All Building Design articles in 14 October 2011
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NewsBDP to shed up to 100 staff
BDP has announced plans to make up to 100 staff redundant after delays to one of the practice’s major contracts.
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OpinionStirling a turn-off
Meanwhile the board might have to rethink its deal with the BBC’s Culture Show after dismal viewing figures for last week’s Stirling Prize showed the audience was almost half last year’s at 279,800.
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NewsPaul Morrell reappointed as chief construction adviser
Bonus year will allow Morrell to oversee reforms
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NewsAtelier Boronski beats Kengo Kuma to design Taiwan museum
Atelier Boronski has beaten Japanese rival Kengo Kuma to take first prize in the design competition for a new art museum in Taipei.
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OpinionRoger and out
Boots hears that Roger Zogolovitch has tendered his resignation of the RIBA Trust, the institute’s cultural arm, after failing to secure a special general meeting on its future.
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NewsAEW energy centre is first infrastructure scheme to get fast-track planning
Rookery South in Bedfordshire approved by Infrastructure Planning Commission
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NewsAllies & Morrison wins Rotterdam project
Allies & Morrison has been selected to design a mixed-use scheme in the centre of Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
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NewsSpanish firm MBM completes children's cancer centre
Barcelona practice MBM Arquitectes has completed a cancer centre in its home city, where children with cancer and their families can stay while they receive treatment.
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NewsRogers blasts planning changes in Lords
Labour peer says government’s proposals will “fragment” cities
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TechnicalNeo Bankside by Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners
The diagonal steel bracing is a core part of this residential development’s identity — and because of its prominence, it had to look exactly right
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TechnicalPhilip Richards Building by Mitchell Taylor Workshop
A mix of projecting and flush windows pierce the brickwork of a sensitive school building project in Somerset
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ReviewCultural Guide: October 17-23
This week’s cultural guide takes us to the dizzying heights of Deptford to explore the mixed-use spaces of this heterogeneous community, before brushing up on Radical Post-Modernism at the Royal Academy with Sean Griffiths of FAT, Edouard François and Charles Jencks.
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OpinionNod from creator
Those unconvinced by the new-look Park Hill Estate may want to read a letter in next month’s Architectural Review from its original architect Ivor Smith.
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NewsBritish architects eye £50m Chicago pier scheme
International competition attracts 250 architects including Hadid, Foster’s and Grimshaw
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NewsAvery plans timber tower for Siberia
Avery Associates has been asked to submit a masterplan for central Irkutsk, one of Siberia’s biggest cities.
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NewsJohn McAslan to carry out station security study
John McAslan & Partners has been commissioned to carry out a three-year counter-terrorism study on the security of railway station and terminal design across Europe.
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FeaturesTop 10 unbuilt towers: Narkomtiazhprom, by Ivan Leonidov
As plans for the kilometre-high Kingdom Tower in Saudi Arabia are unveiled, London’s Shard is nearly sheathed, and the Walkie-Talkie, Cheesegrater and Pinnacle all begin to emerge from the ground, we look back at 10 projects that weren’t quite so fortunate in their bids to make it off the drawing ...