All Building Design articles in 13 May 2011 – Page 2
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Box Group launches in Harrogate
A new multi-disciplinary architecture practice called Box Group has been launched in Harrogate, Yorkshire.The new group was created by incorporating new residential practice Box Haus into the existing firm Work Architects.Managing director Graham Place said: “Box Haus is the first step in broadening our successful offering that already has a ...
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Purcell Miller Tritton reveals plans for Wentworth Woodhouse restoration
Purcell Miller Tritton has drawn up plans for the restoration of Wentworth Woodhouse near Rotherham in South Yorkshire.
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Denovo holds eco-design contest for Liverpool kids
Liverpool practice Denovo Design has organised a design competition for primary school children to raise awareness of green issues
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Atelier Bow-Wow designs pavilion for global Guggenheim project
BMW and Guggenheim team up for exploration of contemporary cities
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Peel secures £25 million investment for Wirral international trade centre
Peel Group has secured a £25 million investment from a Chinese company in a proposed international trade centre on the Mersey, next door to its £4.5 billion Wirral Waters development
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Walters & Cohen - Towers Junior School, London
London-based practice Walters & Cohen has completed the refurbishment of the Towers Junior School in Havering
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Cultural Guide: May 16-22
British art’s enfant terrible, Tracey Emin returns to the limelight with the Hayward Gallery and we learn whether science fiction is any closer to becoming science fact with the AA School
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New river park planned for Thames
Gensler’s London River Park is set to go ahead after securing £60 million of funding
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The Petrified Music of Architecture: Sir Herbert Oakeley’s Collection of Cathedral Models
David Rosenberg lays aside his cynicism and delights in this exhibition of 1850s scale-model cathedrals
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Working abroad: DRDH Architects
The London firm is active in China, Norway, Belgium and the USA. But it doesn’t want to open any overseas offices, says Elizabeth Hopkirk
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Green light for Make's Wembley City scheme
Make has secured outline planning permission for a mixed-use development at Wembley City, north London, including up to 1,300 new homes.Located opposite Wembley Arena, the project for developer Quintain will see the creation of a public square located behind Hopkins Architects’ new civic centre for Brent Council, as well as ...
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Mitchell Taylor sets out to build viable alternative to Noddy houses
Three houses built for £200,000
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Ron Arad to create installation for Roundhouse
North London venue will feature ring of silicon rods
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UNStudio's New Amsterdam Plein & Pavilion opens in New York
UNStudio’s New Amsterdam Plein & Pavilion has opened in New York.The 465sq m white pavilion, designed with local practice Handel as associate architect, stands in Peter Minuit Plaza as a gateway to Battery Park in Lower Manhattan.The pavilion will contain an information centre and an organic food market, while the ...
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Munkenbeck & Partners Clerkenwell scheme tops out
Munkenbeck & Partners seven-storey mixed-use scheme designed in Clerkenwell, central London, has topped out.The 3,159 sq m project will include retail, office and residential space, with an experimental air mixing oversized ventilation system .Founding partner Alfred Munkenbeck said: “Gee Street is designed to be the first breathing skin building which ...
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Planners “appalled” at cash for permissions proposal
RTPI claims proposed amendment to Localism Bill would make money the overriding factor for councils
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Local fury over Amanda Levete’s Shoreditch tower plan
Residents groups claim to have collected 1,000 letters against ’alien’ proposal
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Aecom forms tall buildings group in bid to dominate the sector
Aecom has formed a company-wide tall buildings group to gather expertise in the sector from all parts of the global business.Its stated ambition is to establish Aecom as the acknowledged world leader in the high-rise field.The group will be led by Steve Watts, London-based director of Davis Langdon, the consultancy ...
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John Penrose gives first interview as architecture minister
Minister says he rejected handing portfolio over to business department