All Building Design articles in 7 December 2007
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NewsFoster designs new coastal city in Oman - images
Foster & Partners has revealed designs for its latest scheme, a masterplan for a new coastal city near Muscat in Oman reflecting traditional Omani architecture.Al Madina Al Zarqa, the Blue City, will be home to 200,000 people, and will be formed by a series of clustered communities featuring schools, a ...
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ReviewNew NewTown - February 20 to 21
The Architecture Foundation presents New New Town, a day-long symposium, with an associated guest lecture.
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![[5] COOP HIMMELB(L)AU](https://d3rcx32iafnn0o.cloudfront.net/Pictures/100x67/0/7/6/1601076_New_Image.jpg)
ReviewHimmelb(l)au: Beyond the Blue - until May 11
Beyond the Blue aims to be the most comprehensive museum presentation of the work of Coop Himmelb(l)au who operate worldwide, running offices in Vienna and in Los Angeles, California
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NewsMUMA beats Fretton to win Bath arts complex
McInnes Usher McKnight Architects (MUMA) has triumphed in a head-to-head with Tony Fretton Architects for a Bath University’s new arts complex.MUMA and Fretton were the final contenders in the RIBA-backed competition after three other shortlisted schemes by Stanton Williams, Jamie Fobert and Penoyre & Prasad were rejected in September.The project ...
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OpinionFight over Gazprom tower symbolises modern Russian politics
As the row escalates over RMJM’s controversial tower, Elaine Knutt visits St Petersburg and discovers Gazprom is caught up in wider political battles
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NewsNord wins Urban Splash competition for Stoke-on-Trent waterside
Nord has defeated Studio Egret West and Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands transform a site in Stoke-on-Trent for Urban Splash. The project will see the 4.6 hectare City Waterside site - centred on the Caldon Canal - redeveloped to include “iconic new buildings" as well as the refurbishment of a pottery ...
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NewsUrban Splash shortlists six for Birnbeck Pier
AOC, Flacq Architects and Richards Partington Architects are among the practices shortlisted for the Urban Splash/RIBA competition for Birnbeck Island and Pier in Weston-super-Mare.Also in the running are Levitate Architecture & Design Studio, MOH Architects from Vienna and Pierre d'Avoine with White Young Green Planning & Design.Urban Splash announced the ...
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News
Think Place wins Warsaw regen
Think Place has triumphed in an international competition to masterplan a major Warsaw regeneration project
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Opinion
Piers pressure
As a retired conservation officer and history teacher, I disagree strongly with Piers Gough’s arrogant assertion that English Heritage should only deal with the past.
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NewsNew perspective on St Petersburg
RMJM’s new Gazprom tower design has a public observation deck served by a dedicated lift and irregular triple-glazed windows intended to respond to St Petersburg’s cold winters and described by Kettle as a “fur coat”.
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NewsWestminster wavers on transport masterplan
The £2 billion Victoria Transport Interchange project by architects including KPF, Wilkinson Eyre and Allies & Morrison would “severely constrain” the area’s public realm, Westminster City Council has claimed
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Opinion
Just a minute
Is “just 113 design reviews” (News November 30) enough for A&DS to “alter the status quo” in Scotland?
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Opinion
Invisible touch
Cabe is still waiting to be bathed in the harsh spotlight of government scrutiny.
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News
RMJM locks horns with Unesco over St Petersburg tower
NEWS: Defiant RMJM tells Unesco to back off COMMENT: Gazprom battle symbolises Russian politics, argues Elaine Knutt from St Petersburg IN PICTURES: More images of the Gazprom tower
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Opinion
Going for Gold
Comments from bdonline on the court order that a developer must rebuild an illegally demolished Erno Goldfinger house (News November 30)
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NewsMayor’s green house goes on show
The Building Centre-designed “Number 1 Lower Carbon Drive” — a public exhibition in Trafalgar Square designed to showcase the mayor of London’s Green Homes initiative — has been unveiled
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NewsSutherland Hussey’s museum gem
Sutherland Hussey has won an international competition to build this £240 million museum for the Chinese city of Chengdu
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NewsGazprom woos international media over St Petersburg skyscraper
In the battle to win over the press, even the British consulate was drafted in
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OpinionWho gains most from Tate gift?
The government has given the Tate extension a cash boost, but which side really benefits from this generosity?