Communities secretary Eric Pickles

Government gives £3 billion for London housing

7 February 2012

Greater London Authority will manage funds under Localism Act

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Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron

Herzog and de Meuron teams up with Ai Weiwei on Serpentine pavilion

7 February 2012

Designers behind Beijing’s Bird’s Nest stadium work together again

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Zhengdong New District Transport Hub masterplan - BDP

BDP wins Chinese transport masterplan competition

7 February 2012

Scheme includes towers, shopping mall and a park

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York Water Gate and the Adelphi from the River by Moonlight (circa 1850), two of the many buildings featured in Dickens’s novels that no longer stand.

Great innovations: Dickens and architecture Subscription Required

7 February 2012

Dickens’s approach to architecture was more phlegmatic and utilitarian than many bicentenary tributes suggest

Sustainable Building Envelope Centre

SBEC sustainability centre finds ways to push the envelope Subscription Required

6 February 2012

The Sustainable Building Envelope Centre has been established to harness the building fabric to generate energy. Here is a look at its ambitions and some of the key technologies under development

Maggie’s Nottingham occupies a sloping site in a secluded part of the hospital grounds.

Care centre’s fearless symmetry Subscription Required

3 February 2012

The unconventional geometry of CZWG’s Maggie’s Nottingham is made up of simple steel elements

1960 Olympic Village, Rome

Julian Lewis’s inspiration: the 1960 Olympic Village, Rome Subscription Required

2 February 2012

Julian Lewis of East looks to the outskirts of Rome for an example of rich urban placemaking

Looking north across Cromwell Road.

Exhibition Road, London, by Dixon Jones Subscription Required

1 February 2012

Dixon Jones’s shared-space scheme for Exhibition Road paves the way for many more creative London streetscapes

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Terry Farrell: "Recessions are the right time to masterplan"

19 January 2012

Terry Farrell discusses creating a better city and alternatives to Foster’s proposal for a Thames Estuary airport at the Movers and Shakers networking breakfast

Still from Siza sings by Fernando Guerra

Alvaro Siza sings the Beatles Video

27 December 2011

We couldn’t resist sharing this behind-the-scenes video of Siza at work shot by Fernando Guerra

Shenzhen Stock Exchange by OMA

Buildings of 2012: Shenzhen Stock Exchange by OMA

5 January 2012

BD looks ahead to some of the key projects around the world due for completion in 2012

CPD

CR Laurence’s Taper-Loc system was used to install glass barriers at the Imperial War Museum in London

CPD 2011 Module 14: Glass barrier systems

15 December 2011

This module looks at different types of glass barrier systems

MediaCityUK, Salford Quays

Plans for MediaCityUK extension submitted

6 January 2012

Carbuncle Cup winner to see additional 500,000sq m of sustainable development

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Serie Architects, BMW pavilion

Serie Architects reveals BMW's Olympic pavilion

7 February 2012

‘Floating’ structure for 2012 Olympic games sponsor

Ellis Woodman - editor

Rogers' broader education risks also being shallower

7 February 2012

Architecture students have enough to learn in their first three years without further spreading the curriculum

Amanda Baillieu - Editor

Engineered into ugliness

3 February 2012

Dixon Jones’s shared space scheme on Exhibition Road points the way to the high street’s survival

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Union Terrace

Union Terrace Gardens: ‘not so’ Critical Regionalism

7 February 2012

Can Critical Regionalism make a successful transition from New York to Aberdeen?

Limit

Limit yourself

3 February 2012

A little creativity with restricted design options can go a long way

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Temples for atheists

An imaginary secular Stations of Adolescence

A new kind of gallery

6 February 2012

The second in Alain de Botton’s series of architectural proposals that draw on the power of religious spaces - without the God bit

Massimo Scolari

Life Class: Massimo Scolari Subscription Required

6 February 2012

The Italian architect on Aldo Rossi, Peter Eisenman and his favourite project

Olympic village

Would you want to live in the London Olympic Village? Subscription Required

3 February 2012

Yes, says Alex Ely, the facilities are excellent; while George Saumarez Smith would prefer somewhere less designed

Searchlight

Shine a searchlight on your site Subscription Required

1 February 2012

Now you’ve built your website, the next step is to optimise it for users and search engines

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Crossrail is a bim pioneer Subscription Required

31 January 2012

The rail link is set to be the first UK infrastructure project to realise the bim lifecycle concept

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Noah's Arkitecture

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Dinosaur buildings

23 January 2012

From dog-shaped cafes to crocodile-shaped hotels, BD presents a survey of animal-shaped buildings from around the world.

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Glancey is designed out

3 February 2012

Guardian critic departs, music to de Botton’s ears, and we welcome our newest reader — the Queen

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