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  • Dunlop (left) and Murray.
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    Murray and Dunlop scoop Glasgow hotel

    2008-01-25T00:00:00Z

    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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    Foreign Office redevelops Toulouse's Aerospace Valley

    2008-01-25T00:00:00Z

    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

    2008-01-25T00:00:00Z

    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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    Prouvé of the pudding

    2008-01-25T00:00:00Z

    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

    2008-01-25T00:00:00Z

    Edaw has triumphed in a competition to redesign Steeplechase Plaza at Coney Island, New York.

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    Slump in client building enquiries

    2008-01-25T00:00:00Z

    Client enquiries for all types of building work have fallen to the lowest levels since 2005, according to the Federation of Master Builders.

  • Rod King: commercial move
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    Bovis’s King goes to Candy & Candy

    2008-01-25T00:00:00Z

    Former Bovis Lend Lease project commercial director Rod King has joined luxury developer and interior designer Candy & Candy as commercial director.

  • Chris Dyson Architects’ distinctive cedar-clad development
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    Mile End brewery site to house flats

    2008-01-25T00:00:00Z

    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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    This week

    2008-01-25T00:00:00Z

    Up go the Venice Lido, architectural technician John Deeks and Parisian fashion show setsWhile down go the likelihood of housebuilding targets being met, the Giant’s Causeway, and Alice in Wonderland’s Llandudno home, Penform

  • Hadid’s Heydar Aliyev Cultural Centre.
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    Zaha in human rights row over Azerbaijan project

    2008-01-25T00:00:00Z

    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

    2008-01-25T00:00:00Z

    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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    Arup Sport wins Singapore hub

    2008-01-25T00:00:00Z

    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

    2008-01-25T00:00:00Z

    Edinburgh’s two architecture schools are to join forces to create a “super-school”.

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    DfL seeks framework tenders

    2008-01-25T00:00:00Z

    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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    Worsley travel fellowship formed

    2008-01-25T00:00:00Z

    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

    2008-01-25T00:00:00Z

    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

    2008-01-25T00:00:00Z

    NEWS: Zaha Hadid attacked for Azerbaijan cultural centre OPINION: Where do you draw the line on human rights?

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    Wilkinson Eyre wins go-ahead for mixed-use towers in Southwark

    2008-01-24T12:58:00Z

    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 ...

  • Surface, Sarah Wigglesworth and Jan Gehl are in the team planning an "exciting rejuvenation" of the Fruit Market area.
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    Scott, Wigglesworth and Gehl on winning Hull Fruit Market team

    2008-01-24T12:56:00Z

    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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    Council sues over illegal work to Putney bridge

    2008-01-23T11:59:00Z

    Disgraced architect Clifford Gardner could face jail after drilling holes in listed bridge