All Building Design articles in 28 November 2008
28 November 2008-
ReviewContemporary Housing
With such a general title, I was expecting a much larger book. This is more a compact reference guide to the author’s choice of 100 of the most significant housing projects of the past 10 years.
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ReviewModern Swedish Design: Three Founding Texts
The essays in this volume, translated for the first time into English, are three formative texts of the modern movement in Sweden from the turn of the 19th century to the 1930s.
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ReviewDigital by Design
Don't be misled by the title of this book – you won't find any parametric this or BIM that. You will find, however, lots of blurred boundaries and intersections between art and technology.
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FeaturesDot to dot results: November 21
Last week’s competition winner was Robert Rimell of 3DReid in London, who identified the Eden Project near St Austell in Cornwall by Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners.
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FeaturesDot to Dot: 28 November
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday December 3 for a chance to win a copy of Design & Plan in the Country House by Andor Gomme & Alison Maguire.
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News
Planning reforms could save £300m per year
Leading figures from the architecture, construction and planning sectors have welcomed the findings of a major review of the planning system, which recommends slashing red tape to save up to £300 million a year.
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New homes agency ‘will squeeze Cabe’
Super-quango to establish its own regional network of design champions
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News
Tim Foster wins planning appeal
Tim Foster Architects has won planning permission for a 9,000sq m office and retail development behind King’s Cross Station in central London following a public inquiry appeal.
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News
College appoints new rector
Paul Thompson, a former director of the Design Museum, has been unveiled as the rector of the Royal College of Art.
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News
Edaw’s city masterplan approved
Edaw’s masterplan for the redevelopment of north Manchester’s Strangeways district has been approved by the city council.
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ReviewRon Arad: busy wearing two hats
After 35 years, Ron Arad has formally divided his design and architecture output. Jessica Cargill Thompson finds out why, and what he thinks of the current exhibition of his work at the Pompidou Centre in Paris
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News
Arb defers decision on selecting architects
Arb has deferred its decision on whether to appoint or elect architect members to its board until after its elections next February.
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FeaturesArchitect Freestate’s hall of mirrors
Architect Freestate created a vast hall of mirrors for Sony Europe in Berlin this September
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NewsBack the borough architect
Planning departments can now refuse schemes for poor design quality, but lack the skills to do so
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FeaturesCulture of transparency: Nomad’s glass walls for architects’ bank Arquia in Bilbao
Arquia, a Spanish bank specialising in services for architects, upped the design stakes for its new Bilbao branch with walls created from giant pharmaceutical glass test tubes by architect Nomad
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Building StudyThe Architecture Research Unit’s islands of possibility (video)
London Metropolitan University’s Architecture Research Unit has proposed one of three schemes chosen for the next stage in the development of South Korea’s enormous new reclaimed city of Saemangeum.
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NewsPanter Hudspith’s forthcoming attraction for Tunbridge Wells
Panter Hudspith has revealed designs for its competition-winning redevelopment of the former Ritz cinema in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.