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Paul King to chair Think conference
UK Green Building Council chief executive promises "radical thinking on sustainability" at May event
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NewsArup Sport wins Singapore sports complex
British firm Arup Sport has been selected to design Singapore’s new ‘sports hub’, the largest sports PPP project in the world.Working with local firm DP Architects, the Arup Sport consortium beat competition from HOK Sport and former Herzog & de Meuron architect Tim Hupe to land the Premier Park job, ...
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NewsFoster's Shoreditch high rise challenged by rival scheme
Local campaigners commission Willingdale Associates in bid to preserve landmark Light Bar against Foster's Bishops's Place redevelopment
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NewsBDP joint venture wins competition to design Kiev children's hospital
BDPgroupe6, a collaboration between UK practice BDP and French practice Groupe6, has won a competition to design a 250-bed children's hospital in Kiev. The team beat six other practices to design the All Ukrainian Health Protection Centre for Mothers and Children (The Children's Hospital of the Future), after beating six ...
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NewsBdonline holds world's first virtual careers fair
Bdonline makes history this week as we host the world’s first live virtual careers fair
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NewsToday Dubai, tomorrow the Universe
From the developers that gave you “The World” - the coastal archipelago in Dubai of reclaimed islands designed to resemble the continents – comes “The Universe”.The massive waterfront project which, inevitably, draws inspiration from the heavens above, was unveiled by Dubai property giant Nakheel last week.Concept images reveal a ...
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NewsFoster's and Wilkinson Eyre battle for St Petersburg masterplan
Wilkinson Eyre and Foster & Partners will compete for a major masterplanning commission in St Petersburg after beating off strong competition from Dutch megastars Rem Koolhaas and MVRDV and fellow British firm PRP.The two practices will now go head to head to land the commission to develop plans for Apraksin ...
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NewsSix on icon shortlist
New architects for Commonwealth Institute revealed as Foster & Partners is dropped
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NewsParry finds hidden oasis
Eric Parry Architects’ newly completed 18-storey Aldermanbury Square office development features Corten steel external columns and stainless steel cladding, with a brise soleil on intermediate floors to shade its east, south and west facades.
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NewsCarmody Groarke on John Lewis shortlist
Leeds scheme would be the Young Architect of Year’s largest commission yet
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NewsHedge fund takes 73% stake in SMC
SMC Group is set to begin a round of new acquisitions after hedge fund Ironshield Special Situations Master Fund took a 73% share in the business, becoming the majority shareholder.
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NewsGehry is chosen for Serpentine Pavilion
Frank Gehry is to design this year’s Serpentine Pavilion, the gallery has revealed.
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NewsLate start squeezes UK’s biennale plans
The British Pavilion at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale will have to be arranged in great haste, the British Council has warned, following this week’s appointment of a director for the event.
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Tory homes plan slammed
Housing design experts have slammed Conservative Party proposals to enforce the so-called Merton Rule nationwide, claiming the move would compromise delivery of zero-carbon homes.
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NewsDelays mean Alsop pavilion at Headingley misses Ashes
A proposed £17 million cricket pavilion designed by Will Alsop for Headingley Carnegie cricket stadium in Leeds will not be ready for next year’s Ashes series following a series of delays and design changes.
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NewsSave 25% off Building with steel
It's a steel: Each month Riba bookshop offers BD readers 25% off a recommended title. For January, it is Building with steel: Principles, details, examples.
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NewsStirling & Gowan’s building faces demolition
Another of the country’s most significant modernist buildings, Stirling & Gowan’s Leicester University engineering laboratory, could be partially demolished, the university signalled this week.
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Atkins fights St James’s overhaul
Atkins has attacked development plans for the St James’s area of central London as inappropriate, claiming the area is “in danger of losing its identity”.
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NewsChetwoods revises Hull scheme
The first phase of a mixed-use development in Hull by Chetwoods has been granted planning after the architect submitted revised proposals.
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Burns museum delayed to 2010
The Robert Burns International Museum, by Edinburgh firm Simpson & Brown, will not be ready by 2009, the 250th anniversary of the poet’s birth, because of funding delays.