All Building Design articles in 20 March 2009
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Foster and Gehry hit as New York projects go on hold
Architect Frank Gehry has revealed that his troubled $4 billion Atlantic Yards scheme in New York is unlikely to be realised, as projects across New York are put on hold.
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RIBA begins search for new chief executive
The RIBA announces search for new chief executive as retirement looms for Richard Hastilow
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Simpson and Wilkinson Eyre South Bank towers approved
Communities secretary Hazel Blears has approved two huge tower schemes on London’s South Bank by Ian Simpson and Wilkinson Eyre following last year’s public inquiry.
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Whitechapel Gallery expansion unveiled
The Whitechapel Gallery in east London has unveiled its £13.5 million expansion and refurbishment by Belgian architects Robbrecht & Daem and Yaya nominee Witherford Watson Mann.
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Review
Le Corbusier and the Occult by JK Birksted
It has been a good year for Le Corbusier: a retrospective exhibition in Liverpool and London, numerous publications, lectures, movies and all sorts of Corbu-themed events.
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XS Extreme: Big Ideas, Small Buildings by Phyllis Richardson
This is a cute little book full of really imaginative ideas. I loved it. If like me, you are already a fan of the other XS Big Ideas, Small Buildings books, this one is definitely worth a read.
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Threat to Sydney Opera House refurb
Australian Prime Minster Kevin Rudd has refused to back a £400 million (Aus$900 million) scheme to refurbish the Sydney Opera House and incorporate Jørn Utzon’s original vision.
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£2.7m in regeneration grants for UK seaside towns
Grants worth almost £2.7 million have been awarded to help regenerate nine seaside towns across the UK.
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Yeang's Great Ormond St extension goes on site
Work on Ken Yeang’s £321 million extension to London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital began this week.
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Competitions
To Let: Desk Space in SW9
Desk spaces in attractive open plan Architects office – suit architect, designers, engineers etc 100 meters from Oval tube and with very good, buzzy, eating space
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Steampunk architecture on show
Steampunk started out as a style of fiction that combined historical romance and science fiction but has quickly become a do-it-yourself design movement.
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Call for religious centres to be adapted for community use
Churches, synagogues, mosques and temples should reinvent themselves as semi-secular centres serving their local communities, according to a new government report.
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Chipperfield's Seal House wins planning permission
David Chipperfield’s plan for Seal House, his first scheme in the City of London, has won planning permission.
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SM Architecture launches Gulf manifesto
The London and Kuwait based practice SM Architecture has launched the first design manifesto for the Gulf region.
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Competitions
Holiday Let: Summer in St Ives
Classic Edwardian villa in the Cornish seaside town of St Ives available for the whole month of August as one let.
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Multimedia
Architects at TED (videos)
Watch a selection of leading architectural thinkers talk at TED.
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Developer behind Allan Murray's Caltongate scheme goes bust
The developer behind Allan Murray’s controversial £300 million Caltongate scheme in Edinburgh has filed for administration.
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TP Bennett's Trinity Hospice
TP Bennett has unveiled its designs for Trinity Hospice in South London.
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Review
How buildings stand up
An exhibition of Cecil Balmond’s work shows he is all he’s cracked up to be, writes Sanford Kwinter
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Legal advice deals blow to 'smart PFI' campaign
The agency in charge of Building Schools for the Future (BSF) has received legal advice that so-called smart PFI – which takes design out of the bidding process – is a bad idea, the PPP Bulletin has learnt.