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Gehry’s Brighton scheme awaits approval as rival design emerges
Frank Gehry’s scheme for the King Alfred site in Brighton has begun the new year with more controversy as the council’s decision date for the planning application — December 21 — was over-run and a rival proposal emerged.
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NewsAssembly point
Cardiff and Swansea-based architect Powell Dobson has won the design contract for new offices for the Welsh Assembly Government in Aberystwyth, west Wales.
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Whos got the power?
Who are the most powerful figures in British architecture? We offer our definitive list of the 50 people you need in your contacts book this year, as chosen by our expert jury.
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NewsThe architecture market in the Middle East
A dependence on the black stuff has been a critical factor in the demand for development in the Middle East. The region, keen to wean itself off its 30-year crude oil habit, has thrown itself into a development programme to diversify its economy that has left the rest of the ...
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NewsArchitecture opportunities in India
After half a century of economic self-sufficiency, India is simultaneously absorbing the major global waves of the 20th century: IT/outsourcing from the 1990s, capital markets from the 1980s, electronics from the 1960s, highways from the 1940s.
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NewsThe cost of going global
Top architects’ green credentials in doubt as their international flights create huge quantities of carbon
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NewsFarrell races proteges for MOD super-site
Terry Farrell is facing competition from no less than three of his former proteges in the race to masterplan what is thought to be the most valuable site in Britain.
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NewsNext generation’s big break
Young architects urged to grab commercial opportunity offered by Architecture Foundation competition
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NewsHow to make an entrance
Off the top of my head, I can think of a dozen cultural organisations that have reconfigured the entrances to their buildings in recent years.
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NewsLloyd’s and listing lobby choose to collaborate
The Twentieth Century Society has put on hold its controversial plan to apply for the spot-listing of the Lloyd’s of London headquarters after meeting the building’s managers this week.
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NewsMather Liverpool academy hit by science park row
A flagship building for Liverpool’s year as European Capital of Culture in 2008 is at the centre of a furious row between architect Rick Mather and local developers.
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NewsSave may fight Supreme Court proposal
Feilden & Mawson’s planned conversion of the grade II* listed Middlesex Guildhall on Parliament Square could face a legal challenge from Save Britain’s Heritage.
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NewsRegaining the summit
Knocking HOK from last year’s number one spot, Japanese firm Nikken Sekkei has taken back its position at the top of the BD World Architecture list again this year.
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NewsSix of the best in the pipeline
During 2007 many world-class projects will pass through key stages. Here are six projects from around the globe that can be described only in terms of hyperbole
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NewsFull speed ahead
The global demand for architecture services appears to be accelerating, and there are plenty of opportunities for practices to establish themselves internationally. We asked specialist writers to assess the opportunities in five key battlegrounds— India, Europe, China, the Middle East and the United States
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NewsGlobal regions
For the top architectural firms in each global region ranked by income see tables attached.
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NewsTough new rules for carbon neutral homes by 2016
All new homes will be zero carbon by 2016, communities secretary Ruth Kelly confirmed this week as she unveiled a range of tough new measures including the six-star Code for Sustainable Homes which will become mandatory for all new housing in 2008.
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Jowell: Olympic design has role to inspire
Culture minister Tessa Jowell has said the Olympic Development Authority must “ensure design is as much of a pre-occupation as cost control” as it procures buildings for the 2012 games.
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NewsBold as brass
NBBJ Architects has won planning permission from Tower Hamlets council for this £28 million Biosciences Innovation Centre in Whitechapel for Queen Mary College London, the London Development Agency and the Department for Communities & Local Government.