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NewsGehry takes Manhattan
This £50 million Manhattan development by Frank Gehry for the media corporation InterActiveCorp is nearing completion. The headquarters building takes the form of a 10-storey glass tower with eight sweeps of glass inspired by the sails of boats passing on the nearby Hudson River.
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NewsNext Generation Award shortlists Fobert, Featherstone and DSDHA
DSDHA, Featherstone Associates and Jamie Fobert Architects have been announced as the three shortlisted contenders for the prestigious Next Generation Award.
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Save goes to court over Guildhall conversion
Save Britain’s Heritage has followed up its threat to fight conversion plans for Middlesex Guildhall “all the way” by instigating a legal challenge.
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NewsRoom 13 for Bath’s budding artists
Bath practice Mitchell Taylor Workshop has designed a new kind of arts building which will help promote interaction between artists and children.
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DCMS to write rules for supercasino competition
The DCMS has revealed it will draw up the rules for Manchester’s supercasino competition after the city won the country’s only licence last week.
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NewsIn the pink at Yas Island
Benoy has been appointed to design one of the world’s largest mixed-use destinations, Yas Island in Abu Dhabi, for Aldar Properties.
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NewsReading regeneration
This substantial apartment scheme by Cartwright Pickard Architects, part of a £250 million regeneration project undertaken by developer Amec, starts on site at Chatham Place in Reading, Berkshire, this month.
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AHMM’s quality affordable housing is topped out
A scheme to boost the number of high-quality affordable homes in London has reached a milestone with the topping out of the first development.
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Olympic ‘year of design’ starts here
This is “the year of Olympic design,” 2012 organisers promised on Wednesday, as they submitted what is thought to be the largest planning application in British history.
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NewsBattersea plans dumped
Foster, Viñoly and SOM in running for power station, as new owner prepares to dump Arup masterplan
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Changes proposed to tall buildings policy
Tall buildings could be given outline planning consent under new guidance put out for consultation by Cabe and English Heritage.
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NewsRace on to design supercasino
Surprise winner Manchester will make Ian Simpson compete for design, despite his hand in the winning bid
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NewsGLA probes decline of London’s street trees
The Greater London Authority has launched an inquiry into the loss of street trees in London amid growing concern that they will die out, leaving the capital’s public spaces exposed to rising temperatures.
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NewsLiverpool spurns advice and backs development
Cabe not shown revised plans for Project Jennifer
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NewsStar auction for architect charity
Collectors of architectural paraphernalia will gather at the Royal Academy on June 6 for an all-star auction of architects’ drawings, models and sketches, including work by Will Alsop, Norman Foster, Massimiliano Fuksas, Marks Barfield, Richard Rogers, Rafael Viñoly and Chris Wilkinson.
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Scottish watchdog blasts ‘it’ll do’ culture
The chair of Scotland’s design watchdog has attacked the “it’ll do” culture, which he believes has led to a poor standard of development north of the border.