All Building Design articles in 11 June 2010
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Competitions
Holiday Let: Georgian Terraced Cottage in Central Dartmouth, South Devon
A perfect place to escape to, at any time of the year. Especially suitable for those interested in sailing, walking, golf, and good food!
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News
Haworth Tompkins' National Theatre revamp in for planning
Haworth Tompkins’ plans for the £70 million revamp of London’s National Theatre have been submitted for planning to Lambeth Council.
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News
RIBA launches competition to create watery gem
The RIBA has announced the launch of an international competition to design a new drinking fountain which will be installed throughout London’s eight Royal Parks.
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Opinion
Zero-carbon report could backfire
To most of us the financial crisis has been a reality check, not pleasant but necessary. But for environmentalists the penny is taking longer to drop .This is because they believe their cause is more important than anything else.
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News
Retrofitting is best way to cut carbon emissions, says report
The best way to bring down carbon emissions from the built environment is to embark on a national programme of retrofitting, a major new report argues.
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News
Architects worse hit by recession, FT reports
Architects are still bearing the brunt of the job losses caused by the recession, the Financial Times reported today.
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News
Hats off to the architect
A pop-up exhibition of hats created by architects, artists and designers as part of the London Festival of Architecture is set to open tomorrow.
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News
Boris seeks to scrap London Development Agency
The mayor of London has made an audacious bid to extend his powers by setting out proposals to scrap the London Development Agency and take over the functions of a range of other bodies.
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News
Lee Fitzgerald Architects refurbish bookshop at Oxford College
Lee Fitzgerald Architects has won planning permission to refurbish and adapt Gillespie Kidd & Coia’s grade II listed bookshop at Oxford University’s Wadham College.
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News
Capita Symonds designs Roman Maryport visitor centre
Capita Symonds has won the contract to design and build a £6 million visitors’ centre at a Roman fort at Maryport in Cumbria.
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News
Tributes paid to Bill Mitchell, former architecture dean at MIT
Leading American architect Steven Holl has led tributes to Bill Mitchell, former dean of the MIT School of Architecture and BD columnist, who has died of cancer.
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News
The Wilberforce Health Centre
HLM’s £16 million health and well-being centre in Hull has started on site.
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News
Boris calls for new financing model to enable Battersea tube extension
London mayor Boris Johnson has written to chancellor George Osborne urging him to introduce a novel form of financing seen as crucial to the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station.
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Multimedia
Audio slideshow: 1:1 Architects Build Small Spaces
1:1 Architects Build Small Spaces, a group of seven small structures built in various locations around the V&A, opens today. Exhibition curator, Abraham Thomas, explains the concepts and inspirations behind the installations.
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News
Qatari Diar deleted emails that harmed its barracks case, court told
A Qatari Diar executive deliberately destroyed emails that would have damaged the developer’s case against the Candy brothers, including several mentioning Prince Charles, the High Court was told today.
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News
Hanif Kara joins Architecture Foundation board
The engineer Hanif Kara has been appointed to the board of trustees of the Architecture Foundation.
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News
Bill Dunster and Donald Insall honoured by the Queen
Conservation architect Donald Insall and green pioneer, Bill Dunster, are among those recognised in the Queen’s birthday honours.
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Review
Cultural week: June 14-20
It’s a busy week for culture vultures as the London Festival of Architecture opens alongside the V&A’s architects build small spaces. If you’re architectured up to the eyeballs, then you can find relief at the Barbican’s mini Terry Gilliam film season.
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News
Studio Weave create 'dance podium' for Glastonbury
Studio Weave has been commissioned to create an installation for Glastonbury that will go on to tour music festivals around the country this summer.
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News
Piercy Conner Architects’ Restello
An innovative residential block, the winner of Living Steel’s 2006 international architecture competition, has started on site in India.