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    Deserting Koolhaas partner denies mutiny

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    The principal of Rem Koolhaas's New York office, who left the Office of Metropolitan Architecture on Monday taking all the office's 35 staff with him, has denied suggestions that he has fallen out with his former boss.Joshua Prince-Ramus, formerly the New York partner of Koolhaas's OMA network, has gone into ...

  • Wilkinson Eyre’s design for the redevelopment of the 1976 Museum of London was revealed this week.
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    Glazed over

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    Wilkinson Eyre's design for the redevelopment of the 1976 Museum of London was revealed this week.

  • Fielden & Mawson is lead architect on the project to refurbish the Middlesex Guildhall to create the new Supreme Court (pictured), which will act as the final court of appeal in England, Northern Ireland and Wales, separate from the House of Lords.
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    This week

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

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    One in three London architects is foreign

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    A BD survey has uncovered a staggering number of foreign architects working in London, with nationalities from all over the world flocking to the capital to gain architectural experience.

  • Trafalgar Square is no stranger to public art, but will set new standards this summer with an inflatable structure designed by Studio Egret West.
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    Dancing on air

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    Trafalgar Square is no stranger to public art, but will set new standards this summer with an inflatable structure designed by Studio Egret West.

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    Brakes on legal gravy train

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    Bespoke contracts come to an end as industry signs up to new agreements between consultants and clients

  • Ruth Kelly
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    Kelly promises action on housing and nimbys

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    ‘Increasing housing supply' tops communities secretary's agenda

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    Hadid's AF building to be two years late

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    Zaha Hadid's iconic building for the Architecture Foundation in Southwark, London, will open at least two years late, the foundation admitted this week.

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    ‘Out of touch' RIBA to survey members

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    The RIBA has announced a £70,000 survey into what architects think of it in an apparent admission that it is out of touch with members.

  • Featured in the report: Window at St Mary’s Harrogate in Yorkshire...
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    EH: Pray and pay for these buildings

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    England's houses of worship are crumbling under £118 million shortfall in repair and maintenance funding

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    Fuksas wins Mandela project

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    Massimiliano Fuksas has won one of the largest-ever RIBA competitions, for a £190 million university campus for the Nelson Mandela Institute in Abuja, Nigeria.

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    Aukett wins in Bristol and Cardiff

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    Merger is paying off, says chief

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    60K starts to look a million

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    The starter home was due for a revival, but the £60,000 house contest last August produced some mediocre results. Ten months on, though, Zoë Blackler finds design has moved up the agenda

  • Burdett will be judged on how he fills the immense space of the Corderie dell’Arsenale.
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    Burdett's big-picture gamble

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    This year's Venice Architecture Biennale will focus on urbanism rather than buildings.

  • Allen Tod Architects’ scheme to rejuvenate the Barnsley Civic
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    Spotcheck

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    This week: Yorkshire

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    RIBA library acquires C16 Roman drawings

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    The RIBA's British Architectural Library has secured one of the most significant collections of architectural drawings of the great buildings of ancient Rome.

  • The mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, has approved this 46-storey tower by RMJM.
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    Wind up

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    The mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, has approved this 46-storey tower by RMJM.

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    Edaw Cambridge scheme approved

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    Cambridge University's estate management and building service (EMBS) director has pledged to support the "highest architectural quality" after the university won permission for an Edaw-planned housing scheme through public inquiry.

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    Row over York's plan to build retail site

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    York Council is at loggerheads with conservation groups over development plans for a controversial site next to some of the city's landmark historic buildings.

  • Visualisation of Matthew Lloyd Architects’ timber-frame development of Norfolk Park in Sheffield.
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    Sheffield goes green, and red, and yellow...

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    This colourful timber-frame development proposed for a brownfield site in the run-down area of Norfolk Park, Sheffield, has been designed by Matthew Lloyd Architects.