All articles by Anna Winston – Page 23
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Blogs
Greenpoint Stadium
News Junkie casts its eye over the Cape Town stadium where England will play its next match.
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NewsTributes paid to Bill Mitchell, former architecture dean at MIT
Leading American architect Steven Holl has led tributes to Bill Mitchell, former dean of the MIT School of Architecture and BD columnist, who has died of cancer.
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NewsThe Wilberforce Health Centre
HLM’s £16 million health and well-being centre in Hull has started on site.
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NewsReiach & Hall Glasgow hospital wins international prize
Reiach & Hall’s £65 million New Stobhill Hospital in Glasgow has been named the world’s best health care building of its size.
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NewsCourt boost to RMJM’s Gazprom tower
A Russian court has thrown out an appeal against RMJM’s Gazprom skyscraper in St Petersburg.
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NewsEbbw Vale Environmental Resource Centre completed
Design Research Unit Wales has completed work on its £315,000 Environmental Resource Centre in Ebbw Vale.
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NewsUS green building standards ignore air quality, says report
The American green building accreditation system LEED has come under attack from health researchers who claim it conveys a “false impression of a healthy and safe building environment”.
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FeaturesSpace – the final frontier for architecture
Humans have been fascinated by outer space and its unknown possibilities since time immemorial, but for architects the realities of building on other planets and in the vacuum between them has only become a serious prospect in the last 50 years.
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NewsNew practice emerges as Buschow Henley splits
Buschow Henley is to relaunch itself as Henley Halebrown Rorrison.
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NewsODA scraps main Olympic wind turbine
The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) has abandoned plans to install a 130m-high wind turbine on the Olympic park site in Stratford, east London, citing “limited commercial interest” in the project.
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NewsMalcolm Fraser awarded the Architecture Grand Prix
Malcolm Fraser’s Scottish Ballet building in Glasgow has been awarded the Architecture Grand Prix in the Scottish Design Awards, despite failing to win an RIBA award or be nominated for the Doolan.
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NewsRussian leaders back opposition to RMJM’s Gazprom tower
Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has backed opponents of RMJM’s flagship Okhta Centre in St Petersburg in a major blow to the Gazprom tower project.
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Blogs
Architectural social networking for dummies
Architizer - the open source netwrok for architects
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Blogs
How Much Does Your Building Weigh Mr Foster? - sneak preview
It’s time to roll out the birthday bunting again as Norman Foster celebrates his 75th birthday on Tuesday.
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News
The Decentralisation and Localism Bill
The Queen’s speech is rarely an edge-of-the-seat affair. But with a new government comes new policies and the announcement of the Decentralisation and Localism Bill by Her Majesty on Tuesday has prompted a mixed, and occasionally worried, response from the architectural and construction communities.
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NewsLA art museum shortlist includes Koolhaas, Herzog & de Meuron and Foreign Office
American philanthropist and art collector Eli Broad has confirmed a six-strong shortlist for his new art museum in Los Angeles.
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Blogs
Couch cushion and cardboard fort architecture
With the bank holiday weekend rapidly approaching, cash strapped architects facing a long weekend stuck at home with the children may find some entertaining inspiration over on Build Blog.
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NewsUS survey shows hopes of recovery
Latest results from the American Institute of Architects monthly billings index have bolstered hopes of a recovery for the profession in the US.