All Building Design articles in May 2022 – Page 3
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News
Moxon reveals designs for Worcestershire footbridge
Structure combines both river crossing and viaduct over adjacent floodplain
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Opinion
Architecture is ephemeral, urban design is eternal!
Most masterplans are never built but, once they are, they can last for ever – even if the name of the masterplanner is quickly forgotten, writes David Rudlin
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News
Heatherwick, LEAP and Alison Brooks among RIBA regional winners for 2022
Building of the year awards for projects including cancer support centre and modern reimagining of an Oxford quad
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News
Famous figures sign letter to save Oxford Street M&S
TV presenter Kevin McCloud and London Eye designer Julia Barfield among names trying to save retailer’s flagship
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Planning inspector green-lights controversial Whittam Cox scheme
Fourteen-storey development with 289 homes can be built on vacant Tyneside plot
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AHMM’s 36-storey Stratford tower set for go-ahead
Block will replace HMRC offices with new sixth-form centre and student housing for UAL
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Building Study
Building study: the Elizabeth line – a welcome civic legacy designed to last 120 years
From the contextual to the finely detailed, the new Elizabeth Line is an eclectic and ultimately uplifting addition to the capital’s ever expanding transport network, writes Ben Flatman
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News
AA appoints Cambridge professor as new director
Ingrid Schroder to step into role two years after dismissal of school’s last director
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Royal College of Art showcases Herzog & de Meuron campus
Source: Iwan Baan The Royal College of Art’s £135m design and innovation campus at Battersea, designed by Herzog & de Meuron
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News
Green light for first phase of ‘inside out’ estate regeneration
Masterplan drawn up by Levitt Bernstein, Proctor & Matthews Architects and Cullinan Studio aims to reduce antisocial behaviour on 1970s South London development
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Features
EQUITONE’s new texture, as timeless as the beauty of the moon
[Lunara]’s unique surface texture, covered with tiny, silken, irregular elevations and depressions, is reminiscent of the cratered landscape of the Moon. Its random-looking and non-repeating surface is due to a new production process and no two panels are exactly the same. Similar to the rest of the EQUITONE range, [lunara] ...
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Features
A temple to post-covid working culture: designing Google’s global headquarters
Google’s newly completed Bay View campus in Silicon Valley opened to staff last week. Tom Lowe spoke to Heatherwick group leader Eliot Postma about how the concept was developed
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News
Architects reveal biggest monthly fall in confidence since early days of pandemic
RIBA survey finds recent trend of declining optimism is accelerating as wider economy continues to weaken
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News
AOC bags grade II* cinema renovation project
Paignton Picture House will be transformed into “creative community space” with £3m in funding
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Features
Barbican Centre at 40: how an international arts venue took shape
The pioneering scheme is celebrating its 40th birthday. Former managing director Nicholas Kenyon explains how the initial plans for a residential development evolved
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News
National Gallery unveils revised Selldorf upgrade designs
Latest images of £30m proposals come ahead of planning application submission this summer
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Chipperfield wins Canadian parliament design competition
Joint bid with Toronto practice beats teams featuring Renzo Piano Building Workshop, BIG and Wilkinson Eyre
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Corstorphine & Wright’s Manchester tower approved at appeal
Planning inspector green-lights 28-storey student scheme that city council said used “poor quality cladding material”
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BIG triumphs in Prague concert hall competition
Practice scoops job with design allowing members of the public to climb up to the building’s roof
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News
Campaigners to raise RIBA elections row with Charity Commission
RIBA under pressure to scrap rule change barring new members from voting in upcoming presidential election