All Building Design articles in 8 August 2008 – Page 2
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News
Credit crunch threatens two major tower schemes
The future of two multi-million pound tower projects is hanging in the balance as a result of the UK’s worsening credit crunch.
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TechnicalPerformance on the move
Norwegian firm Various Architects has designed the world’s biggest portable performance venue. The 90m by 60m Mobile Performance Venue (MPV) can hold 3,500 people and has a total performance space of 2,000 sqm.
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OpinionThe future of the skyscraper?
New York-based eVolo Architecture has published a book on the future of the skyscraper, presenting the best 60 projects arising from an ideas competition the firm has been running annually since 2006.
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Building StudyBeijing: the architecture of the Games
As the Beijing Olympic Games opens this Friday, Claire Dodd takes a look at the venues that are to house the event – from Herzog & de Meuron's headline National Stadium to the Water Cube and lesser known venues.
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Opinion
Tackle turnout
Congratulations to Ruth Reed for becoming the first woman president of the RIBA.
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Opinion
Power of prayer
The apparent difficulty in finding a viable use for Battersea Power Station might be solved by resurrecting my 1990 scheme for a Metropolitan Mosque.
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ReviewSert in thrall to the makeover
A new book by Eric Mumford & Hashim Sarkis tells how Josep Lluís Sert was a little too in love with ordering the city, says Thomas Muirhead
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ReviewHadrian’s purple patch
As the British Museum stages a major exhibition on the Roman emperor Hadrian, Hugh Aldersey-Williams takes a tour round his imperial villa at Tivoli and talks to architects about its lasting influence
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NewsTheatre foyer given the go-ahead
CZWG’s East Terrace Foyer, part of its Bournemouth pavilion and gardens project, has been granted planning permission
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RIBA looking for floodproof home
RIBA and insurer Norwich Union have launched a joint competition to design a floodproof home.
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NZ masterplan goes to Farrells
Farrells has beaten competition from Foster & Partners, Frank Gehry, SOM and Gensler to masterplan a mixed-use redevelopment scheme in Auckland, New Zealand.
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Opinion
Planning to fail
In response to Phil Kirby’s defence of planning services (Debate August 1), most applications are not dealt with by elected representatives but farmed out to the “private sector” in the form of paid planning officers making decisions under delegated powers.
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News
Flint on the defence over eco-town plans
Housing minister Caroline Flint has insisted the government is making “significant progress” with its eco-towns plan, despite a report from an advisory panel which pointed out serious flaws in many of the shortlisted proposals.
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Opinion
Waking the dead
Sue Roaf makes reference to the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists and comments made at the Oxford Conference (Letters August 1).
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News
Tom Russell in eco-village coup
Tom Russell Architects has won a RIBA competition to turn Lawrenny in Pembrokeshire into an eco-village
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NewsConran set to convert hall to flats
Conran & Partners has received planning permission to convert and extend a grade II listed building by Royal Festival Hall architect Leslie Martin
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NewsClear run for Foster scheme in Croydon
A 150,000sq m scheme by Foster & Partners now looks likely to be built at south London’s Croydon Gateway site after communities secretary Hazel Blears effectively ruled out rival plans by Michael Aukett Architects.
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NewsKevin McCloud’s own ‘grand design’ in chaos
TV presenter replaces Wright & Wright with practice ready to work weekends for no money
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NewsCornish keeps energy low in brownfield office plan
Cornish Architects is set to transform a brownfield site in Denham, South Buckinghamshire, into low-energy office space.