All Building Design articles in 31 October 2008 – Page 2
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NewsTrump wins go-ahead for £1bn Scottish golf resort
The Scottish government has granted Donald Trump permission to build his controversial £1 billion golf resort at Balmedie, Aberdeenshire.
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NewsMuseum pretty in pink after guerrilla architect strikes
Painting the town… pink? A former Architect Association student and “guerrilla architect” has struck at the Foire Internationale D’art Contemporaine in Paris.
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BlogsNews Junkie: 1st and 2nd November
Botanical garden at the heart of Olympic plans, Georgian buildings at risk
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OpinionKitchens big enough to cook in – is it too much to ask?
From House to Home, a major conference for housebuilders, policymakers and sociologists is on November 20-21. Here, Prue Leith, cookery doyenne, discusses the bad effects poor design has on our lives
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CompetitionsThe Architect of the Year Awards 2008: In Pictures
View a selection of images from this year’s glittering Architect of the Year awards, held at the London Hilton on October 30.
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Opinion
Turned on...
A sleepy Saturday morning audience at the RIBA conference in Barcelona last weekend was suddenly jolted wide awake by Dutch legend Herman Hertzberger.
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OpinionTuned in...
Fresh from her recent fashion collaboration with Lacoste, for whom she is designing some shoes, Zaha Hadid is now turning her attention to Bach — or more precisely to a room for listening to Bach — for next year’s Manchester International Festival.
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News
Scottish planning shakeup
The Scottish government has revealed a range of measures to speed up its planning system, in a move it calls a “fundamental shift” in its approach to planning.
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Toolkit to revitalise Park Royal
Cambridge-based architect 5th Studio has put forward proposals to revitalise west London’s Park Royal, Europe’s largest industrial estate.
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NewsWalsall packs a punch
A £2 million youth centre and boxing club in the West Midlands by Sjölander da Cruz Architects has been granted planning permission.
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CompetitionsOffices: ShedKM
In this highly competitive category, ShedKM has demonstrated not only a great understanding of the office environment but how inventive working spaces can be created from seemingly redundant buildings.
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OpinionRay of light
Madonna’s divorce from British film director Guy Ritchie may be splashed all over the papers but at least the queen of pop now has architecture to take her mind off it all.
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Opinion
Late intervention
The Kensington & Chelsea Exhibition Road photo montage (Letters October 24) indicates wall-to-wall paving of an area equal to Parliament Square.
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NewsViñoly inside out
Rafael Viñoly’s first completed project in the UK, Leicester’s £61 million Curve theatre, opened to visitors this week.
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CompetitionsTransport: Grimshaw
Despite being a new category this year, transport was highly competitive, with very good contenders battling it out for the main prize.
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NewsWood is good for Norwich
Sheppard Robson has won the competition to design Norfolk’s first Academy project, for developer Kier Education.
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OpinionGetting the hump
Following the selection of the winner of the Weston-super-Mare pier competition by the fashionably democratic X Factor, Strictly ad nauseum process (News October 24), I note the “plans” have to be approved by six assorted “authorities”. Only six?
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Yorkshire events pavilion shortlist
RIBA Yorkshire and regional development agency Yorkshire Forward have revealed their shortlist for a £650,000 mobile pavilion.