All Building Design articles in 19 November 2010
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NewsRiba condemns government for scrapping Core Housing Standards
Riba president Ruth Reed has expressed “serious concern” that the Homes & Communities Agency’s proposed Core Housing Standards will be abandoned.
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NewsWigglesworth looks at Robin Hood rescue
The Twentieth Century Society has commissioned Sarah Wigglesworth Architects to explore ways of re-using Robin Hood Gardens in a last-ditch bid to save the flats.
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NewsAga Khan Award for Architecture won by five practices
The richest prize in architecture will be shared between five schemes
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ReviewJonathan Meades & Will Alsop, The Free Word Centre in association the Little Atoms radio show Urban Renaissance?
Cultural heavyweights, Jonathan Meades and Will Alsop faced each other at Farringdon’s Free Word Centre on Friday night to debate the extent and success of a British urban renaissance. They remained almost motionless, straining not at the leash but the girdle.
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NewsAllies & Morrison and Rolfe Judd unveil schemes for Nine Elms
Further projects around the US Embassy in south London have been unveiled.
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NewsMichael Gove opens Feilden Clegg Bradley's new academy
Feilden Clegg Bradley’s Chelsea Academy was officially opened this week by Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Education.
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NewsArchitecture PLB wins planning for BSF school in Sussex
Architecture PLB has won planning for Bowden House School in East Sussex, one of the last of the projects delivered under Building Schools for the Future.
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NewsHCA to be cut in half
The Homes & Communities Agency is to be cut down to half its earlier size and lose half of its directors.
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NewsJack Pringle opens Dubai office to expand Pringle Brandon
The firm headed by former RIBA president Jack Pringle has opened an office in Dubai to target work across the Gulf.
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NewsWilkinson Eyre lands commission for Melbourne technology university
Wilkinson Eyre and Australian practice Sinclair Knight Merz have been commissioned to design an advanced manufacturing centre for Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia.
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NewsArchitect realises pipe dream with Iranian villa
Barsav Concept & Construction has completed work on a private house in Karaj, Iran.
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NewsAmerican billings index dives back into negative territory
After a month of positive billings, architectural practices in the US are once again reporting a decline in income
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NewsHopkins wins St Thomas' cladding competition
A team featuring Hopkins has won a £21 million scheme to re-clad the East Wing of St Thomas’ Hospital in central London.
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NewsNapier & Co wins planning for Leicestershire dog centre
The Dogs Trust charity has been granted planning permission to build a £7 million rescue centre in Leicestershire designed by Shrewsbury practice Napier & Co.
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NewsClinton and Bush donate $800,000 to architecture charity
Former US presidents George W Bush and Bill Clinton have donated $800,000 to Architecture for Humanity towards its rebuilding Haiti project
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NewsGovernment blow to campaign to recognise part II 'architects'
The campaign to improve the status of architectural assistants has been dealt a serious blow after a government minister refused to review the current registration process.
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NewsFoster's incomplete Vegas hotel faces demolition
A luxury high-rise hotel designed by Foster & Partners in Las Vegas may be demolished before completion due to “technical diffculties”.
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NewsCabe launches guide to shake up supermarket design
Cabe has today launched a major planning report which it hopes will make supermarkets rethink the design quality of their major schemes.
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ReviewCultural Guide: November 22- 28
This week’s cultural guide takes a photographic tour of rural Norfolk before getting into the nitty gritty of a major museum overhaul at the V&A.
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NewsWoods Bagot wins Perth Airport expansion project
Woods Bagot has landed the first phase of an airport scheme in Australia with a deal to expand Perth Airport’s international terminal.