All articles by Anna Winston – Page 46
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NewsBoxhome: Norway’s Rintala Eggertsson premiers its low-cost, low-energy flat
Norwegian practice Rintala Eggertsson Architects has designed a low-cost 19sq m home, Boxhome.
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NewsJean Nouvel’s $400m Los Angeles tower put on hold
Jean Nouvel’s first California project, a $400 million (£265 million), 45-storey tower on Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles, has been put on hold.
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NewsGazprom pledges to fully fund RMJM’s St Petersburg tower
Russian energy giant Gazprom has pledged to fund the 396m-high RMJM-designed Okhta Centre tower in St Petersburg after the city government suspended its contribution to the project.
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Star line-up announced for this year’s Mipim
The first details of this year’s Mipim property fair, to be held in Cannes from March 10-13, have been announced with a line-up of star architects sharing a stage to debate design and urban planning.
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NewsMatch the architect with the design for Salisbury's market place
Six designs to revamp Salisbury’s central market place have been shortlisted from an initial pool of 42 entries, but can you match the schemes to the design teams?
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NewsHerzog & de Meuron reveals design for Madrid bank HQ
Herzog & de Meuron has unveiled designs for the Madrid headquarters of Spanish bank BBVA.
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NewsCoop Himmelb(l)au's LA high school completed
Work has been completed on Austrian practice Coop Himmelb(l)au’s high school #9 in Los Angeles, USA.
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NewsHawkins Brown and Cullinan’s shortlisted for Croydon traffic route
Hawkins Brown and Edward Cullinan Architects have been shortlisted to design a key traffic route through Croydon town centre, a central part of Will Alsop’s masterplan for the area.
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AIA billings index dives again
The American Institute of Architects’ monthly billings index, which measures payments for non-residential architectural work, has hit a record low for the second month in a row.
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FeaturesPixel this: Designing intelligent objects
Marc Fredrickson has a post-graduate degree in architecture, but his California milieu meant that for years he designed computer games instead. Now with digital provider FormFonts 3D, he’s leading the quest for intelligent objects
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NewsTroubled centre on Mies prize shortlist
David Adjaye’s troubled Stephen Lawrence Centre has been nominated for one the biggest prizes in architecture, the Mies van der Rohe Award 2009.
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FeaturesThe shape of things to come in building information modelling
A new era of collaborative design and project management could be ushered in by building information modelling
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FeaturesArchitectural cake challenge
A rash of modernist gingerbread houses has appeared on the internet for the festive season. Among them, BD’s very own Gingerbread Tate Modern, a fine, if wonky replica of the gallery on the banks of the Thames, complete with jelly baby visitors, baked by BD reporter Anna Winston (see recipe ...
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Gingerbread Tate Modern: the recipe
Various gingerbread recipes were experimented with during the building of the Gingerbread Tate Modern, but the one below offered the best combination of structural integrity and taste-bud satisfaction.
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DCLG consults on zero carbon homes
The government is consulting on how to define zero carbon homes as part of its drive to make all new-build housing zero carbon by 2016.
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Haworth Tompkins scoops prestigious National Theatre competition
Haworth Tompkins has beaten four other shortlisted architects including David Chipperfield to develop a design strategy for the National Theatre.
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NewsObama appoints architect to head US housing department
US president-elect Barack Obama has appointed an architect, Shaun Donovan, to the post of secretary of housing and urban development in his incoming administration.
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NewsHalt Hadid Hoxton scheme, says Save
Save Britain’s Heritage has urged communities secretary Hazel Blears to call in Zaha Hadid’s scheme for Hoxton Square in Shoreditch, east London
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NewsDesign Awards 2009 shortlist revealed
AHMM’s Westminster Academy and Stirling prize winning Accordia housing scheme are among the shortlisted entries for the 2009 Brit Insurance Design Awards.
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NewsPiercy Conner seeks planning permission for Kolkata Sym Homes project
London’s Piercy Conner has submitted its steel Sym Homes project in Kolkata, India, for planning permission.