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NewsEH delays Robin Hood Gardens decision following BD campaign
English Heritage will delay making its recommendation on the future of Robin Hood Gardens thanks to the phenomenal response to BD's two-week-long campaign to have the Smithsons-designed estate listed.BD editor Amanda Baillieu handed the petition, containing more than 1,000 signatures, to English Heritage director of planning and development Steve Bee ...
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NewsFormer BD editor Martin Pawley dies
Former BD editor Martin Pawley has died after a long illness. The author, journalist and architectural critic, who edited Building Design from 1981 to 1983, died on Sunday less than two weeks before his 70th birthday.Peter Murray, who first worked as a journalist with Pawley in 1971 on Architectural Design, ...
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NewsFoster's unveils Abu Dhabi World Trade Centre
Foster & Partners' latest Middle East project, the Abu Dhabi World Trade Centre, has been unveiled at the Mipim property fair in Cannes.Part of a new waterfront city, the scheme will be the main building at Al Raha Beach, creating a peninsula at the eastern end of the semi-circular marina.The ...
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NewsFat wins competition to design Walsall library
Fat has triumphed in an RIBA competition to design a new community library facility in Walsall. The firm beat 72 international practices including Aaron Evans, Featherstone Associates, McMorran & Gatehouse Architects, Panter Hudspith and Sjolander da Cruz Architects to win the commission for the Bentley area of the town. Sean ...
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NewsMK architects’ department scandal could see it axed
One of the last in-house council architects’ departments in the country is facing closure amid allegations of overspending and incompetence.
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NewsRogers’ ship comes in at Ching Fu
Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners has completed a building for the Ching Fu ship-building company in Taiwan.
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NewsPressure on Hodge to rethink listing stance
Architecture minister faces near-unanimous opposition to proposals
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NewsTories want architects to design jails
Architects could be asked to design new jails worth hundreds of millions of pounds under Conservative Party proposals for a radical restructuring of the prison estate.
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NewsRobin Hood report kept from public
A crucial report on the future of Robin Hood Gardens paid for by taxpayers was withheld from BD by Tower Hamlets Council this week.
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NewsDemolition of Pimlico School begins
Demolition has begun at Pimlico School, the brutalist landmark in Westminster which has been the centre of a long-running listing battle.
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NewsHerzog & de Meuron in running for Lord’s plan
Herzog & de Meuron and HOK Sport are among the practices bidding to draw up a £200 million masterplan for Lord’s cricket ground.
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NewsDLA Architecture sets the stage for Leeds University school
DLA Architecture has completed work on its £3.3 million Stage@Leeds building for Leeds University School of Performance & Cultural Industries.
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NewsLondon Met unit makes shortlist for Korean city
A British-based architectural team has been shortlisted in a contest to design a new city one quarter of the size of Greater London.
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NewsLessons in timber
Meadowcroft Griffin Architects has submitted this design, for the £8 million Lauriston Primary School in Hackney, east London, for planning.
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Massive regeneration for Big City Brum
Urban Initiatives has launched its vision to transform Birmingham city centre in a £10 billion, 800ha regeneration programme.
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Pear trees for Harley Street
Trees are to be planted on London’s Harley Street for the first time in its 300-year history.
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NewsHopkins returns to Bryanston
Hopkins Architects has been commissioned to design a music building for Bryanston School, Dorset.
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Cabe and RIBA invite entries
Cabe is inviting entries for the 2008 prime minister’s better public building award.
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NewsDSP puts art at school’s heart
DSP Architects has completed an extension to King James’s School at Knaresborough, Yorkshire, which builds over a non-load-bearing flat roof.
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NewsDesign for London needs reform, says Paddick
Mayoral candidate dismisses organisation as a ‘talking shop’