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NewsOxford book depository is on hold again
Plans for a £29 million building for the University of Oxford by Scott Brownrigg are hanging in the balance after a council U-turn.
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NewsPrefab holiday home powers itself
This timber holiday home in Sussex has been designed by Form Architecture to generate more power than it uses via solar and wind generation.
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Art space design contest launched
RIBA London and Arts Council England have launched a competition for new arts spaces — and are inviting conceptual designs in a bid to free architects from the constraints of construction detailing and allow them to be as creative and inventive as possible.
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2008 LFA seeks events proposals
Architects are invited to submit ideas for exhibitions, installations, talks, walks, cycle rides, events, parties and more for next year’s London Festival of Architecture.
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Architecture in residence
Project from across the residential range, from an architect's own house in Belfast to high-rise living in Salford. Next month, the latest office projects go on display. Send photographs of completed projects to eknutt@cmpi.biz
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Cabe joins opposition to Birmingham's Vertiplex
NEWS: Cabe slams 200m-high Vertiplex scheme DEBATE: Is a vertiplex the right way to regenerate Birmingham? OPINION: Brummies - look before you leap
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Is bold design threatened by a booming economy?
NEWS: Contractors pull out of Aquatics bid NEWS FEATURE: As contractors pick and choose projects, will the market stifle bold design? OPINION: Contractors hold the aces
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Richard Meier retrospective opens in London
INTERVIEW: 60 seconds with Richard Meier, subject of a new London show COMPETITION: Five pairs of tickets to be won
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Kisho Kurokawa, 1934-2007
TRIBUTE: Charles Jencks talks to Zo Blackler about his legacy IN PICTURES: Kurokawa's Swansea Maggies Centre will be his only UK building FROM THE ARCHIVE: Pictures and stories from BD's archive
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NewsEnglish Heritage appeals to government for more cash
EH chairman Bruce-Lockhart challenges Purnell to be a “heritage hero” and reverse a decade of underfunding
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NewsDCMS funding boost must cover 'Cultural Olympics'
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport's funding will rise in line with inflation for the next three years, but the extra cash includes the cost of the 2012 "Cultural Olympiad", it was revealed today.The Department was told in Chancellor Alistair Darling's comprehensive spending review that its funding would increase ...
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NewsCullinan wins RIBA Gold Medal – at last
Architect Ted Cullinan has finally been awarded the RIBA Royal Gold Medal following a long campaign by his supporters. RIBA president Sunand Prasad – who has himself worked for Cullinan – made the announcement at today’s council meeting at Portland Place, citing Cullinan’s “inspirational practice”, teaching and keen awareness of ...
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Last chance to book your place at Thursday's Global Regeneration conference
UK regeneration experts are to be offered the opportunity to find out about international regeneration opportunities and showcase their work to potential customers in Asia, Russia and Eastern Europe during a groundbreaking government-organised conference. Overseas delegates drawn from China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Russia, Bulgaria, Poland and Romania will be ...
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NewsChipperfield edges it over Young Vic for Stirling victory
Haworth Tompkins’ Young Vic Theatre was pipped to the post by David Chipperfield’s Museum of Modern Literature, in Marbach am Neckar, to scoop the £20,000 Stirling Prize on Saturday night. The five members of the Stirling jury — Sunand Prasad, Tom Bloxham, Kieran Long, Louisa Hutton and Alan de Botton ...
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NewsSix winners of the RIBA special awards announced
The winners of the six RIBA special awards were also announced at the Stirling Prize ceremony on Saturday.
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NewsKoolhaas wins bdonline's Stirling poll
David Chipperfield may have won the Stirling judges' vote, but in BD's online poll it was Rem Koolhaas who you wanted to win.Koolhaas's Casa da Musica in Porto took 27.5% of the vote pushing Chipperfield's Museum of Modern Literature into second place with 23%. Glenn Howell's Savill Building in Windsor ...