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NewsRykwert furious as his one surviving building faces demolition
Renowned architect and academic Joseph Rykwert has publicly slammed proposals by Foster & Partners to demolish his last surviving building and replace it with a “gated community” for the super rich.
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Academics study divided cities
Project seeking Belfast lessons for Israel is welcomed by campaigners
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NewsFoster even stronger as profits double...
Foster & Partners looks to be cementing its reputation as the world’s leading practice after a remarkable jump in pre-tax profits for the last financial year, to £6.3 million, more than double the previous year’s £2.5 million.
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News...but SMC admits it is set to shed staff
Up to 30 people employed within the SMC Group look set to lose their jobs, it emerged at the firm’s annual general meeting this week.
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Carbuncle cup: send us your horrors now
This year’s award for the worst buildings in the country — the Carbuncle Cup — is now calling for entries.
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NewsYoung firm nets Offley
Leading young architect 6a has scooped the top prize in a competition to transform the disused Offley Works in Lambeth, south London.
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NewsGlasgow museum costs spiral
The cost of Zaha Hadid’s flagship transport museum in Glasgow (pictured) has risen again, by £14 million, to £74 million. The initial cost was projected at £50 million, but it has risen almost 50% to date.
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Hadid drafted in at Serpentine
Hadid has also become the third architect to be involved in this year’s Serpentine pavilion after the scheme by architect Kjetil Thorsen and artist Olafur Eliasson was delayed by two weeks.
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Tall build fire rules ‘too simplistic’
The Passive Fire Protection Federation has warned that fire safety regulations for tall buildings are inadequate.
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RIBA backs flood plain innovation
Architects should design temporary homes and houses on stilts for the flood-prone Thames Gateway, a new RIBA report suggests.
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NewsBaker wins Vauxhall FOI ruling
Former Tory environment secretary Kenneth Baker (pictured) has won a freedom of information ruling that will force the DCLG to disclose advice given by civil servants to ministers on major planning decisions that are called in.
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UK buildings on global watch list
Four British buildings have been named on the World Monument Fund’s watch list of the planet’s 100 most endangered sites, alongside threatened buildings and monuments in war-torn Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Reid-3D merger secures practice spot in top 10
Reid Architecture and 3D Architects have announced that they are to merge, securing a place in the UK’s top 10 practices.
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News‘Pavilion’ housing for east London
Rivington Street Studio has received planning permission for this £2 million concrete and timber office building, the final element of its Back Church Lane scheme in London’s Tower Hamlets.
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NewsMarsh view’s low profile
LSI Architects has completed this £675,000 Norfolk Wildlife Trust visitor centre on the north Norfolk coast, featuring a double-curved, moss-covered roof.
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Aedas, HLM scoop Welsh health work
Aedas and HLM have scooped more than £200 million worth of health projects in Wales under the Designed for Life procurement system.
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NewsMartello Tower take two
Work has been completed on a boutique office building in Jersey designed by Buckley Gray Yeoman.
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NewsABS raises £70,000 in ‘fantastic’ auction
Founder of Make Architects Ken Shuttleworth has been named as the new president of the Architects’ Benevolent Society as a star-studded auction raised more than £70,000 for the organisation.
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Bid in for People’s Playground cash
Urban regeneration company ReBlackpool and LDA Design have submitted an application for £25 million of lottery funding for their People’s Playground.