All Building Design articles in 19 December 2008
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NewsBoxhome: Norway’s Rintala Eggertsson premiers its low-cost, low-energy flat
Norwegian practice Rintala Eggertsson Architects has designed a low-cost 19sq m home, Boxhome.
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NewsJean Nouvel’s $400m Los Angeles tower put on hold
Jean Nouvel’s first California project, a $400 million (£265 million), 45-storey tower on Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles, has been put on hold.
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NewsFoster dragged into Wembley legal row
lawsuit over access to architectural staff could signal wider battle
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NewsFuture Systems' London Routemaster bus
This striking design is Future Systems' vision of how the new London Routemaster bus should look.
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NewsBattersea developer warns against blocking shorter tower
The developer behind Rafael Viñoly’s controversial £4.5 billion scheme for Battersea Power Station has warned that blocking its revised tower — now 250m high rather than 300m — could jeopardise the wider Nine Elms area regeneration.
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NewsCabe slams poor spaces at KPF’s Victoria interchange
Cabe has criticised Kohn Pederson Fox’s latest designs for the £2 billion Victoria Transport Interchange scheme in London, saying it has major concerns with the project’s urban design principles.
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NewsIs architecture heading for the rocks?
Global economic conditions could be worse than expected according to some industry experts, says David Littlefield
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NewsHow are leading architects coping with the global financial storm?
As architecture is battered by the chill winds of recession, how do leading firms plan to cope with the lean years ahead? David Littlefield asked some of the world’s largest architecture practices about their strategies
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News£3m restoration for UK's oldest mosque
England’s oldest mosque is undergoing a £3 million refurbishment in an effort to restore the building to its former glory.
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MultimediaSchwartz and Alsop debate the role of landscape architects (video)
Can Martha Schwartz change Will Alsop’s famously acerbic views on landscape architects?
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NewsBarber wins Shepherds Bush contest
Peter Barber, architect of the award-winning Donnybrook Quarter housing scheme in east London’s Tower Hamlets, has won a contest to design an urban quarter in Shepherds Bush, west London.
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EH legal spending soars past £1.6 million
Heritage groups dismiss criticism in welcoming robust protective stance
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NewsGazprom pledges to fully fund RMJM’s St Petersburg tower
Russian energy giant Gazprom has pledged to fund the 396m-high RMJM-designed Okhta Centre tower in St Petersburg after the city government suspended its contribution to the project.
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NewsCamillin Denny submits plans for Hove seafront tower
Plans have been submitted for a new 15-floor mixed-use tower on Hove's seafront.
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Star line-up announced for this year’s Mipim
The first details of this year’s Mipim property fair, to be held in Cannes from March 10-13, have been announced with a line-up of star architects sharing a stage to debate design and urban planning.
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MultimediaThe James Stirling Memorial lecture by Studio Works (video)
Watch and listen to Robert Mangurian and Mary-Ann Ray of Studio Works give the James Stirling Memorial lecture at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA).
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NewsMatch the architect with the design for Salisbury's market place
Six designs to revamp Salisbury’s central market place have been shortlisted from an initial pool of 42 entries, but can you match the schemes to the design teams?
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NewsHerzog & de Meuron reveals design for Madrid bank HQ
Herzog & de Meuron has unveiled designs for the Madrid headquarters of Spanish bank BBVA.
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