All Building Design articles in 07 October 2011 – Page 4
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News
Architecture Foundation launches beehive design competition
The Architecture Foundation has launched an international competition to design urban beehives.It is hoped that winning submissions will be mass-produced and installed at sites across the central London areas of Holborn, Bloomsbury and St Giles.The competition has been organised by the foundation on behalf of Inmidtown, the business improvement district ...
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Features
Sitting pretty
As OMA’s first permanent building in the UK opens its doors, we remember the practice’s commission to fit out a London office suite 20 years ago
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Competitions
For sale: Amanda Levete Chester Sofa
A lightly used original Chester sofa designed by Amanda Levete and produced by specialist manufacturers Established & Sons.The soft bean shape of the sofa is constructed from white fibreglass finished with a cushin insert upholstered in soft grey/beige microfibre.It has some signs of use, but nothing major.DimensionsHeight: 70cmWidth: 110cmDepth: 285cmPrice ...
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Tory conference: Cameron backs planning changes in closing address
Prime minister says businesses are “stuck in the mud of our planning system”
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Tory conference: Councils given extra time to prepare local plans
Planning reforms delayed to enable councils to fill gaps in local policy
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Building Study
Maggie’s Centre Gartnavel by OMA
OMA wilfully subverts expectations at its Glasgow Maggie’s Centre, which melts unassumingly into the background.
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Bletchley Park restoration secures £4.6m lottery funding
Award brings Kennedy O’Callaghan’s plans one step closer
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Bennetts to transform Hornsey Town Hall into drama school
Bennetts Associates has prepared plans to convert grade II* listed Hornsey Town Hall into a drama school.The building in Crouch End, north London would have a new three-storey wing of studios added to it and be used by the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.The existing assembly hall would become the ...
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Tory Conference: Boris Johnson enters 'shameful shoebox' debate
London mayor addresses housing space standards in conference speech
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Tory Conference: Osborne 'incredibly misguided' says UK Green Building Council
Chancellor claims green regulations hold back British business
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Stuart Lipton to head Tottenham post-riot regeneration taskforce
The founder of developer Chelsfield, Stuart Lipton, is to head a taskforce overseeing the regeneration of Tottenham following the August riots.Lipton, whose firm is working with David Chipperfield to overhaul Elizabeth House at Waterloo, will work alongside Julian Metcalfe, the founder of Pret A Manger who will head a separate ...
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Tory Conference: Ministers signal planning changes
Housing and planning ministers hint at revised planning proposals
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Features
Architects' desks: Steven Holl, principal at Steven Holl Architects
BD takes a look at the workspaces of architects
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Technical
Rothschild Foundation/Windmill Hill by Stephen Marshall Architects
The new charity office and archive buildings use oak extensively for doors, window shutters, screens and vertical cladding.
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News
Coop Himmelb(l)au's Busan Cinema Centre opens in Korea
The Cinema Centre in Busan, South Korea, designed by Wolf D. Prix at Coop Himmelb(l)au, has opened.
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HGP unveils designs for Southampton's tallest building
Carphone Warehouse chairman behind 28-storey £74 million Admiral’s Quay scheme
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Planning applications rise 7.6% year on year
Barbour ABI data show increase of 4,097 applications
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Review
A tale of two wits
Koolhaas and Jencks agreed to disagree in their public debate on postmodernism
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Tory Conference: Funding pledge for Knight's Mersey Gateway
Government gives go-ahead for £600 million bridge between Runcorn and Widnes