All Building Design articles in 31 July 2009 – Page 2
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News
Abir Architects rebuilds Sussex hostel
Abir Architects has completed work on a £5.1 million project to rebuild George Williams House, a hostel in Portslade, East Sussex.
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George Clarke becomes Civic Trust Awards’ patron
Architect and TV presenter George Clarke has become a patron of the Civic Trust Awards.
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Alsop quits practice 'to spend more time painting'
Archial says deal is good for both sides with Stirling Prize winner still a consultant
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Heatherwick’s B of the Bang is finally spiked
Thomas Heatherwick’s 56m-tall B of the Bang fizzled out yesterday as the last of the Manchester public artwork’s 180 hollow metal spikes were removed.
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US modernist Charles Gwathmey dies
One of America’s foremost modernist architects Charles Gwathmey has died in Manhattan aged 71 after suffering from cancer.
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Review
Review: Eco Masterplanning: the Work of Ken Yeang, by Ken Yeang
Ken Yeang has been a successful advocate of sustainable architecture for many years, gaining his reputation on the efficient bio-climatic designs for tall buildings. After becoming a director at Llewelyn Davies Yeang, he grabbed the opportunity to broaden his scope from the individual building to urban masterplanning. This book aims ...
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Review: Twenty Minutes in Manhattan, by Michael Sorkin
A book based around the contemplative opportunity offered by the daily act of walking through the city to work was always going to be something I could readily relate to, having been able to do exactly that for all but one of my 14 years in London. But Michael Sorkin’s ...
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Review
Review: The Architecture of Variation, edited by Lars Spuybroek
Digital design in recent times has become a necessity of most architectural practices. It has played an instrumental part in the process of design practice. This book has three parts made up of a group of essays by 16 leading thinkers on design innovation and their approach to producing variation.
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Review
Review: Biopolitics and the Emergence of Modern Architecture, by Sven-Olov Wallenstein
The relationship between philosophy and architecture is tenuous. Both architecture and philosophy are expressions of thought, either explicit or subliminal. Architecture in particular, being a collective rather than an individual endeavour, can be seen as a carrier of values and aspirations more widely held within society. In addition, the building ...
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Features
Carbuncle Cup 2009 longlist unveiled
This year BD has been deluged with entries for the title of the worst new building in the UK, with over 20 buildings nominated for the 2009 Carbuncle Cup.
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News
Gianni Botsford's Notting Hill garden house
Gianni Botsford Architects has won planning permission from Kensington and Chelsea for this £750,000 private house in Notting Hill, London.
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Cabe criticises plans for new US Embassy
Early plans for Britain’s new US Embassy have been attacked by Cabe, which has refused to support the outline planning application.
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HKS restructures London office
HKS has announced the appointment of two principals to run its UK business.
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Black Cloud falls on Bristol
Amsterdam-based architecture graduate Sash Reading has collaborated with Wales-based artists Heather and Ivan Morison to create the Black Cloud, a pavilion installation for Victoria Park in Bristol.
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DEGW to merge with cost consultant
Office specialist DEGW has agreed a deal to merge with cost consultant Davis Langdon.
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Foster and Nouvel's London collaboration set to be scrapped
A long-awaited collaboration between Norman Foster and Jean Nouvel in London looks set to be abandoned after the withdrawal of the developer behind the project.
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Allies & Morrison to open office in Qatar
Allies & Morrison has announced plans for its first office outside the UK with a new base in Doha, Qatar, opening this autumn.
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Multimedia
BD Podcast: Cabe audits, the British Museum and the Stirling shortlist
This week the BD team is joined by Rab Bennetts of Bennetts Associates to discuss design audits, the Stirling shortlist and the decision to reject RSHP's British museum extension.
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News
Studio Egret West's new London greenway
Studio Egret West has unveiled the first images of its design to revamp a broadway in south-west London for the local council.
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Review
BD’s guide to your cultural week- August 3 to August 9
Toast the talent of Korea with a new exhibition that showcases the very finest in up-and-coming Korean artists and fashion designers. If that doesn’t get your cultural juices flowing, then drop into New London Architecture to discuss the future of London’s workplaces or why not get your hands dirty with ...