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NewsTonkin Liu unveils 14m-high metal flower
Tonkin Liu’s metal Future Flower sculpture has been unveiled on the banks of the River Mersey in Cheshire.
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NewsBrixton Market listed
Brixton Market, the symbolic heartland of London’s Caribbean community, has been given grade II listed status, despite its lack of architectural merit.
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NewsEric Parry's St Martin-in-the-Fields wins European Union prize
Eric Parry’s restoration of central London’s St Martin-in-the-Fields church is one of just two UK projects to be awarded a European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage.
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London property tycoon declared bankrupt
Property tycoon Simon Halabi has been declared bankrupt, it has emerged.
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Mackenzie Wheeler's floating wall wins planning
Mackenzie Wheeler has won planning for a scheme involving the addition of a floating wall to the front of a mixed-use building in Shoreditch, east London.
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HOK loses director
HOK director Richard Spencer has left the business after more than 15 years at the firm to set up his own consultancy.
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NewsCaption contest: Kapoor topples the Eiffel tower?
We’ve all seen the images of Anish Kapoor’s tower for the Olympic park, but is it just a melted Eiffel?
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NewsOMA wins Quebec museum competition
OMA has won a competition to create a 12,000sq m extension to the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec (MNBAQ).
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American profession complains of “bottleneck” in stimulus funding
The American Institute of Architects has reported a ‘modest rebound’ in architecture billings, saying that a bottleneck of stimulus funding is hampering recovery.
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NewsSuper lab brings in new architect after HOK fails to impress
The client behind a £600 million “super laboratory” has drafted in PLP — the practice formed by former partners of KPF’s London office — to overhaul the design because it is worried the original by HOK is not good enough.HOK beat Rafael Viñoly and NBBJ to design the UK Centre ...
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NewsKPF redraws Pinnacle with public viewing area
Plans for the tallest tower in the City of London are being redrawn by architect KPF and will include a three-storey viewing platform which will feature artefacts loaned by the Museum of London.
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Anger as RIBA Council fails to debate low pay
Council meeting did not discuss exploitation of students
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NewsWilkinson Eyre’s Kew centre set for green light
Wilkinson Eyre has designed a “vital” quarantine house to protect the collections at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew from disease and destruction
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Architects rush to fill Shanghai charette
The RIBA’s charette at the Shanghai Expo is already oversubscribed fourfold, just a week after it was launched
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NewsHousing designers urged to tackle TB
Architects could become part of the solution to tackling the spread of tuberculosis in Britain, a charity has claimed
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NewsTory shadow minister heaps praise on Cabe
Cabe has been given a huge vote of confidence by shadow architecture minister Ed Vaizey, who has promised it will retain direct state funding in the event of a Conservative government
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Trust agrees to Finsbury review
The board of NHS Islington, which wants to shut down the Lubetkin-designed Finsbury Health Centre in north London, has agreed to review a council report into the centre ahead of a crucial board meeting in May
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Friend raises roof at architect’s former north London house
Friend & Company has won planning permission to build an artist’s studio and rooftop garden on top of a modern London house
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NewsCube to go on despite developer’s collapse
Make expects its major mixed-use tower in Birmingham, the Cube, to be finished despite the developer going into administration last week
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NewsOffice Campus given go-ahead
Richards Partington Architects has secured planning for its Office Campus scheme, an £11 million project in Kent