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NewsQuality pledge for Olympic Park
The chief of design at the Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC) has promised that design quality will be at the heart of plans to transform the Olympic Park following the 2012 games.
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NewsGo-ahead for Southend Pier
White Arkitekter’s proposal for a cultural centre at the end of Southend Pier has secured planning permission.
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NewsIn pictures: The YAYA Shortlisting party
Judges, sponsors and young practices were out in force last night for the announcement of the YAYA shortlisting party at the Architecture Foundation
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NewsBrady backs Venturi and Scott Brown for RIBA Gold Medal
RIBA president Angela Brady has seconded a nomination for Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown to be considered for the RIBA Gold Medal 2012.The pair were nominated by Richard Pain, founder of Richard Pain Architects, who said Frank Gehry, Terry Farrell and Alison Brooks also supported the move.Pain said: “It ...
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NewsNorman Foster pays tribute to Steve Jobs, his 'friend and inspiration'
Working with Apple founder left Foster & Partners ‘wiser as architects’
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NewsWork starts on Terry Farrell's TV-am remodel
Jacobs Webber design includes “spectrum of colour fins”
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NewsHerzog & de Meuron to design new school for Oxford university
Blavatnik School of Government will open in 2015
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NewsRMJM keeps Gazprom tower job
RMJM has been told by energy giant Gazprom that it will continue to be involved in the controversial Okhta tower project near St Petersburg in Russia. The practice’s future association with the tower was thrown into doubt earlier this year when Gazprom confirmed it was talking to several different firms ...
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NewsBob Allies to lead East of England design review
Frank Duffy, David Thompson and Nicolas Ray also appointed to review panel
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NewsBritish brutalism added to list of world's threatened monuments
London’s Southbank Centre, Preston Bus Station and Birmingham Library have been added to a schedule of the world’s endangered cultural monuments.The World Monuments Fund (WMF) placed the “three outstanding modernist sites” on its 2012 World Monuments Watch list under the umbrella of “British brutalism”.The list features 67 sites in 41 ...
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NewsArchitecture Foundation launches beehive design competition
The Architecture Foundation has launched an international competition to design urban beehives.It is hoped that winning submissions will be mass-produced and installed at sites across the central London areas of Holborn, Bloomsbury and St Giles.The competition has been organised by the foundation on behalf of Inmidtown, the business improvement district ...
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NewsTory conference: Cameron backs planning changes in closing address
Prime minister says businesses are “stuck in the mud of our planning system”
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NewsPlanning application submitted for Olympic park legacy
Allies & Morrison led masterplanning design team
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NewsTory conference: Councils given extra time to prepare local plans
Planning reforms delayed to enable councils to fill gaps in local policy
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NewsZaha Hadid on Stirling win: "I wasn't expecting it at all"
2011 Stirling Prize winner speaks out about shock win
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NewsMAD finishes Mongolian museum
MAD Architects has completed its first museum building – in Ordos, Inner Mongolia.
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NewsBletchley Park restoration secures £4.6m lottery funding
Award brings Kennedy O’Callaghan’s plans one step closer
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News5th Studio to revamp Norwich tower
5th Studio has been appointed to redesign the 11-storey Westlegate building in Norwich, a 1960s tower in the city centre.The building was recently bought by a joint venture between Soho Estates and Norwich-based FW Properties.The London-based practice, which also has an office in Cambridge, was commissioned after an invited competition, ...
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NewsCharter for architectural education to be thrashed out in soapbox debate
What Now? and Zap Architecture join up to host event at RIBA