All Building Design articles in 09 April 2009
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NewsTories propose massive green retrofitting programme
The Conservatives have outlined plans to give every home in Britain a grant of up to £6,500 to pay for green retrofitting improvements, which could provide extra work for architects.
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NewsPeter Zumthor’s Devon holiday house will be his first UK project
This year’s Pritzker prize winner Peter Zumthor is designing his first project in the UK, a residential building in Devon which will be part of the forthcoming Living Architecture project.
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NewsOuter London Summit – 11th June 2009
A one-day conference exploring the potential of London's outer boroughs by identifying key development and regeneration opportunities.
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NewsNightingale wins second hospital
Nightingale Associates has won the contract to design a £150 million children’s hospital in Edinburgh. It beat BDP, Anshen & Allen, Hypostyle Architects and Keppie.
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NewsGo-ahead for controversial Bristol maths department
Bristol University has won planning permission for a controversial £80 million maths and biological sciences development by Sheppard Robson, despite opposition from local groups and English Heritage.
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NewsMake's Nine Elms towers put on hold by recession
Make’s plans for a 30-storey complex of curving towers close to London’s Battersea Power Station have stalled just weeks after they were first unveiled.
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NewsGreen light for Studio Egret West's Clapham One scheme
Studio Egret West announced a brace of deals this week after schemes in London and Kent received the all clear from council planners.
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NewsCabe calls for simplification of Oxfordshire waste facility design
Cabe has called on Kent-based Architecture & Planning Solutions to rethink its design approach to a new waste and recycling facility in Oxfordshire.
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NewsAdjaye to design Washington's African American History museum
Britain’s David Adjaye has been named as part of the competition-winning team selected to design the prestigious National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC.
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NewsArad's Médiacité on site
Ron Arad Associates has released new images of its Médiacité shopping centre project in Liège, Belgium.
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NewsArchitecture minister Follett lists two 20th Century buildings
Barbara Follett lists school and railway station at Grade II.
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ReviewBD’s guide to your cultural week: April 14 to April 19
This week, more Le Corbusier on film, and a new building project from Bristol’s Arnolfini.
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NewsPeter Zumthor wins Pritzker Prize
Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has won the 2009 Pritzker Prize, architecture's most prestigious award.
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NewsWork to part-pedestrianise Oxford Circus begins (video)
Work on an experimental scheme to semi-pedestrianise Oxford Circus, one of central London’s busiest junctions, begins this week.
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NewsSustainability Now virtual event details revealed
New details and information on the upcoming Sustainability Now virtual event, which takes place next month on 13 and 14 May.
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ReviewReview: The Architects Who Made London - The Smithsons
Max Risselda’s lecture on Alison and Peter Smithson was competent and well focused, but offered few new insights.
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NewsPlan for sports stadium on Maze Prison site dropped
A controversial proposal for a multi-sport stadium on the site of Belfast’s Maze Prison has been scrapped.
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CompetitionsHoliday Let: Glenisla, Angus, Scottish Highlands
Set in its own grounds amid beautiful Highland scenery, our well appointed cottage, which sleeps 4, is available for holiday let from April through October.
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Economic gloom in RIBA trend survey
The latest figures from the RIBA Future Trends Survey show no sign of economic gloom lifting in the profession.
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NewsYRM staff to run London marathon
Staff from YRM Architects’ King’s Cross office are to compete in the Flora London Marathon this month to raise money for the practice’s charity partner, Alone in London.