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  • Lean green Foster machine
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    Lean Green Foster Machine

    2011-01-14T14:54:00Z

    Norman Foster’s new toy is a lean green, century ahead of its time, utopian machine.

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    Rietveld Year

    2010-07-26T15:23:36.187Z

    The Dutch can teach us a thing or two about celebrating our architects...

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    Milton Keyne's finest hour

    2010-07-21T16:20:44.123Z

    As Milton Keynes shopping centre wins listed status, we show you one of the many reasons why the building is so special.

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    Keeping records

    2010-03-08T18:20:00Z

    It is always sad when a great architect dies and their office is disbanded. Years of work including architectural drawings and sketches end up on the rubbish tip.So let's give a big cheer for the State Preservation Office and Archives of Michigan, USA, who have joined forces to save World ...

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    Calatrava justifies his budget and Holl revels in controversy

    2009-08-20T17:44:00Z

    News Junkie is back with the news round up which today features an Australian ex-Trade Union boss and Calatrava justifying the huge price tag for the World Trade Centre hub.Plus Stephen Holl enjoying controversy in Norway, the nano homes that could help solve Mumbai's chronic shortage of affordable housing and ...

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    The march of BIM and 'ghost architecture'

    2009-07-22T18:47:00Z

    While some people (News Junkie included) still value the old-fashioned architectural drawing, there's no denying BIM has some advantages and planners love it. Wisconsin is just the latest area of the world to begin demanding BIM models in the early stages of planning.Meanwhile in New York, there are signs of ...

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    An Obamy urban policy?

    2009-07-16T18:35:00Z

    It has finally happened; Obama has remembered that Urban regeneration was a key part of his pre-election policies. You can watch the video of his speech on the White House website, but cynics like News Junkie will want actions rather than words.Elsewhere, Murcutt blames fusty planning officials for lacklustre architecture ...

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    The three R's of architecture - recession, registration and regeneration

    2009-06-08T17:28:00Z

    The registration debate takes a complicated twist with a story about foreign architects working on projects in Thailand. It looks like there may be change in the law to make the relationship a bit more above board, after one Thai architect registered a complaint about Amanda Levete ArchitectsRegistration also rears ...

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    Does Rem Koolhaas really harbour a "contempt for sustainability"?

    2009-06-01T15:41:00Z

    The claws are out at Cornell University in the US, where a new campus building by OMA for the College of Architecture, Art and Planning has caused a bit of a row. The building has finally been given the green light, but not without its opponents lashing out at Rem ...

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    Top 50 practices in the US, Kaufman latest victim of recession and the Ordos prize

    2009-05-28T13:20:00Z

    It's not often that a major new international prize is launched that actually seems to be taken pretty seriously by the architectural community. And it's even rarer to hear about one from Asia. In fact the Ordos Prize is China's first international architecture prize. News junkie can't wait to see ...

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    RMJM defies the trend and Aussies get protected

    2009-04-29T15:06:00Z

    A year ago, News Junkie could name at least ten practices that were talking about opening branches in the Middle East. How times change. Now the news that RMJM has enough work to open three new offices in Qatar, Bahrain and Turkey is is almost shocking. At least we know ...

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    Which 1970s buildings would you list?

    2009-03-23T17:13:00Z

    A fun article today in the Times which points out that under the 30-year-rule a whole raft of buildings built in the 1970s will be up for listing - including Norman Foster's IBM HQ.So what would be your choice of 1970s architecture for listing?Read more at The Times