 2009
Back to the drawing board for power station developer after mayor signals his opposition
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Cabe urges Oxford University to ditch Vinoly's masterplan for Radcliffe Infirmary scheme
24 November 2008
Cabe has laid into a new framework document for a site at Oxford University developed from a previous masterplan by Rafael Viñoly Architects.
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Viñoly inside out
31 October 2008
Rafael Viñoly’s first completed project in the UK, Leicester’s £61 million Curve theatre, opened to visitors this week.
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Viñoly reveals designs for terminal at Carrasco Airport , Uruguay
7 February 2008
Architect Rafael Viñoly has designed a terminal for Carrasco International Airport in his home country of Uruguay.
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Viñoly and Piano at BCO meeting
20 April 2007
Rafael Viñoly and Renzo Piano are to head a panel of architects discussing trends in office design at the British Council for Offices’ annual conference in New York.
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Video flythrough: Rafael Vinoly's "walkie-talkie"
9 March 2007
The inquiry into Rafael Vinoly’s “walkie-talkie” skyscraper planned for Fenchurch Street in the City of London opened on Tuesday 6 March. Watch the architect’s flythrough of the proposed building.
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Viñoly tower is in fine tradition
02 March 2007
On March 6, Cabe and English Heritage will appear on opposite sides at the public inquiry into Rafael Viñoly’s tower at 20 Fenchurch Street. The issue here is about how great cities change to meet new challenges. It is about the extent to which they can break with tradition when they need to, without compromising what makes them special.
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John Drew leaves Foster for Viñoly
30 September 2005
Senior Foster & Partners architect John Drew is leaving the practice to join of Rafael Viñoly Architects.
