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  • MJP’s Victoria Embankment scheme is featured in the show.
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    DfL exhibition looks at public realm

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    A new exhibition curated by Design for London which opened this week will attempt to engage the public in a wide-ranging debate over the development of the capital’s public realm.

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    BDP’s Victoria Square completed

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    BDP’s £160 million scheme for Victoria Square, Belfast (pictured) opened to the public on Thursday.

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    Mosque consultation begins

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    A public consultation into plans for the Abbey Mills Mosque in Newham, east London, has begun.

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    BD’s Woodman to curate pavilion

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    BD’s buildings editor Ellis Woodman (pictured) is to curate this year’s British pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

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    RMJM bashes Beijing boycotters

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    RMJM chief executive Peter Morrison has attacked global figures including Steven Spielberg for boycotting the Beijing Olympics.

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    Mipim property fair biggest ever

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    Over 28,000 delegates from 85 countries are expected to attend Mipim 2008 next week, a rise on the 26,210 who went to the event in the south of France last year.

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    Mill turns to retail

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    Lyons, Sleeman & Hoare has applied for planning to transform the five-storey, grade II listed Slingfield Mill building at Kidderminster, Worcestershire, into a department store and hotel.

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    Allies & Morrison wins Olympic media centre bid

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    Allies & Morrison has beaten Hopkins Architects and its partner Bouygues to land the £400 million media centre project for London’s 2012 Olympic Games.

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    This week

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    This week’s ups and downs:

  • Demolition work at Pimlico school in London
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    Pimlico school’s demolition begins

    2008-03-05T17:32:00Z

    Demolition has begun at Pimlico school, the brutalist landmark in Westminster which has been the centre of a long-running listing battle. The 1970 school’s swimming pool has already been bulldozed and the iconic Claverton Street entrance is shortly due to be torn down in a move campaigners claim is an ...

  • Ellis Woodman, BD’s buildings editor
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    BD buildings editor to curate UK pavilion at Venice Biennale

    2008-03-05T11:21:00Z

    The British Council has appointed BD’s buildings editor Ellis Woodman to curate this year’s British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. The exhibition will feature housing designs by five practices: Sergison Bates, Tony Fretton, de Rijke Marsh Morgan, Witherford Watson Mann and Maccreanor Lavington. Woodman said the exhibition would address the ...

  • The Putney Place development by SMC Alsop
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    Alsop brings glamour to Putney

    2008-03-05T16:24:00Z

    SMC Alsop has unveiled images of its mixed use development near East Putney station in London.

  • Lord's Cricket Ground.
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    Herzog & de Meuron among architects in running for Lord's cricket ground masterplan

    2008-03-04T14:31:00Z

    Herzog & de Meuron and HOK Sport are among the practices bidding to draw up a £200 million masterplan for Lord’s cricket ground.Operator Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) is working with the Architecture Foundation to draw up a shortlist for the work at the famous sporting ground in north London which ...

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    Prizewinners throw their weight behind Robin Hood Gardens campaign

    2008-03-04T14:30:00Z

    Gold medallists and Pritzker winners are among petition supporters

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    D’Offay calls for a Guggenheim of the North

    2008-03-03T17:56:00Z

    Art dealer Anthony D’Offay has called for a Guggenheim-style architectural landmark to house his contemporary art collection in Scotland. D’Offay sold 725 works worth £125 million to the Tate and National Galleries Scotland last week, at a fraction of their market value. The collection, arranged into 50 “artists rooms” and ...

  • Hodder Associates Clissold Leisure Centre is a potential Olympic training venue
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    Hundreds of potential Olympic training venues announced

    2008-03-03T17:03:00Z

    Stephen Hodder's Clissold Leisure Centre among those across the country bidding to host foreign teams

  • Dalby Forest Visitor Centre
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    Call for entries for Prime Minister's Better Public Building Award 2008

    2008-03-03T15:02:00Z

    Cabe has launched the Prime Minister's Better Public Building Award 2008 with a call for entries. The competition, now in its eighth year, celebrates high-quality design in public sector architecture. To be eligible, projects must have been commissioned by or on behalf of central or local government or an organisation ...

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    Allies & Morrison bags Olympic media centre

    2008-03-03T18:29:00Z

    Practice led by Bob Allies and Graham Morrison edges out Hopkins Architects for the massive 2012 project

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    RIBA launches President’s Awards for Research 2008

    2008-03-03T17:35:00Z

    RIBA has put out a call for entries for its 2008 award for architectural research. The prize, now in its third year, is divided into three categories: best PhD thesis at a RIBA-validated school; best university-based research; and best research carried out in a professional context. In 2007 the winners ...

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    Livingstone to slash energy costs on GLA buildings

    2008-02-29T14:19:00Z

    Mayor of London Ken Livingstone has launched a major new works programme that will see the Greater London Authority's public buildings retrofitted to reduce energy consumption by a quarter.Livingstone announced the project during a debate at the Ecobuild conference in London yesterday (Thursday February 28) which saw rival candidates for ...