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    New perspective on St Petersburg

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    RMJM’s new Gazprom tower design has a public observation deck served by a dedicated lift and irregular triple-glazed windows intended to respond to St Petersburg’s cold winters and described by Kettle as a “fur coat”.

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    Gazprom woos international media over St Petersburg skyscraper

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    In the battle to win over the press, even the British consulate was drafted in

  • Victoria Transport Interchange:  “constraint” on public realm
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    Westminster wavers on transport masterplan

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    The £2 billion Victoria Transport Interchange project by architects including KPF, Wilkinson Eyre and Allies & Morrison would “severely constrain” the area’s public realm, Westminster City Council has claimed

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    Photographers Gallery captures the right image

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Celebrated Dublin architect O’Donnell & Tuomey has received planning permission for its new £16 million building for the Photographers Gallery, the UK’s national centre for the promotion of photography

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    Still no guarantee for Foundation HQ

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Developer Land Securities has warned that it will not fund Zaha Hadid’s Architecture Foundation HQ building in London unless a “viable” tender is agreed, despite the naming of a contractor

  • CZWG’s Nottingham design
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    Maggie’s Centres seek funding boost

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Cancer care charity Maggie’s has launched a new £15 million fundraising drive so it can build five new centres designed by CZWG, MJP, Wilkinson Eyre, Foreign Office Architects and the late Kisho Kurokawa

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    Tate extension nets £50m

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    The government has announced a £50 million contribution to Herzog & de Meuron’s extension at Tate Modern, which it claimed will boost Britain’s cultural offering in the run-up to the Olympics.

  • The extension will be clad in locally sourced larch
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    Devon house extension exploits the beauty of its surroundings

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Satellite Architects has received planning permission for a pool house and flat extension to a private home in Devon

  • The controversial tower is on the edge of the world heritage site
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    AD&S gives Murphy third blast

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Watchdog still unhappy with scale and vision of Edinburgh scheme

  • Flacq
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    Urban Splash shortlists six for Birnbeck Pier

    2007-12-07T18:49:00Z

    AOC, Flacq Architects and Richards Partington Architects are among the practices shortlisted for the Urban Splash/RIBA competition for Birnbeck Island and Pier in Weston-super-Mare.Also in the running are Levitate Architecture & Design Studio, MOH Architects from Vienna and Pierre d'Avoine with White Young Green Planning & Design.Urban Splash announced the ...

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    Cabe to revive seaside towns

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Cabe is to lead a £45 million scheme to regenerate run-down seaside towns

  • CGL’s winning Sandling Park
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    CGL takes Kent Design award

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Child Graddon Lewis has triumphed in the housing category of the Kent Design Awards

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    Infirmary boosts learning space

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Aedas Leeds has been appointed to produce early designs for a conference and learning centre at Bradford Royal Infirmary

  • The design for the national stadium has a lightweight moving roof
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    Arup reveals its entry for Singapore sports centre

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Arup’s sports division has unveiled its entry for the competition to design Singapore’s national stadium and sports complex

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    Six in frame for Walsall library

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Fat, Featherstone Associates and Panter Hudspith are among six practices shortlisted in an RIBA competition to design a new landmark library building in Walsall

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    Costs may shelve fencing arena

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    The London 2012 fencing arena may not be built, the ODA admitted this week

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    Sutherland Hussey’s museum gem

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Sutherland Hussey has won an international competition to build this £240 million museum for the Chinese city of Chengdu

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    BD’s Woodman is critic of the year

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    BD’s Ellis Woodman has been named architectural critic of the year at this year’s International Building Press awards

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    Think Place wins Warsaw regen

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Think Place has triumphed in an international competition to masterplan a major Warsaw regeneration project

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    Mayor’s green house goes on show

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    The Building Centre-designed “Number 1 Lower Carbon Drive” — a public exhibition in Trafalgar Square designed to showcase the mayor of London’s Green Homes initiative — has been unveiled