All Building Design articles in 07 October 2011 – Page 2
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Features
Top 10 unbuilt towers: Friedrichstrasse tower, by Mies van der Rohe
As plans for the kilometre-high Kingdom Tower in Saudi Arabia are unveiled, London’s Shard is nearly sheathed, and the Walkie-Talkie, Cheesegrater and Pinnacle all begin to emerge from the ground, we look back at 10 projects that weren’t quite so fortunate in their bids to make it off the drawing ...
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News
Baca Architects reveals Dutch sail-and-ride rail plan
Baca Architects has submitted a £2.6 billion feasibility study for a 20km rail connection, that includes the world’s first sail and ride station, between Amsterdam and Almere in the Netherlands.
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Review
Giles Gilbert Scott: His Son’s View
The text of a 1962 lecture by Richard Gilbert Scott sheds light on a prolific family
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News
Libeskind's glass splinter pierces Dresden military museum
Practice’s five-storey extension opens this month
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News
Broadway Malyan unveils designs for media hub in Malaysia
Broadway Malyan has completed a masterplan for a media village in Medini, Malaysia, that will support the $130 million Pinewood Studio that is due to open in 2013.
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News
RMJM Washington University Engineering campus completes
RMJM has completed the second phase of the new engineering campus at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, with the opening of the $24m (£15.4m)Green Hall.
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News
Scott Brownrigg submits Cyprus port masterplan
Scott Brownrigg has submitted a planning application to redevelop Larnaca port and marina in Cyprus.
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Opinion
Why is this great architecture?
The judges have every right to award the Stirling to Hadid, but the opacity of their decision is harming the prize
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News
Stirling stars lambast system as Hadid triumphs
Past winners and judges call for greater transparency for UK profession’s greatest prize
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News
BD's Young Architect of the Year shortlist announced
The six shortlisted practices in the 2011 Autodesk Young Architect of the Year Awards were announced at a party held at the Architecture Foundation last night.
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Features
BIM decisions
Selecting the right bim package is key to getting the most out of 3D-modelling software
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Features
How to kit out your home office
Increasingly architects are considering setting up a business on their own for the first time.
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News
Fobert scheme scrapped as Tate St Ives goes out to tender
Jamie Fobert is being forced to reapply for the Tate St Ives extension he has been working on since 2005.The gallery has today put the project back out to tender and hopes to appoint an architect within six months.Fobert and the gallery stressed they had not fallen out but were ...
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Opinion
Tory green rhetoric is a lot of hot air
The Conservative Party conference saw ministers pushing conflicting views on sustainability
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News
RMJM to restore Gillespie Kidd & Coia church
Paul Stallan Studio at RMJM has been appointed to lead a restoration project at the Gillespie Kidd & Coia-designed St Bride’s Church in East Kilbride, Scotland.
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News
Cabe backs RIBA in procurement battle
Design Council Cabe has entered the fight to overhaul the procurement process, which it admits has been a “besetting problem” for architects.
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News
Quality pledge for Olympic Park
The chief of design at the Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC) has promised that design quality will be at the heart of plans to transform the Olympic Park following the 2012 games.
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News
Go-ahead for Southend Pier
White Arkitekter’s proposal for a cultural centre at the end of Southend Pier has secured planning permission.