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    Bold face on the waterfront

    2008-06-06T00:00:00Z

    Gordon Murray & Alan Dunlop Architects has released new images of its Bonnington Hotel scheme, an £18 million riverside development in the heart of Glasgow for client Clydeview.

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    Porphyrios wins OK for Islington

    2008-06-06T00:00:00Z

    Architects Porphyrios Associates has received planning permission for a mixed-use scheme in Islington, north London.

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    Coe sets out 179 training venues

    2008-06-06T00:00:00Z

    The London 2012 Organising Committee (Locog) has revealed the 179 sporting venues across the country which will feature in the pre-games training camp guide for paralympic sports.

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    This week's ups and downs

    2008-06-06T00:00:00Z

    Hot and Not

  • Casa Kike, Costa Rica, by Gianni Botsford Architects
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    Three shortlisted for RIBA's Lubetkin Prize

    2008-06-05T09:36:00Z

    Three architects have been shortlisted for RIBA’s Lubetkin prize for the most outstanding work of architecture outside the UK and the European Union by an RIBA member.

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    Competition launched to design public square for King's Cross station

    2008-06-05T17:00:00Z

    Camden Council and Network Rail have launched an RIBA competition to design a new public square at King’s Cross in central London.

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    Dynamic Architecture creates rotating tower for Dubai

    2008-06-05T15:20:00Z

    Italian-Israeli architect David Fisher has unveiled plans for the latest eye-popping skyscraper in Dubai – a 68-storey, rotating tower.

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    London mayor set to ditch Rogers as adviser

    2008-06-04T15:55:00Z

    London mayor Boris Johnson has indicated that Labour peer Richard Rogers is unlikely to continue as the city’s adviser on architecture and urbanism under his administration.Speaking at City Hall on Wednesday, Johnson said: “I’ll certainly be maintaining the role of an adviser on architecture or urbanism, but you’ll have to ...

  • Walter Chefitz’s jelly design
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    Architects get ready to wobble

    2008-06-04T11:19:00Z

    Architects Will Alsop, Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners and Foster & Partners lead the shortlist for the 2008 Architectural Jelly Design Competition – part of the 2008 London Festival of Architecture.

  • Looking over the lake to one of the yoo homes
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    Starck-designed second homes win planning permission

    2008-06-04T10:39:00Z

    Planning permission has been granted for the expansion of a prestigious second-home development by yoo, Philippe Starck’s housing venture with John Hitchcox, co-founder of Manhattan Loft Corporation.

  • Petition in support of the Piano scheme
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    Le Corbusier's Ronchamp chapel stirs passions online

    2008-06-03T09:28:00Z

    An online war is pitting some of the biggest names in world architecture against each other in a bid to influence the French Minister of Culture over the future of Le Corbusier’s world famous Ronchamp chapel.

  • The European Investment Bank
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    EIB takes quantum leap

    2008-06-02T15:32:00Z

    The European Union’s international financing arm, The European Investment Bank, will this week unveil its new 10-storey headquarters in Kirchberg, Luxembourg, designed by German architect Ingenhoven.

  • Cherepovets, Russia the site of the Living Steel competition
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    Living Steel shortlist announced

    2008-06-02T14:57:00Z

    British architects make up three of the 12 teams shortlisted for Living Steel’s third International Architecture Competition for Sustainable Housing.

  • Cabe’s new pylon installation in Birmingham city centre
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    Cabe pylon unveiled in Birmingham

    2008-06-02T12:44:00Z

    Cabe’s first ever commission – a 29m-high, nickel-plated pylon – has been unveiled in Birmingham.

  • ‘A centralised RIBA is not informing the membership what it does’ - Ruth Reed
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    Reed blasts RIBA with London bias jibe

    2008-05-30T00:00:00Z

    Presidential hopeful courts regions with outspoken attack on “London-centric” institute

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    This week

    2008-05-30T00:00:00Z

    This week’s ups and downs:

  • Pennington Road footbridge proposal
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    Softroom sweeps into Merseyside

    2008-05-30T00:00:00Z

    Softroom has won planning permission for its first bridge project, Pennington Road footbridge in Bootle, Merseyside.

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    BSF boosted by new design director role

    2008-05-30T00:00:00Z

    The role of design within the government’s £45 billion Building Schools for the Future programme is set to be boosted thanks to a raft of reforms including a powerful new architect role within delivery body Partnerships for Schools.

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    Towers face two-for-one inquiry fate

    2008-05-30T00:00:00Z

    The fate of two of London’s most significant tower projects will be decided together at a single public inquiry, it has emerged.

  • Marischal College
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    Aberdeen’s inside deal

    2008-05-30T00:00:00Z

    Scottish architect Holmes Partnership has submitted plans for its £80 million redevelopment of Marischal College to Aberdeen City Council.