All Building Design articles in 18 January 2008 – Page 4
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OpinionWill you be bidding to design a nuclear power station?
Nuclear energy is back on the agenda, and someone’s got to design the power stations. Martin Pease says he would step up to the challenge, while George Ferguson we owe it to our kids to play no part in it
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NewsLet the games begin at King’s College School’s new sports hall
Arup Associates has won a limited design competition for a new sports and music development at King’s College School in Cambridge.
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Bauhaus launches social housing prize
The Bauhaus has launched a social housing award for young architects based on the projects that made the design school’s name in its 1920s heyday.
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Atkins fights St James’s overhaul
Atkins has attacked development plans for the St James’s area of central London as inappropriate, claiming the area is “in danger of losing its identity”.
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TechnicalArt blasts into the modern store
Stanton Williams on integrating artwork into the facade of a new Bristol department store
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Welsh aqueduct’s world status bid
Culture secretary James Purnell has nominated Wales’ Pontcysyllte aqueduct and canal for Unesco world heritage site status.
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OpinionPlanning appeal must be saved
I was shocked at an item in the recent RIBA newsletter emailed to members.
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NewsDelays mean Alsop pavilion at Headingley misses Ashes
A proposed £17 million cricket pavilion designed by Will Alsop for Headingley Carnegie cricket stadium in Leeds will not be ready for next year’s Ashes series following a series of delays and design changes.
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Gates looks ahead
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has called this “the digital decade” and predicts “dramatic advances in hardware and software” including more natural user interfaces, high definition as standard and more web-based storage , making information instantly available anywhere.
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Eco-towns role for new agency
The Homes & Communities Agency will take a key role in the creation of Gordon Brown’s 10 eco-towns, the government has revealed.
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Adobe record results
Adobe Systems, maker of Photoshop and many other programs common in design offices, has reported record results for the three months ending 30 November 2007.
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Opinion
Regional accent
We are concerned at the suggestion that excellence is confined to the London centres.
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Unesco still worried about Gazprom tower
Unesco has strongly denied reports it no longer has concerns about the impact of RMJM’s Gazprom tower on St Petersburg, saying it has been misrepresented.
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NewsTwo of three Europan 9 winners announced
Only two winners for Europan 9’s three UK sites were announced on Wednesday.
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NewsHedge fund takes 73% stake in SMC
SMC Group is set to begin a round of new acquisitions after hedge fund Ironshield Special Situations Master Fund took a 73% share in the business, becoming the majority shareholder.
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FeaturesGlenn Howell's architects provide Will Schofield, 27, with his first taste of a job in the world of architecture.
My first year out from Cardiff University was spent with Glenn Howells, and I was offered a job there after completing my part II in 2003.
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Burns museum delayed to 2010
The Robert Burns International Museum, by Edinburgh firm Simpson & Brown, will not be ready by 2009, the 250th anniversary of the poet’s birth, because of funding delays.
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FeaturesLast chance to vote in Zumtobel photo contest
Twenty photographs were shortlisted in Zumtobel's annual competition. You can still view the shortlisted images and vote for your favourite.