All Building Design articles in 18 January 2008
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NewsScott, Wigglesworth and Gehl on winning Hull Fruit Market team
Richard Scott of Surface Architects is to lead the redevelopment a key slice of Hull's historic Fruit Market. Also on the team are Sarah Wigglesworth, urbanist Jan Gehl, Irena Bauman of Bauman Lyons, and Grimsby-based Hodson Architects.Hull-born Scott and his team will produce detailed designs for the market's “central development ...
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Paul King to chair Think conference
UK Green Building Council chief executive promises "radical thinking on sustainability" at May event
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NewsArup Sport wins Singapore sports complex
British firm Arup Sport has been selected to design Singapore’s new ‘sports hub’, the largest sports PPP project in the world.Working with local firm DP Architects, the Arup Sport consortium beat competition from HOK Sport and former Herzog & de Meuron architect Tim Hupe to land the Premier Park job, ...
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NewsCouncil sues over illegal work to Putney bridge
Disgraced architect Clifford Gardner could face jail after drilling holes in listed bridge
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NewsFoster's Shoreditch high rise challenged by rival scheme
Local campaigners commission Willingdale Associates in bid to preserve landmark Light Bar against Foster's Bishops's Place redevelopment
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ReviewTaketo Shimohigoshi with AAE + FAM Arquitectura y Urbanismo: January 31
Taketo Shimohigoshi will be talking about the architectural landscape of central Tokyo. Shimohigoshi has been considering the relationships between architecture and the overcrowded image of the city and will talk about his ideas, using some of his projects by way of example.
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ReviewKenneth Martin and Mary Martin: Constructed Works - until April 20
In their first joint show since 1971, Kenneth and Mary Martin, two of Britain’s most important post-war abstract artists, explore their interest in mathematical principles and repeated forms and also their belief in art’s role in improving public life.
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CompetitionsFor sale - home/office furniture - 2 Ikea Poang chairs and Ikea Kolsvik coffee table
The chairs are home-Office furniture and the high back provides great support for your neck. Layer-glued, bent beech frame gives relaxing resilience. Black frame, dark red covers, all in perfect condition.
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ReviewBeyond live/work: Frances Holliss lecture - 18 February
"Presenting her doctoral research as part of the London Met department of architecture's 2008 public lecture series, architect and academic Frances Holliss will discuss buildings that combine dwelling and workplace. She will establish this as an old but little written about building type that has substantial contemporary relevance ...
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NewsBDP joint venture wins competition to design Kiev children's hospital
BDPgroupe6, a collaboration between UK practice BDP and French practice Groupe6, has won a competition to design a 250-bed children's hospital in Kiev. The team beat six other practices to design the All Ukrainian Health Protection Centre for Mothers and Children (The Children's Hospital of the Future), after beating six ...
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ReviewWork Architecture Company - February 13
Concluding lecture in the Winter Nights: New York series organised by the Architecture Foundation and sponsored by BD
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NewsToday Dubai, tomorrow the Universe
From the developers that gave you “The World” - the coastal archipelago in Dubai of reclaimed islands designed to resemble the continents – comes “The Universe”.The massive waterfront project which, inevitably, draws inspiration from the heavens above, was unveiled by Dubai property giant Nakheel last week.Concept images reveal a ...
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NewsBdonline holds world's first virtual careers fair
Bdonline makes history this week as we host the world’s first live virtual careers fair
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BlogsNews Junkie — 19 and 20 January
Its going to get worse before it gets better, will western civilization make it through to the end of the cruellest month? This week the cultural cold war, abusive estate agents and giant piles of wood wash up on southern beaches.
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CompetitionsHoliday let - Andalucia
Casa Bonita is in a small hamlet of La Realenga de Agricampe with similar houses, some of which are still used as small holding by Spanish farmers.
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NewsFoster's and Wilkinson Eyre battle for St Petersburg masterplan
Wilkinson Eyre and Foster & Partners will compete for a major masterplanning commission in St Petersburg after beating off strong competition from Dutch megastars Rem Koolhaas and MVRDV and fellow British firm PRP.The two practices will now go head to head to land the commission to develop plans for Apraksin ...
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FeaturesA stork on my wing mirror
Before starting his first full-time job in architecture, Paul Ruff spent two months working in a school in Tanzania, meeting the President and overcoming his preconceptions
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NewsSave 25% off Building with steel
It's a steel: Each month Riba bookshop offers BD readers 25% off a recommended title. For January, it is Building with steel: Principles, details, examples.
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NewsWorld of water
Work has begun on this £9 million HQ by Faulkner Brown Architects for Essex & Suffolk Water in Chelmsford, Essex.