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    Cabe backs crossroads for Sloane Square

    2007-01-12T00:00:00Z

    Cabe has endorsed Stanton Williams’s plans to transform Sloane Square in Knightsbridge by replacing the gyratory with a staggered crossroads.

  • Will Alsop’s design of concept prison HMP Paterson
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    Banged up with Alsop

    2007-01-12T00:00:00Z

    Will Alsop’s Creative Prisons exhibition opens at the Architecture Foundation’s Yard Gallery on Old Street, London, on January 19.

  • Hugh Broughton Architects and Faber Maunsell design for the Indian research base for the Antartic
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    Ice age two

    2007-01-12T00:00:00Z

    Hugh Broughton Architects and Faber Maunsell have reached the final two in a competition to design an Indian research base for the Antartic. The pair’s designs are similar to those that won the RIBA competition for a UK research base.

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    Big names shortlisted to design Nicosia art gallery

    2007-01-12T00:00:00Z

    The RIBA has announced a star-studded shortlist for its competition to design an £8 million art gallery in central Cyprus.

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    US tower engineer teams up to open London office

    2007-01-12T00:00:00Z

    The engineer behind the world’s tallest building, Thornton Tomasetti, has opened a London office.

  • Swansea’s National Waterfront Museum has won the RIBA’s regeneration award.
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    Spotcheck

    2007-01-12T00:00:00Z

    This week: Wales

  • Rem Koolhaas
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    Rem demands boycott

    2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

    Koolhaas campaigns to overhaul star-studded design competitions after Gazprom HQ controversy

  • The Hpod:demonstrating healing design.
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    Hpod set to radically change hospital design

    2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

    Nightingale Associates is to put a decades’ worth of research into the healing aspects of design to the test, under a unique project also involving the Building Centre, Arup and electronics giant Philips.

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    Haringey council axes its architects

    2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

    Switch to design-and-build blamed for architect redundancies

  • John Lewis gives brick the boot.
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    Portsmouth John Lewis revised after protests

    2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

    Designs for a flagship John Lewis department store in the centre of Portsmouth have been substantially revised after earlier efforts were slammed by local architecture and civic groups.

  • Madelin: Awarded a CBE.
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    Richard Murphy receives OBE in New Year’s list

    2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

    Leading Scottish architect Richard Murphy has made a surprise appearance on the New Year’s honours list having won an OBE for services to architecture.

  • SMC Alsop propose plans for unique power station in Dongtan in China
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    China bright

    2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

    These designs by SMC Alsop are for a unique power station proposed at Dongtan in China — the world’s largest eco-city.

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    Brown will be biggest influence this year

    2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

    Chancellor Gordon Brown has topped BD’s list of the 50 public figures who will wield the greatest influence over architecture in 2007.

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    Barajas bomb blast hits Rogers’ terminal

    2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

    Richard Rogers’ Stirling Prize-winning Terminal 4 at Madrid Barajas airport sustained superficial damage in the terrorist bombing last Saturday, which authorities believe killed two men. However, most of the building was open to passengers the next day after access routes were cleared of debris.

  • Architects Design Partnership has submitted this design for a flagship building for Canterbury Christ Church University
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    Canterbury’s green wings

    2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

    Architects Design Partnership has submitted this design for a flagship building for Canterbury Christ Church University to planners.

  • Glasgow City Council has approved plans by Cooper Cromar Architects for a £100 million redevelopment to upgrade and extend St Enoch’s shopping centre
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    This Week

    2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

    This week in brief

  • The design is back on the drawing board.
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    Chipperfield’s ‘car park’ flats rejected

    2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

    David Chipperfield has been sent back to the drawing board to revise designs for his largest commission in the UK to date.

  • Elliot Lipton’s First Base to create the Heart of East Greenwich project in south-east London
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    The heart of the matter

    2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

    English Partnerships has appointed Elliot Lipton’s First Base to create the Heart of East Greenwich project in south-east London, with designs by Make.

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    BSF gathers speed as schools contracts are let

    2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

    Aedas with Balfour Beatty has been appointed to design seven new schools for Knowsley Council’s £150 million Building Schools for the Future programme.

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    Shenzhen tower, China by Farrells

    2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

    Farrells has revealed its plans for a massive mixed-use development in Shenzhen, China, after winning an international competition.