All Building Design articles in 20 March 2009 – Page 3
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Review
Vu-topia: Homes for the Future (U*)- March 28
From American 1950s suburban promise of a bright future with the help of multi-talented robots (Leave it to Roll-Oh) to Charley’s plan to wave good bye to overcrowded cities in favour of the UK’s new towns, this session looks back at the post-war optimism and the modern home.
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Review
Hands Over the City (12*): May 9
In contrast the success of the Barbican estate, cheaply produced high-rise housing developments tainted the legacy of Le Corbusier and modernism, especially in Britain.
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Review
Une Ville à Chandigarh (PG*) (Dir. Alain Tanner): April 18
Dubbed the ‘utopian poster city of the 20th Century’, Le Corbusier’s masterplan for the capital of Punjabi was never completely finished.
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Review
Vu-topia: The City of Control: THX 1138 (Dir. George Lucas)- March 29
Set in the stark environment beneath the Earth’s surface, George Lucas’ first commercial feature envisages a de-personalised future civilization controlled by authoritarian robotic police.
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Review
Vu-topia: A Civic Endeavour (PG*): March 28
Global war, gleaming underground cities and a luddite's reaction to space travel, H.G Wells’ landmark Things to Come offers an epic 100 year prophecy.
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Review
Alexander Sturgis and Eric Parry the Holburne Project- March 25
Alexander Sturgis, Director of the Holburne and Eric Parry, architect of the Museum’s extension will be giving a lecture on their plans for the Holburne Project.
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News
Herzog & de Meuron's Portsmouth stadium put on ice
Herzog & de Meuron’s ambitious design for a 45,000-seat stadium for Portsmouth Football Club have been put on hold, the club has announced.
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News
Architect job losses up by 760%
The rate at which architects are joining the dole has accelerated to a year-on-year increase of 760%, it has emerged.
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News
Atkins warns LSC delay could cost hundreds of jobs
Hundreds of architectural and engineering jobs could be lost unless urgent action tackles the stalled Learning and Skills Council college-building programme, a major design firm has warned.
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News
Hadid: too many teams will produce a mediocre Paris
Zaha Hadid has hit out at French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s competition to rethink Paris, claiming that seeking advice from 10 teams of multidisciplinary consultants and architects is set to produce a “mediocre” city.
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News
Tube cost threat to Vauxhall cluster
Plans to see London’s Vauxhall area emerge as a new cluster of skyscrapers could be threatened by a proposed development tax.
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News
Adjaye's Wakefield market under fire
Wakefield Council insisted this week it had no plans to knock down a controversial David Adjaye-designed market hall, despite calls for its demolition from a council watchdog
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Hakes’ bridge design takes it to Moscow
London practice Hakes Associates has won the competition to design a £75 million bridge in Moscow which will link the main part of the city with a new town being built on its western outskirts.
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Features
Dot to Dot: March 20 2009
Name the building for the chance to win a copy of Félix Candela: engineer, builder, structural artist by Maria E Moreyra Garlock & David P Billington
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News
Concern as English Heritage cites Wikipedia in listing submission
Heritage body included user-edited website in key listing submission to government
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News
Kazakhstan beckons for jobless architects
Highly qualified architects who have been made redundant are having to take jobs in “unusual” locations including Kazakhstan, Armenia, Libya and Nigeria, recruitment experts claim.
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News
Driftwood design chosen for AA Pavilion
A curving, doughnut-like timber structure is to occupy London’s Bedford Square this summer after being selected as the winning student design in the AA’s annual pavilion competition.
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Wembley architects fear ‘ruinous cost’ of ruling
Foster’s and HOK Sport face £5m bill as judge orders them to answer design questions
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Opinion
Tense sense
I wonder whether you could exert some grammatical influence over your columnist Owen Hatherley? His otherwise thoughtful article on Milton Keynes (Urban trawl March 6) uses that creeping colloquialism: “we find two men and a dog sat outside”.