All Building Design articles in 27 June 2008 – Page 2
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News
Chipperfield wins first French competition
David Chipperfield has won his first competition in France with this scheme for a new gateway building at HEC School of Management in Paris.
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Protestors set to fight on as Holland Park wins planning permission
Kensington & Chelsea Council has granted planning permission for Aedas’s highly controversial design for London’s Holland Park School.
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Robin Hood Gardens will not be listed
Robin Hood Gardens estate will not be listed, the government announced on Tuesday.
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English Heritage looks to public in latest round of Stonehenge visitor centre saga
English Heritage is to launch a public consultation to find a new site for its long-planned Stonehenge visitor centre.
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Multimedia
Zaha Hadid on shoes (video)
Watch the creation process of a pair of Zaha Hadid designed shoes in collaboration with Brazilian shoe brand Melissa.
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News
RIBA National and European Award winners announced
Contenders for the Stirling Prize shortlist were revealed at the RIBA National and International Awards at London’s Hilton Hotel on Friday night.
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Architects join forces on West End infrastructure plan
A group of architects have joined forces to examine how key West End sites could be knitted into one overarching infrastructural plan.
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Heritage Fund pledges £23m for threatened buildings
The Heritage Lottery Fund on Friday pledged £23 million for scores of threatened buildings, including £7 million for a grade II* listed church in Bolton and Georgian town house in Llanelli in Wales.
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News
Robin Hood Gardens competition: Entries round-up
The response to the BD/AF competition for idea for the redevelopment of Robin Hood Gardens drew a phenomenal response from architects all around the globe.
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RMJM's Russian tower houses 'hanging' garden
RMJM has unveiled exclusive images of a proposed tower building in Ekaterinburg, Russia’s third largest city, which houses a vertical ‘hanging’ garden – believed to be the only one of its kind in the world.
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Zoran Radivojevic's design for Robin Hood Gardens in depth
Zoran Radivojevic (Cazenove Architects) wowed the judges to take first place in the Robin Hood Gardens competition with his treatment of the buildings as giant carcasses. Explore Radivojevic's design in more depth.
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Robin Hood Gardens design competition: The results
The top entries in BD and the Architecture Foundation’s ideas competition for Robin Hood Gardens show that inspired refurbishment of the estate can give it a new vibrancy while reaching the required density levels.
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Ben Addy's design for Robin Hood Gardens in depth
Ben Addy (Moxton Architects) took third place in the Robin Hood Gardens design competition with his light-touch approach to the Smithsons' masterplan. Explore Addy's design in more depth.
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Opinion
Turn it up
All that is necessary for bad men to succeed is that brave men do nothing... why shouldn’t presidential hopefuls confront the RIBA’s way of doing things — with top heavy committees looking after whose interest?
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Opinion
Shock therapy
Every time the presidential campaign comes around, someone criticises the RIBA and the staff come over all shocked (News June 20).
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Opinion
Sensitive soul
A few days later, Boots caught up with Chipperfield again at the Soane, this time at a debate on the Neues
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Opinion
Power vacuum
Asked to comment on Rafael Viñoly’s massive Battersea Power Station proposals — roundly condemned by his predecessor George Ferguson — RIBA president Sunand Prasad said: “I’m not going to remark on that.”
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Opinion
Out of time
Boots trusts that last weekend’s RIBA NW Spring Ball didn’t send out too ominous a message about architects’ ability to complete their buildings on time.