All Building Design articles in 21 November 2008 – Page 2
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News
Moh Architects wins RIBA contest for Urban Splash’s Walsall waterfront regeneration
Vienna-based Moh Architects has won the RIBA competition to design a new waterfront project in Walsall for Urban Splash.
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Killian Pretty review calls for streamlining of planning system
The government's latest planning review, published today, has called for an overhaul of the system to save up to £300 million and reduce red tape.
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Cabe urges Oxford University to ditch Vinoly's masterplan for Radcliffe Infirmary scheme
Cabe has laid into a new framework document for a site at Oxford University developed from a previous masterplan by Rafael Viñoly Architects.
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Foster's Russian schemes in question as developer runs into trouble
Three of Foster & Partner’s major Russian projects are under threat after a series of economic blows hit Shalva Chigirinsky, the property magnate behind all three schemes.
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Chipperfield awarded Cubo d’Oro
David Chipperfield has been awarded the prestigious Cubo d’Oro prize.
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Review
More Mobile: Portable Architecture for Today
In the midst of all the heated debates about the best way forward during a recession, this book stands out as a testimony to non-conformist design paths that would satisfy any architect's creative intelligence.
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Review
Key Urban Housing of the Twentieth Century
Like any good puzzle, the planning of a flat has always had something of a compulsive fascination for me. So it was exciting to find a book that brings together such an interesting and eclectic collection of housing plans.
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News
Seven shortlisted for Liverpool’s Royal Court Theatre refurb
Seven practices, including AHMM and Studio 3, have been shortlisted for the competition to refurbish and update the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool.
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Public row over Conran & Partners’ Sheffield tower
A bitter public row has broken out over Sheffield’s £67 million St Paul’s Tower designed by Conran & Partners, in a dispute between developer and council that could leave the residential building unfinished.
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Superquango could save stalled schemes
Mothballed residential, office and retail schemes across the country could be revived by cash injections from the government’s new Homes & Communities Agency, its chairman has claimed.
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Opinion
Not so public
Your leader (October 24) suggests that the competition to choose an architect for Weston-super-Mare’s Grand Pier (not Palace Pier) was judged by the general public.
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Opinion
Do what, Prasad?
It was with great interest that I opened BD last week, especially as it promised “vital advice on how to stay afloat” and “[the] president’s way out of the recession”... timely advice indeed — or so I thought!
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Features
Lubetkin’s legacy is worth more
Two of Lubetkin’s London buildings are back in the news — all for the wrong reasons, of course
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News
Recession stalls Wapping HQ
News Corporation has put Future Systems’ design for a new headquarters at Wapping in east London on hold until the market picks up.
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RIBA to refurb HQ roof terraces
A competition to redesign three roof terraces at the RIBA’s London headquarters at 66 Portland Place has been launched.
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Review
Our modern hinterlands
Borderspaces, a photographic show at Hackney’s new Schwartz Gallery, charts city life at the very edge of change
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Opinion
RIBA is here for you, with a plan
Thank you for reporting my proposal that a national programme of energy upgrade of the existing housing stock would be a highly effective way to invest public money to mitigate the effects of the recession (News November 14). How strange then, to mislead your readers by suggesting this constitutes the ...
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New shades of grey
Duggan Morris Architects has won planning permission for a revised £1.5 million residential scheme in Lewisham, south London, after local opposition led to the withdrawal of an earlier application.