All Building Design articles in 24 October 2008 – Page 4
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News
OFT investigates agencies
Some of the UK’s biggest architectural recruitment agencies have been accused of price-fixing by the Office of Fair Trading.
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News
Village flat numbers slashed again
The Olympic village has been downsized again, losing a further 600 flats as cost pressures on the project continue to mount.
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NewsHotel tower rethink after Boris intervenes
A proposed 16-storey hotel scheme by Hamiltons on London’s South Bank is likely to be sent back to the drawing board after mayor Boris Johnson went against his own planning officers’ advice to criticise the project.
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NewsHope as key public projects accelerate
Architects have welcomed government plans to bring forward billions of pounds of public projects to stimulate the country’s faltering economy amid a further wave of redundancies in the profession.
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Richard Buckley dies at 45
Architect Richard Buckley, 45, a founding partner of Buckley Gray Yeoman, has drowned while on a family holiday. Buckley (pictured) set up the practice with his wife Fiammetta Gray in 1996.
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NewsMarks Barfield’s i360 kicks off
Work has finally started on Marks Barfields’ i360 tower at Brighton, East Sussex.
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FeaturesDot to dot: 24 October 2008
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday for a chance to win a copy of Michelangelo, Drawing & the Invention of Architecture by Cammy Brothers.
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FeaturesDot to dot results: October 17
Last week’s competition winner was Yvonne Duaz of David Wood Architects, London, who identified Le Corbusier’s Monastery of Sainte-Marie de la Tourette at Eveux, France.
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Foster wins commission to renovate New York’s Public Library
Foster & Partners has won the commission to re-design the New York Public Library in Manhattan as part of a $1 billion plan to transform the entire New York library system.
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CompetitionsHoliday Let: Converted barn, Mid Wales
Situated in Machynlleth, Mid Wales. This converted barn sleeps 6-8 and is an ideal base for Walking/Mountain Biking/ Doing Nothing/nice views
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Opinion
Sky’s the limit
The campaign to resurrect Powell & Moya’s famous Skylon tower has moved to east London, Boots learns.
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TechnicalTonkin Liu’s Promenade of Light at Old Street
Tonkin Liu has completed the first part of a three-phase project to upgrade the area around Old Street roundabout in central London
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Opinion
Jammy Lammy
Since leaving his architecture minister post in July 2007, David Lammy has been cultivating friends in high places.
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AnalysisStudents hit first by recession
Record numbers of graduates are chasing fast-disappearing jobs in recession-struck practices. Will Henley lends an ear
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OpinionDress sense
While brutalist tower blocks have their detractors, Clothkits, a Sussex based company that designs make-it-yourself cloth patterns for children’s clothes, rag dolls and such, has a new line in Trellick Tower designs.
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OpinionCzech mate
Boots hears Jan Kaplicky has rejected an architecture award from the Czech Culture Ministry. Last week’s BD cover star is engaged in a bitter parting of ways with former partner Amanda Levete.
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NewsBlears tells homes quango to promote good design
Communities secretary Hazel Blears called on the new Homes & Communities Agency to champion good design last week, as the super-quango revealed new details of its structure.
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ReviewBattersea’s big bamboo
Will Hunter is elevated by these works by Beijing-born Ai Weiwei now showing at Battersea’s Albion Gallery
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