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NewsMurray and Dunlop scoop Glasgow hotel
Gordon Murray & Alan Dunlop Architects has beaten Make and RMJM to land a high-rise, five-star hotel commission for a riverside site in central Glasgow’s new financial services district.
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NewsForeign Office redevelops Toulouse's Aerospace Valley
Foreign Office Architects, in a joint venture with developer Altarea-Cogedim, has seen off competition from OMA and Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners for this £450 million, 40ha, mixed-use project in Toulouse’s Aerospace Valley.
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Savaged Stratford scheme approved
A controversial Stock Woolstencroft scheme in Stratford, east London, has finally won planning permission despite being slammed twice by Cabe for being a potential blot on the Olympic landscape.
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NewsProuvé of the pudding
This flat-pack “maison tropicale” by French architect Jean Prouvé, who died in 1984, has been rebuilt in front of the Tate Modern on London’s South Bank.
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Edaw nets Coney Island redesign
Edaw has triumphed in a competition to redesign Steeplechase Plaza at Coney Island, New York.
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Slump in client building enquiries
Client enquiries for all types of building work have fallen to the lowest levels since 2005, according to the Federation of Master Builders.
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NewsBovis’s King goes to Candy & Candy
Former Bovis Lend Lease project commercial director Rod King has joined luxury developer and interior designer Candy & Candy as commercial director.
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NewsMile End brewery site to house flats
Chris Dyson Architects has won planning permission for this four- storey residential development in a conservation area in Mile End, east London.
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NewsZaha in human rights row over Azerbaijan project
Soviet experts have criticised a cultural centre designed by Zaha Hadid Architects in memory of a former KGB chief and ruler of Azerbaijan.
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Council relaunches Birmingham library project
The race to design the troubled £193 million Birmingham Library has begun after the city council published an advertisement in the Ojeu.
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NewsArup Sport wins Singapore hub
Arup Sport has won the competition to design Singapore’s new “sports hub”, the world’s largest private-public sports project.
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Architecture schools to combine
Edinburgh’s two architecture schools are to join forces to create a “super-school”.
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DfL seeks framework tenders
Expressions of interest are being sought from architects and other professionals for a new framework panel for the mayor’s Design for London.
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NewsWorsley travel fellowship formed
The RIBA and the British School at Rome (BSR) have created a travel fellowship in memory of architectural historian and critic Giles Worsley (pictured).
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Stars rising in New York
Buildings: New York's super-rich are driving the fetishisation of architecture Profiles: The four NY practices being showcased by the AF
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Zaha in human rights row
NEWS: Zaha Hadid attacked for Azerbaijan cultural centre OPINION: Where do you draw the line on human rights?
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NewsWilkinson Eyre wins go-ahead for mixed-use towers in Southwark
Wilkinson Eyre has won planning permission for two mixed-use towers on a key site in the London Borough of Southwark. The scheme, at 20 Blackfriars Road, for client Circleplane, is for a 23-storey office tower and a 42-storey residential tower on a corner site just south of Blackfriars bridge.The base ...
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NewsScott, Wigglesworth and Gehl on winning Hull Fruit Market team
Richard Scott of Surface Architects is to lead the redevelopment a key slice of Hull's historic Fruit Market. Also on the team are Sarah Wigglesworth, urbanist Jan Gehl, Irena Bauman of Bauman Lyons, and Grimsby-based Hodson Architects.Hull-born Scott and his team will produce detailed designs for the market's “central development ...
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NewsCouncil sues over illegal work to Putney bridge
Disgraced architect Clifford Gardner could face jail after drilling holes in listed bridge