All Building Design articles in 14 September 2007
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Competitions
Holiday let - Fishguard B&B
Pembrokeshire Country House B&B perched high above Fishguard with great views of the Preseli Mountains.
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Competitions
Wanted - 'A Garden and Three Houses' by Jane Brown and Peter Shepheard on Peter Aldington's work
Wanted: 'A Garden and Three Houses' by Jane Brown and Peter Shepheard on Peter Aldington's work
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Review
Richard Meier: Art and Architecture - until March 1
A solo retrospective of the architecture, design, sculpture and artwork of Pritzer Prize winning architect Richard Meier, will be held at the Louise T Blouin Institute this October. Known for AIA Award-winning projects such as the High Museum in Atlanta and the Frankfurt Museum for Decorative Arts in Germany, to ...
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Review
Publiek–until November 18
Publiek is a temporary exhibition intended to encourage exploration of the possible roles of contemporary art in the public realm in our city centre today. The city is changing; art changes with it.
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News
Doubts raised over credibility of Lib Dems' eco-plans
RIBA president Sunand Prasad issues a warning to the Liberal Democrat conference over zero-carbon plans
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News
EH blasts Viñoly's plans for Oxford
A £490 million masterplan by Rafael Viñoly for Oxford University will damage the “historical context” of the city centre unless it is revised, English Heritage has warned.The heritage quango has criticised proposals, currently out to consultation, for the 100,000sq m former Radcliffe Infirmary site because these involve demolition of the ...
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News
Bath arts complex shortlist revealed
Stanton Williams, Tony Fretton and Jamie Fobert are among those presenting competing visions for a new arts complex at Bath University this week.The RIBA-organised competition, which earlier this year shortlisted the three firms — alongside Penoyre & Prasad, and McInnes Usher McKnight Architects — from over 80 submissions, involves the ...
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Features
Ten contestants line up for BD's Cool Wall contest - images
Ten practices have been chosen to take part in the BD/100% Detail Cool Wall contest
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News
Make wins competition for German clothing HQ
Make has won an international competition to design a new headquarters for clothing company EDC, a division of Esprit
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News
Liverpool creates design framework to preserve World Heritage status
Liverpool City Council has agreed to create a design framework for its protected waterfront area in a bid to safeguard its World Heritage status.Mike Burchnall, assistant executive director of regeneration at the council, this week revealed the local authority has agreed to use £120,000 worth of grants on offer from ...
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Review
Stephen Williams Architects: Exhibition and UK book launch -until October 12
International Architect, Stephen Williams, will return to the UK this month for a combined exhibition and launch of his monograph from the Publishers DAAB in Cologne. The exhibition, including a snap-shot of recent architectural projects, is set to take place at the dreamspace gallery, EC1.
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News
News Junkie: 15 and 16 September
In this week's life-enhancing issue: upsizing your dwelling envelope, increasing your oxytocin, and finding 'paradise on Earth' at a turkey farm.
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Review
Space Age: Exploration, design and popular culture - until 6 April
The V&A Museum of Childhood will host Space Age: Exploration, design and popular culture.
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Review
Away From Home talks series - Each Wednesday until October 27
A series of talks to tie in with the New London Architecture’s exhibition, Away From Home, which looks at the future of hotel design and development in the capital
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Review
What to see during London Open House
This weekend over 600 buildings across London will open their doors to the public for the 15th annual Open House. Here are our highlights of what to see
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Opinion
Russian roulette
The Scots have always gone down well in St Petersburg — mainly thanks to architect Charles Cameron, the wandering Jock who designed several buildings for Catherine the Great in the city’s 18th century heyday.
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Opinion
Second rate
Arb will no doubt be mulling over its future this week in the wake of confirmation that the Tories’ Quality of Life group is calling for it to be scrapped.
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Opinion
Spaced out
Will Hurst suggests the RIBA should focus its attention on housing and climate change as the key issues of the day (Leader August 31), but there is little point in doing so if it continues to ignore the fundamental cause of the housing crisis, namely mass immigration.
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Opinion
The Office view
Imagine Slough and you imagine the long-suffering staff at Wernham Hogg, subjected daily to the antics of their boss David Brent in BBC sitcom The Office.