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NewsStephen Holl Architects wins Copenhagen gateway contest
US-based practice Steven Holl Architects has won an international competition for a gateway tower development for Copenhagen harbour, called the LM Project.
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Five shortlisted for flood-proof house
Five practices have been shortlisted in the RIBA competition to design a flood-proof house.
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NewsObama, architect of change, wins
While Democrats celebrate a momentous victory in the US, we review Barack Obama’s urban policies and hear how American architects are reacting.
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Nightingale closes its Bristol and Exeter offices
Nightingale Associates is to shut offices in Bristol and Exeter in a move that could see up to 17 staff members leave the company.
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NewsHerzog & de Meuron Tenerife Arts Space officially opens
Herzog & de Meuron's Tenerife Arts Space (TEA) has been inaugurated in Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands.
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NewsCash shortfall could close Lighthouse architecture centre
The Lighthouse, Scotland’s architecture and design centre, could face imminent closure unless Glasgow City Council agrees a financial rescue package later this month.
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Government may drop heritage bill to tackle credit crunch
The heritage protection bill may be axed from next year’s parliamentary programme to make way for legislation to help beat the credit crunch, culture minister Andy Burnham has signalled.
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NewsKyo Sung Woo’s graduate housing opens at Harvard
US-based architect Kyu Sung Woo’s graduate housing complex, 10 Akron Street, for Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has opened.
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NewsMVRDV and Adept win contest for Copenhagen tower
Dutch practice MVRDV and Danish architect Adept have won a competition to design a 116m-high skyscraper in Copenhagen.
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NewsTrump wins go-ahead for £1bn Scottish golf resort
The Scottish government has granted Donald Trump permission to build his controversial £1 billion golf resort at Balmedie, Aberdeenshire.
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NewsMuseum pretty in pink after guerrilla architect strikes
Painting the town… pink? A former Architect Association student and “guerrilla architect” has struck at the Foire Internationale D’art Contemporaine in Paris.
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NewsVan Egaraat wins competition to design Budapest City Hall
Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat has won an international competition to design a new City Hall in Budapest, Hungary.
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NewsHistoric Berlin airport closes
The last planes have taken off from Berlin’s Tempelhof airport, after a referendum to save the airport failed to attract enough support.
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NewsBerkeley Group chief blasts ‘secretive’ Cabe
Pidgley accuses architectural establishment of trying to control projects
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NewsParliament tents must go, say MP and architects
Architects have backed MP Andrew MacKinlay’s move to get rid of a set of semi-permanent marquees which he says have become a “blot” on the private terraces of the Houses of Parliament.
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NewsPrasad and Adam in conference clash
RIBA president Sunand Prasad has hit out at classicist Robert Adam for “fighting yesterday’s battle” after the pair sparred in the closing debate of the RIBA International Conference last weekend.
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NewsSimpson completes Manchester ‘jigsaw’
Ian Simpson Architects has unveiled plans for the transformation of a key city centre site in Manchester.
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NewsViñoly inside out
Rafael Viñoly’s first completed project in the UK, Leicester’s £61 million Curve theatre, opened to visitors this week.
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Scottish planning shakeup
The Scottish government has revealed a range of measures to speed up its planning system, in a move it calls a “fundamental shift” in its approach to planning.