All Building Design articles in 16 November 2007
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ReviewPatrick Keiller: The City of the Future - until February 3
Patrick Keiller is highly regarded as one of the most original film-makers of his generation and is also a Research Fellow at the Royal College of Art. The City of the Future is an interactive exploration of urban space at the turn of the 20th century consisting of a multi-screen ...
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ReviewIn Conversation: Patrick Keiller and Roger Luckhurst – November 28
To coincide with the launch of The City of the Future exhibition join Patrick Keiller and Roger Luckhurst in conversation at the BFI Southbank. The talk starts at 6.10pm on Wednesday November 28 in NFT3, supported by the Arts & Humanities Research Council and the Royal College of Art
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ReviewAlicia Dubnyckyj: Two Cities - December 7 to January 6
Recent visits to San Francisco and New York, the two iconic cities on the east and west coast of the United States, are the subject of this exhibition. We are invited to share the artist’s experiences through her high-gloss images that reveal the generic city – slick and polished ...
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ReviewRCA talk series sponsored by BD: Daniel Kleinman and Nic Clear - December 11
Award winning Daniel Kleinman of Rattling Stick production is best known for the design of five Bond title sequences including ‘Casino Royale’.He joins architect and post-graduate tutor at the Bartlett School of Architecture, Nick Clear who specialises in the use of video, animation and motion graphics to generate spatial and ...
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ReviewSir Colin St John Wilson RA: Architect, Writer, Educator and Collector – November 28
This special event looks at the life and achievements of the late Sir Colin St John (Sandy) Wilson RA. His intellectual, academic and cultural contribution to architecture is examined by four speakers; Juhani Pallasmaa, Professor Peter Blundell Jones, Architect Eric Parry RA and finally Marco Livingstone at the Royal Academy ...
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NewsNo-one wants Ken’s “phallocratic” towers, says Johnson
Boris Johnson has upped his assault on London mayor Ken Livingstone’s plans for high density residential towers.
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ReviewAlex Lifschutz: One Building, Many Architects - Tuesday December 4th, 6.30pm
Very little work has been done to upgrade the pattern books that provided our housing and industrial buildings in the 18th and 19th centuries. But the principles developed in these, the foundation of our cities, can be brought up to date. Join Alex Lifschutz, of Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands Architects at ...
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BlogsNews Junkie: 17 and 18 November
This week: elderly art forgers, fat rabbits, 'pockets of pain' and an unhappy Mr. Blair...
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News
Wilkinson Eyre wins 2012 Olympic basketball arena
Wilkinson Eyre and KSS Design Group have beaten off competition from firms including Grimshaw and David Morley Architects to design the temporary basketball arena for the 2012 Olympics.The two firms are in a team with professional services group Sinclair Knight Merz and project manager Nussli International, which had been pitted ...
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FeaturesVenturiworld
In 1974 Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown posed at home in Philadelphia with mementos of their research for Learning from Las Vegas
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FeaturesA room with a viewport
Jonathan Reeves finds it is the small advances that really make a difference with VectorWorks’ latest upgrade
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NewsSeven Sisters store plan savaged
Residents protest against Pollard Thomas Edwards’ demolition proposal for Edwardian-era building
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Opinion
Smoked out
Alarm bells were ringing in BD Towers on Monday when it was discovered that plumes of black smoke darkening the City skies were coming from the Olympic Park.
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Opinion
Olympic winner
Sorry, BD, but does not the new Olympic stadium (News November 9) represent something of a coup?
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OpinionSecurity’s wider meaning
In the current security climate, the architect’s role is to dispel the feeling of living in a fortress
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OpinionMadin’s library is world-class
Clive Dutton, Birmingham’s director of planning and regeneration, described John Madin’s existing prize-winning 1972 Central Library (News October 19) as “a concrete monstrosity” and then, equally misinformed, rules out a competition for the design of a replacement on grounds of cost and time, giving figures of cost 10 times, and ...
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Opinion
Less is more
The Olympic stadium design does not deserve the brickbats; it is an elegantly economical solution to a very tricky brief.
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News
Land Securities splits into three
Land Securities is to split into three specialist, separately quoted entities focusing on retail, London and property outsourcing.