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NewsIs EH about to shine?
Architects who’ve watched English Heritage’s decline — from a body staffed with experts to an organisation more interested in promoting fun days out to its historic properties — may agree with Piers Gough’s view that it’s extended its remit too far. But his comments are ill timed. While EH has ...
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NewsEH fury as Gough says it’s a “bad judge” of architecture
Piers Gough denies dinner speech was provoked by EH criticism of practice’s new projects.
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NewsGovernment calls for anti-terror design
The government has called on architects to help “design out” the terrorist threat to crowded places such as shopping halls and sports stadiums.A report published by security minister Admiral Lord West today identified stations, nightclubs and theatres as the building types that will need to be designed with anti-terror measures ...
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NewsAlsop unveils vision for Croydon - images
Will Alsop has unveiled dramatic plans to transform Croydon, vowing it will not become a rerun of his failed vision for Barnsley.
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NewsBD to host world's first virtual careers fair
BD is to make history with the industry's first virtual careers fair.
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NewsAdjaye among seven shortlisted for Olympic Park’s Eton Manor site
Adjaye Associates and Stanton Williams are among seven practices shortlisted by the Olympic Development Authority for a cluster of venues in the north of the Olympic Park.Firms on the shortlist, which also includes Bennetts Associates, David Morley Architects, Opus International Consultants, S&P with Nord, and Sports Concepts, will compete to ...
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NewsRow erupts over Pollard Thomas Edward's Seven Sisters masterplan
Residents protest against demolition of Edwardian department store to make way for Pollard Thomas Edwards housing scheme.
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NewsTschumi's Blue Tower opens in New York - images
Bernard Tschumi's 17-storey Blue residential tower has opened in New York's Lower East Side.
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NewsRMJM pledges design competitions for Glasgow's Commonwealth Games
Glasgow’s successful 2014 Commonwealth Games bid will transform communities with the best in international design, according to RMJM design director Paul Stallan, whose firm conceived the Athletes’ village masterplan.The city won the right to host the games, costed at £288 million, in a face-off with Nigerian capital Abuja, in a ...
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NewsCarmody Groarke wins 7/7 memorial commission
Carmody Groarke has been selected as the 7/7 memorial designer just one week after being crowned BD’s Young Architect of the Year 2007.
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NewsExamplar eco-homes fail final build test
Two prototype houses hailed as the future for zero-carbon development have failed to meet the required construction standards, the BRE admitted this week.
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NewsStadium stresses flexibility over flair
HOK Sport’s long-awaited designs for the London 2012 Olympic stadium were unveiled this week, with a clear emphasis on functionality and flexibility rather than iconic architecture.
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NewsNetwork Rail rejects Grimshaw for its framework agreement
Network Rail turns down Grimshaw's bid for inclusion in its framework amid legal battle over "defective" design work
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NewsFunding promised for Exhibition Rd makeover
One of the most significant public space projects in London since the remodelling of Trafalgar Square looks set to go ahead with funding from Kensington & Chelsea council and the mayor of London.
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NewsClissold to reopen after four-year saga
One of the longest-running sagas in British architecture is set to conclude next month with the opening of Hodder Associates’ Clissold Leisure Centre, more than four years after it was closed for repairs.
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Study to explore violence and cities
Manchester University has announced a new study into how the design of buildings and neighbourhoods can steer cities away from violent division.
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City 'neglected' Smithfield
The City Of London has been accused of deliberately allowing Smithfield’s historic General Market building to fall into disrepair in a bid to get it replaced with KPF Architects’ controversial office development.
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News2012 Olympic stadium gets thumbs down
Readers response to HOK's Olympic stadium have been overwhelmingly negative, likening the design to a gasometer, a cheap whisky glass and a giant bottle cap
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NewsCoexistence holds charity auction for Maggie's Centres
Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid are among the architects donating items for Coexistence's charity auction in benefit of Maggie's cancer care centres
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NewsBDP wins award for Murrays’ Mills
BDP has won an award from the Georgian Group for its restoration of Murrays’ Mills at Ancoats in Manchester.