All articles by Anna Winston – Page 31
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NewsHodder and Reinke vie for Gateway House job
Hodder & Partners and Stephan Reinke Architects have both been appointed to draw up separate proposals for the redevelopment of Richard Seifert’s Gateway House in Manchester
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When architects fight back
Design review panels are meant to help ensure that local councils or the equivalent stand by decent architecture. But in fact they rarely have any real power. So bravo to the seven architects of the Downtown Ottawa Urban Design Review Panel, who have taken a collective stand against a city ...
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NewsTesco at the hub of Collado Collins £160m scheme for east London
Collado Collins has submitted a £160 million 4.5ha mixed use scheme for planning, anchored by a new Tesco.
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NewsHeatherwick fires up plans for Stockton power plant
Designer Thomas Heatherwick is working on plans for a £150 million, 49 megawatt biomass power plant in Stockton-on-Tees, north-east England
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Will everyone please stop freaking out over Ayn Rand
A rather good cartoon by Peter Bagge from the Ayn Rand themed December edition of Reason magazine ... A bigger and more readble version is available on the Reason website here
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World of Warcraft - an architectural perspective?
News Junkie has encountered a fair few trained architects who have ended up using their 3d skills to serves the entertainment industry. After all, in a recession building a virtual building that will actually get used in a virtual city environment is preferable to building nothing at all and gaming ...
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Competitions3XN wins Danish courthouse competition
Danish practice 3XN has beaten three other shortlisted teams to win a competition to design an addition to the neo-classical Frederiksberg Courthouse in Frederiksberg, Denmark.
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When is it ok to demolish a Mies?
The decision to knock down a a Mies van der Rohe designed 'hut' on the Illinois Institute of Technology Campus in Chicago has predictably caused distress among Mies fans. But there are a few dissident voices out there applauding the decision...The powers that be in Chicago have sanctioned the demolition ...
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NewsBarrett Lloyd Davis wins planning for Chelsea private house
Barrett Lloyd Davis has won planning permission for a new six storey private house in a conservation area in the heart of Chelsea, west London.
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Candy brothers name Charles and Boris in Chelsea Barracks case
Nick and Christian Candy have called for Prince Charles to be examined as a witness in their £81 million case against the Qatari Royal family over the collapse of the £3 billion Chelsea Barracks project.
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Heatherwick to design biomass power plant in Stockton
Designer Thomas Heatherwick has been appointed to design a £150 million, 49 megawatt biomass power plant in Stockton on Tees, north-east England, BD can exclusively reveal.
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Grimshaw, Mather and Gehl to masterplan Essex development
Grimshaw, Rick Mather and Jan Gehl have been appointed to design a masterplan for the development of North Harlow in Essex by developers Land Securities and Places for People.
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NewsAnger over efforts to stop Milton Keynes centre listing
A campaign to prevent the listing of the Central Milton Keynes shopping centre has prompted an angry reaction from the 1970s building’s original architects
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David Morley to design Olympics water polo venue
David Morley Architects has been appointed to design a temporary 5,000-seat water polo venue for the London 2012 Olympics.
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An architect is for life.
News Junkie has been told by many architects that they will never retire and there are certainly a fair few still practicing well into their twilight years......and to prove you can't keep a good architect down, the 101 year old Oscar Niemeyer has returned to work just weeks after surgery ...
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NewsSheppard Robson's Peak completes
The building, which replaces two existing structures that occupied the site adjoining the Apollo Theatre, features 10,400 sq m of office space over eight floors and 1,780 sq m of retail space across the ground and lower ground levels.
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NewsGreen Building Council calls for halving of built environment’s emissions
The UK Green Building Council today called for a 50% cut in carbon emissions from the built environment by 2020.
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Behind the scenes at Heatherwick Studio
Thomas Heatherwick is an unpredictable man. One minute he's creating a multi-million pound design for the Shanghai Expo and the next he's recreating his double rolling bridge concept on a float for the City Bridge Trust's offering at the annual Lord Mayor's Show in London...News Junkie went behind the scenes ...
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Who has an RCA secret?
It seems that the voice of architectural dissent has broken into the RCA via the college's Secret postcard exhibition. Does this mean architecture students are rediscovering their politics or is it the work of a well known anti-royalist British architect...Someone has submitted an anti-royalist architectural statement as part of ...