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NewsFarewell to an anachronism
Built on the cheap, and never meant to last, the Commonwealth Institute's time is up
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Sheffield Civic Trust will champion modern design
The newly formed Sheffield Civic Trust has pledged to fight for good contemporary design in the city. Launched on Monday, the trust says it does not want to act solely as a conservation body.
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NewsFresh brew
This dramatic conversion of a 1940s tea and coffee factory in south-east London has just won planning.
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NewsOff the wall
Images of IM Pei's Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg, which will open on July 1 in time for Luxembourg's Capital of Culture celebrations in 2007, were unveiled this week.
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Line of Site appoints high-calibre judges
Judges for all three sections of the Line of Site competition have been appointed, as its first brief reaches its midway point.
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NewsAlsop looks to reunite Toronto districts
SMC Alsop's Toronto office has revealed images of this arresting new residential development, due to become Will Alsop's second built project in the city.
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Green light likely for Cameron's turbine
Conservative leader David Cameron is set to get the green light to install a wind turbine on the roof of his home in Kensington & Chelsea, one of the UK's most conservationist boroughs.
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Academies shortlist
Practices including SMC Alsop, Penoyre & Prasad and Feilden Clegg Bradley are on the shortlist to design 40 city academies and 50 other schools.
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NewsBright future
A new exhibition, Future City: Experiment in Architecture and Utopia in Architecture 1956-2006, opens at the Barbican Art Gallery in London this week.
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NewsScene change
The Royal Shakespeare Company's plan to create "the best theatre for Shakespeare in the world" at Stratford-upon-Avon has moved a step closer as the design for the new theatre is unveiled.
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AF stands firm in face of Glory Hole critics
The Architecture Foundation has robustly defended Glory Hole, its forthcoming art exhibition on architecture and gay sex.
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NewsThe good shepherds
Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano proved themselves the good guys of architecture this week, stepping in to save the London Architecture Biennale's opening event following the 11th- hour withdrawal of Norman Foster.
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Animal rights activists threaten Biennale sheepdrive
Animal rights activists have threatened to disrupt the start of the London Architecture Biennale tomorrow (Saturday) because it involves 50 sheep being herded across the Millennium Bridge.
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Pick of the day, Friday June 16: Paul Monaghan on Big London Brainstorm
Paul Monaghan, director of Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, chooses the Big London Brainstorm exhibition as his pick of the day's events
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NewsBiennale bites: Sheepdrive pulls the crowds
Good shepherds Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano herd 30 herdwick sheep across the Millennium Bridge
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NewsReview: Big London Brainstorm
Graham Bizley discovers the biennale's headline exhibition is a jumble of silly but great ideas about how to improve our capital
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Pick of the day, Sunday June 18: David Morley on the Cool Wall contest
David Morley chooses the 100% Detail Cool Wall contest
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NewsBiennale bites: Renzo at Southwark Cathedral, sheep, sermons, pimps and prostitutes
Fans stage a pitch invasion during biennale keynote address on Friday night