All Building Design articles in 31 October 2008
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RIBA launches research project into opportunities for disabled architects
RIBA, in collaboration with the University of the West of England, has launched a year-long study of the opportunities available to disabled architects, and how they are treated at work.
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Review
Shift: Sanaa and the New Museum
Shift has a great cover, embossed with a pattern replicating the New Museum’s expamet cladding, but what I enjoyed most about this book is the way it captures something of the spirit of the building, assembling a series of fragments that offer a broad insight into both the design and ...
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Stephen Holl Architects wins Copenhagen gateway contest
US-based practice Steven Holl Architects has won an international competition for a gateway tower development for Copenhagen harbour, called the LM Project.
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Conran replaces Foster on Weston hotel scheme
Foster & Partners has been dropped from a plan to redevelop the Royal Pier Hotel site in Weston-super-Mare and replaced by Conran & Partners.
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Review
Book Club: November titles up for review
Titles up for review in November in BD's Book Club take in a broad range of interests from modern Swedish design to portable architecture.
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News
Five shortlisted for flood-proof house
Five practices have been shortlisted in the RIBA competition to design a flood-proof house.
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Obama, architect of change, wins
While Democrats celebrate a momentous victory in the US, we review Barack Obama’s urban policies and hear how American architects are reacting.
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Building Study
Passivhaus design in Sweden
Sustainable design expert Henrietta Lynch reports on the strides made in spreading passiv principles to both new and old buildings alike in Scandinavia
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Competitions
For Sale: Design Classic Office Furniture
Items for sale include examples of the "NOMOS" range designed by Sir Norman Foster, built by TECNO of Italy, cca 1986
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Competitions
For sale: 2 bed Flat – Dartmouth Park, London NW5
£350K for Share of Freehold on the top floor of Victorian terrace house.
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News
Nightingale closes its Bristol and Exeter offices
Nightingale Associates is to shut offices in Bristol and Exeter in a move that could see up to 17 staff members leave the company.
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Competitions
Architecture category now open for 2009 Sony World Photography Awards
Entry is now open for architecture photographer of the year, both professional and amateur, one of 12 categories in the 2009 Sony World Photography Awards.
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News
Herzog & de Meuron Tenerife Arts Space officially opens
Herzog & de Meuron's Tenerife Arts Space (TEA) has been inaugurated in Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands.
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Features
Engineers and architects (video)
Watch Smack the Pony's sketch on the relationship between architects and engineers.
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News
Kyo Sung Woo’s graduate housing opens at Harvard
US-based architect Kyu Sung Woo’s graduate housing complex, 10 Akron Street, for Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has opened.
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MVRDV and Adept win contest for Copenhagen tower
Dutch practice MVRDV and Danish architect Adept have won a competition to design a 116m-high skyscraper in Copenhagen.
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Government may drop heritage bill to tackle credit crunch
The heritage protection bill may be axed from next year’s parliamentary programme to make way for legislation to help beat the credit crunch, culture minister Andy Burnham has signalled.
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Cash shortfall could close Lighthouse architecture centre
The Lighthouse, Scotland’s architecture and design centre, could face imminent closure unless Glasgow City Council agrees a financial rescue package later this month.
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Van Egaraat wins competition to design Budapest City Hall
Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat has won an international competition to design a new City Hall in Budapest, Hungary.
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Historic Berlin airport closes
The last planes have taken off from Berlin’s Tempelhof airport, after a referendum to save the airport failed to attract enough support.