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Eisenhower Memorial shortlist announced
Frank Gehry and Moshe Safdie are among the seven architects who have made the shortlist for the competition to design the £60 million National Eisenhower Memorial in Washington DC.
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NewsAustralia’s Woodhead gets fired up for Pinnacles Interpretive Centre ritual
In a nod to traditional aboriginal ceremony, leading Australian architectural and design consultancy Woodhead has set fire to its Pinnacles Interpretive Centre in Western Australia.
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Will Alsop joins ideas 'dream team' for New York's Coney Island
New York’s Municipal Art Society (MAS) has put together a “dream team” of designers and planners to generate ideas for the redevelopment of Coney Island.
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NewsDesign Museum targets Commonwealth Institute building for new home
The Design Museum’s epic search for a larger new home is finally set to end with a new base at Kensington’s former Commonwealth Institute building.
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Blears defies Islington council to approve Squires’ City Road Estate
Communities secretary Hazel Blears has overruled a planning inspector to grant permission for a 39-storey triangular residential tower, designed by Squire & Partners, at the junction of City Road and Old Street in London.
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NewsGraeme Massie to design Scottish pavilion for 2009 Kolkata book fair
Graeme Massie Architects has won the competition to design the Scottish pavilion at the Kolkata book fair in India on January 28-February 2009, when the book fair will have a Scottish theme overall.
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NewsKPF Victoria scheme is unpleasant, says Cabe
Cabe has warned that Kohn Pederson Fox’s (KPF) masterplan for Victoria in central London will result in “spaces that are unpleasant to live and work in”.
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NewsCroydon scheme wins planning
Aros Architects has won planning permission for this £8 million office building in east Croydon, part of the borough’s Vision 2020 regeneration programme.
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Brent civic centre shortlist announced
Make, Sheppard Robson, EPR Architects, Hopkins Architects, John McAslan & Partners, BDP and TP Bennett have all been shortlisted for a landmark civic centre for Brent Council in north-west London, opposite Wembley Stadium.
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Welsh construction giant David McLean goes into administration
One of Wales’s biggest developers, David McLean Holdings, plus its subsidiaries, has gone into administration. Administrator Deloitte said that while the firm’s contracting division would close, its house-building division would be put up for sale.
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Montreal announces £16.5m planetarium competition
A two-stage competition for a C$33 million (£16.5 million) planetarium for Montreal, Canada, is to be held. The new building will replace the existing 1966 structure.
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Paul Andreu to design new arts quarter for Montreal
Paris-based architect Paul Andreu has been appointed for part of Montreal’s controversial Quartier des Spectacles (Entertainment Quarter).
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NewsBuilding skyscrapers after 9/11 (video)
Foster & Partner’s Michael Wurzel talks to Will Hurst about building skyscrapers in New York after 9/11.
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NewsRMJM wants ‘world record’ for leaning Abu Dhabi Capital Gate tower
RMJM has submitted its leaning Capital Gate tower in Abu Dhabi to the Guinness Book of Records for recognition as the world’s “most inclined tower”.
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NewsTake off at Gensler’s New York terminal
The first planes have taken off from Gensler’s Jet Blue terminal 5 at JFK Airport in New York.
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NewsMorrison anger over Waterloo towers call in
Allies & Morrison partner Graham Morrison has hit out at English Heritage after the government called-in the practice’s £1 billion Three Sisters project on London’s South Bank.
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NewsSheffield projects dominate RIBA Yorkshire awards
Sheffield buildings have won eight out of the 13 awards at this year’s RIBA Yorkshire White Rose Awards.
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NewsWilkinson Eyre to design Exeter University landmark building
Wilkinson Eyre has beaten Foreign Office Architects to design a £45 million landmark building for Exeter University.
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NewsRevamped Oslo Central Station aims to unify city
Norwegian practice Space Group competition-winning bid to redesign Oslo Central Station hopes to unify the city, which has historically been divided into East and West by two separate transport hubs.
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NewsSwedish practice launches passive house range
Young Swedish practice Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture has developed six new “passive houses”.