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NewsReject environmentally harmful work, says engineer Mark Whitby
Leading engineer Mark Whitby has called on design professionals to boycott work from environmentally harmful clients.
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NewsHOK Sport's windmill inspired Mexican stadium
HOK Sport has released new images of its design for a "spinning" sports stadium in Monterrey, Mexico.
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NewsJørn Utzon: 1918-2008
Tributes were paid from both ends of the globe this week to Jørn Utzon, the legendary Danish architect who has died at the age of 90.
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NewsMcDowell & Benedetti wins RIBA contest for JCB factory site
London-based architect McDowell & Benedetti has beaten Glenn Howells Architects in the final stage of a competition to redesign a 9ha factory site in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire.
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NewsPiano completes Chicago Art Institute extension
Ambitious project will ‘levitate’, says designer
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NewsPatel Taylor and Kinnear Landscape Architects shortlisted for Libeskind’s Imperial War Museum North exterior spaces
UK practices Patel Taylor and Kinnear Landscape Architects have made it onto the shortlist for an RIBA international competition to develop proposals for the external spaces at Manchester’s Imperial War Museum North.
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NewsReid Jubb Brown’s Northumberland Lake House goes for planning
Reid Jubb Brown has unveiled plans for Lake House, a country house near Morpeth in Northumberland, which will have a curved outer shell made from green oak.
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NewsSydney Opera architect Jørn Utzon dies
Jørn Utzon, the Danish architect who designed the iconic Sydney Opera House, has died.
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NewsMake slashes workforce and closes Edinburgh office
Make architects has cut its headcount from 130 to 100 and has closed its Edinburgh office.
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NewsMore construction jobs cut in Dubai
One of Dubai's biggest developers Nakheel has announced 500 job losses after revealing that a number of its projects have been put on hold.
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NewsWeymouth's sailing academy is first 2012 venue completed
Work has been completed on the first venue for the 2012 Olympic games at the Weymouth & Portland National Sailing Academy (WPNSA).
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NewsLondon’s 11.04 to build Nigeria charity HQ in Rivers State
London-based practice 11.04 has won the go-ahead to build the headquarters of a new charitable foundation in Nigeria after helping to raise £5 million for the project at a single fundraising event.
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BSF blasted as a ‘wasted opportunity’
Too little emphasis on design lets down new schools, says survey
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NewsBack the borough architect
Planning departments can now refuse schemes for poor design quality, but lack the skills to do so
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NewsRavensbourne sets a pattern
Construction work has begun on Foreign Office Architects’ £50 million Ravensbourne College of Design & Commun-ication, on the Greenwich peninsula in London.
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New homes agency ‘will squeeze Cabe’
Super-quango to establish its own regional network of design champions
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NewsWe won’t bail out The Public, says council
Sandwell Council and Arts Council England are in crisis talks over the future of Will Alsop’s The Public, which has yet to open its flagship interactive gallery to a single paying visitor.
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NewsFootball club pavilion is on the ball
Spacelab’s £700,000 design for a junior football club pavilion in north-west London has been granted planning permission.
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RIBA wants bigger VAT cut for repairs
The RIBA has welcomed this week’s pre-budget report by chancellor of the exchequer Alistair Darling, which the government claims will avert the worst consequences of the recession.