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NewsBeckett insists Thames Gateway remains on track (video)
The development of the Thames Gateway will not fall behind schedule because of the impending recession, housing minister Margaret Beckett has insisted.
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Architects warned Middle East is not work 'utopia'
The Middle East is not a “utopia” of work opportunities, architects were warned at the first of RIBA London's world cities debates.
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NewsZaha's flower sculpture goes to New York
A series of sculptures designed by Zaha Hadid are currently on display in New York including a version of her Kloris sculpture which is part of a permanent exhibition in Derbyshire.
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NewsEllis Woodman on I.M. Pei's Museum of Islamic Art
BD’s buildings editor Ellis Woodman visits I.M. Pei’s new Museum of Islamic Art in Doha and suggests the handsome building offers a clear rebuke to flamboyant architecture elsewhere in the Gulf.
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NewsStudio Seilern’s Forrester house
Work has begun on Christina Seilern’s first commission since her departure from Rafael Viñoly Architects.
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RIBA president welcomes government's recession measures
RIBA president Sunand Prasad has welcomed yesterday's pre-budget report by chancellor Alistair Darling, which the government claims will avert the worst consequences of the recession. Key pledges include bringing forward £3 billion of public capital expenditure from 2010/11 to 2009/10 for schools, housing and transport, cutting VAT from 17.5% to ...
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Gareth Hoskins Architects wins Hadrian’s Wall competition
Gareth Hoskins has won the controversial competition to design a major new visitor centre at Hadrian’s Wall.
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NewsBrit architecture grads rack up win for New York bike park
An entry by British architecture graduates Anthony Lau and Jessica Lee has been selected as a joint winner of New York’s City Racks international design competition to create a bike park, alongside that of US practice RSVP Studio.
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NewsI.M. Pei's Qatar Museum of Islamic Art
I.M. Pei’s Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar is to open to the public on Monday December 1st.
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NewsIngenhoven Architects wins International Criminal Court competition
Düsseldorf-based practice Ingenhoven Architects has won first prize in a competition to design a new permanent home for the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague, plus a cash award of €60,000.
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NewsMoh Architects wins RIBA contest for Urban Splash’s Walsall waterfront regeneration
Vienna-based Moh Architects has won the RIBA competition to design a new waterfront project in Walsall for Urban Splash.
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NewsFoster's Russian schemes in question as developer runs into trouble
Three of Foster & Partner’s major Russian projects are under threat after a series of economic blows hit Shalva Chigirinsky, the property magnate behind all three schemes.
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Cabe urges Oxford University to ditch Vinoly's masterplan for Radcliffe Infirmary scheme
Cabe has laid into a new framework document for a site at Oxford University developed from a previous masterplan by Rafael Viñoly Architects.
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Killian Pretty review calls for streamlining of planning system
The government's latest planning review, published today, has called for an overhaul of the system to save up to £300 million and reduce red tape.
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Chipperfield awarded Cubo d’Oro
David Chipperfield has been awarded the prestigious Cubo d’Oro prize.
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NewsMetropolitan Workshop's Tripoli Museum of Conflict
Metropolitan Workshop has unveiled the first images of its competition-winning design for the Museum of Conflict in Tripoli, which will tell the story of Libya’s military history.
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NewsCounterterrorism competition blasted
Gough asks students to boycott contest that ‘propogates paranoia’
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NewsUK firms on shortlist for 2012 venue conversions
British architects including Lifschutz Davidson Sandlilands, Flacq, Hawkins Brown and David Morley Architects have made it onto a shortlist for one of the last major slices of 2012 Olympic work — a contract worth £350 million to convert existing venues.
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NewsArchitects strike out over New Forest rejections
Architects exasperated at the “draconian” planning policies of the New Forest Park Authority have set up their own mock design review panel in protest over plans to further tighten development control rules.
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NewsPawson’s sunken storey stays in keeping with Battersea skyline
Terry Pawson Architects has submitted this “low-key” three-home scheme in Battersea, south-west London, for planning.