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Zaha's Hadid Architects press release on the Abu Dhabi Performing Arts Centre
Growth-simulation processes have been used to develop spatial representations into a set of basic geometries and then superimposed with programmatic diagrams into a series of repeated cycles.
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Axis Design Collective
From Axis Design Collective's entry into the 2006 Euroclad Drawing competition, which asked entrants to "sketch a fresh look for Brighton’s West Pier"
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News Junkie: 2 and 3 June
This week: how to build a FAT sandcastle, why rooks need fag ends, what a Heteropolitan looks like and how Thatchers' Britain is making a comeback.
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PFI hospitals budget is slashed by £4 billion
Architects say work is drying up for large PFI projects
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Poland calls for its architects to return
Exodus is denting ability to deliver major projects and infrastructure
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Guy’s facade is a wrap
Work is nearly complete on this modular structure by Thomas Heatherwick beneath Guy’s Hospital tower in London.
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Urban Splash canal homes contest for Manchester
Developer Urban Splash has revealed plans for a competition to create the most architecturally diverse street in Britain.
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Lend Lease panel for Games village
Olympic village developer Lend Lease has confirmed plans to appoint a panel of around 40 practices to design parts of the village.
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Architecture boosts UK’s economic growth
The architectural profession is a leading player in the recent growth of the UK economy, the Office for National Statistics claims.
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Israel petition ‘misguided’
Architects including Will Alsop, Terry Farrell, Richard MacCormac and Ted Cullinan were wrong to attack Israeli architects for working in disputed territories, British and Israeli professionals said this week.
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Bristol seeks design experts
Bristol City Council has appealed for up to 20 expert advisers to serve on its new urban design forum. Supported by the council’s urban design team, it will review major schemes and provide independent advice on design quality.
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South Yorkshire museum opens
Grade I listed Cusworth Hall in Doncaster has reopened to the public following the £7 million restoration by historic building specialist Purcell Miller Tritton.
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DCLG says local service is failing
Only 54% of the population is satisfied with local council services, a survey by the DCLG has revealed.
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Liverpool to get green OAP home
McHugh Stoppard Architecture has received planning consent for this sustainable old people’s care home in Liverpool.
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Refurbished Festival Hall rejects claim of ‘vandalism’
Allies & Morrison was forced to defend its £111 million Royal Festival Hall refurbishment at its official unveiling this week.
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SOM Docklands towers go ahead
SOM has been granted detailed planning permission for a twin-tower, 4,900sq m mixed-use development in London’s Docklands.
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Bruce-Lockhart to chair EH
Sandy Bruce-Lockhart (pictured) has been appointed chair of English Heritage.
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RSHP wins British Museum centre
Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners has been appointed to design a conservation centre and temporary exhibition space and at the British Museum in London.
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RIBA partners BBC on new series
A drive to improve public access to the RIBA’s archive is to be boosted by a major new BBC TV programme, How We Built Britain, to be presented by David Dimbleby and screened on BBC1 from this Sunday, June 3.