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AHMM disputes breach claim
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris has said it will “vigorously defend” a legal claim made by Wickham van Eyck that it breached a joint venture agreement the pair struck in order to bid for a job at Amsterdam University.
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NewsConservationists fight to save iconic New York building
Conservationists have denounced plans to demolish IM Pei’s award-winning 1970 Sundrome building at New York’s JFK Airport.
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NewsZaha Hadid made Unesco Artist for Peace
Zaha Hadid has been made a Unesco Artist for Peace in honour of her work promoting ‘inter-cultural dialogue and excellence in design’.
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News3XN's new landmark building at the Vällingby Parkstad
Danish practice 3XN has won a competition to create a new landmark building at the entrance to the Vällingby Parkstad in Stockholm in Sweden.
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NewsGradon Architecture backs student project in Uganda
A fledgling architectural practice in Tyne & Wear and 12 students from Newcastle University have joined forces to help build a children’s village for Aids orphans in Uganda.
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NewsChipperfield takes heritage prize
David Chipperfield Architects’ Neues Museum has been awarded the Grand Prix of the European Heritage Awards 2010.
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NewsSwiss win for Taylor
Stephen Taylor Architects, in association with Swiss practice Brockmann Stierlin, has won first prize in a competition for a €8 million 5,000sq m housing project near Zurich.
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NewsGehry's mystery building for Sydney
Frank Gehry’s designs for a building to rival Sydney Opera House have been approved by the University of Technology Sydney (UTS).
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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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NewsPiercy Conner Architects’ Restello
An innovative residential block, the winner of Living Steel’s 2006 international architecture competition, has started on site in India.
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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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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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NewsNY's High Line wins environmental design award
The High Line in New York has won a D&AD Black Pencil for Environmental Design.
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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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NewsJohn Pawson’s House of Stone
John Pawson’s House of Stone has finished its run at the Salone del Mobile in Milan.The structure, a temporary installation produced in collaboration and lighting specialists KKDC, was made using recycled stone developed by the project’s other collaborator, Salvatori .“Seen from the colonnade the installation was a simple house shaped ...
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NewsZaha Hadid Maxxi museum opens in Rome
Tomorrow sees the long-awaited opening of Maxxi, Zaha Hadid’s National Museum of Twenty First Century Arts, in the Roman suburb of Flaminio.
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NewsWinner announced to build new headquarters for Japan Tobacco International
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has won an international design competition to build a new headquarters for Japan Tobacco International in Geneva.
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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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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.