All Building Design articles in 09 January 2009 – Page 3
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OpinionFuture transport
Is it a toy? Is it the Olympic Village transport system? No, it’s the B-Bus, or Boris Bus, Future Systems’ proposed new London routemaster, which was beaten by Fosters’ entry in the mayor’s competition for a design to replace Ken Livingstone’s bendy buses.
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Opinion
The F factor
When not handling Multiplex’s immense claim over Wembley Stadium, top City law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is focusing on other ways to combat the recession.
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NewsUK firms face supporting role only on US embassy
British firms are hoping to win work as executive architects on the proposed £275 million US embassy at Battersea, south-west London, after the country’s State Department announced an all-American shortlist for the competition
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Sector sees drop-off in projects
The UK Construction Purchasing Survey for December has shown a record decline in new work, with a sharp fall in activity across the construction industry.
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Competitions
Students called to design sustainable community
Technology giant Cisco has launched a competition for architecture graduates and undergraduates to design the “connected community of the future”
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NewsBSF threatened by downturn
The government’s multi-billion pound Building Schools for the Future programme could become the next victim of the downturn, a committee of MPs has warned
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Building StudyDow Jones brings crypt to life in Spitalfields’ Hawksmoor church
Dow Jones has unveiled its competition-winning design for the crypt of the Nicholas Hawksmoor-designed Christ Church in east London’s Spitalfields
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OpinionGive Bush’s era the order of the boot
As the boom bursts, how best to commemorate the president who let this happen?
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Opinion
Best laid plans...
Carolyn Steel’s Opinion piece (5 December) elucidated much of why local communities are often at odds with the planning process and feel marginalised by so-called regeneration schemes.
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NewsBenetton holds competition for Tehran buildings
Italian fashion label Benetton has launched an international architecture competition for two multi-storey retail and office buildings in Iran’s capital, Tehran.
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Opinion
Mote and beam
Michael Rasmussen (Letters December 19) uses such words as “disturbed”, “ill timed and insensitive”, “great offence”, “offensive”, “wave of resignations”, “cutting the common bond”. What dreadful act might justify such language?
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NewsLight Bar protection hits Foster’s scheme
Foster & Partners’ £500 million Bishop’s Place scheme in London’s Shoreditch has suffered a blow after Hackney Council officials recommended the local conservation area be extended to include the popular Light Bar, which stands in the way of the development
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NewsODA reveals basketball arena
The Olympic Delivery Authority has submitted Wilkinson Eyre’s 2012 basketball stadium for planning permission
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NewsArchitecture schools excel in rankings
Assessment shows major improvement in schools’ research performance
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OpinionThe audacity of open architecture
Under the Bush presidency, the US has been erecting bunker-like embassy designs worldwide. With the inauguration of Obama, will the new US embassy in south London take a different tack?
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InspirationsSimon Henley’s inspiration: James Stirling’s Andrew Melville Hall
Simon Henley of Buschow Henley Architects revisits James Stirling’s Andrew Melville Hall at the University of St Andrews
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News
Farnborough airship shed listed
Architecture minister Barbara Follett has listed a airship shed in Farnborough, Hampshire, at grade II
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Building StudyThe sublime and the aedicule
Architect David Kohn has teamed up with cult restauranteurs Pablo Flack and David Waddington to create a temporary dining space for the Royal Academy, deploying a host of artists and designers to startling effect.
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NewsGraceful design for Coventry’s academy
Swanke Hayden Connell Architects has unveiled designs for Grace Academy, a mixed secondary school and sixth form in Coventry in the West Midlands
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