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NewsRIBA announces shortlists for three annual awards
Contenders for Manser Medal, Stephen Lawrence Prize and Client of the Year revealed
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NewsZM Architects crafts Mackintosh pavilion plan
Glasgow-based ZM Architects have designed a park pavilion in the grounds of Mackintosh’s House for an Art Lover.
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NewsArchitecture book company Amwell to close
Specialist London architecture bookshop the Amwell Book Company is closing its doors at the beginning of next month
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NewsCity stands firm over rights of light threat to Apple store
Corporation intervenes again to prevent rights of light challenges scuppering Michael Aukkett scheme
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NewsZaha Hadid rescues 20% of jobs in restructuring
Practice axes 76 staff but spares 19 others following new wins
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NewsConcerns raised over Olympic Legacy design quality
Place-shaping will be key challenge, say planners
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NewsDuggan Morris Architects' reveals east London scheme
Duggan Morris Architects’ plans to expand a Georgian building in east London are set to be recommended for approval by planners at Hackney Council.The project would create 1,858sq m of commercial space on 141-145 Curtain Road in Shoreditch. An existing three-storey brick building will be retained, crowned by a three-storey ...
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NewsKapoor and Isozaki create mobile concert hall
Project will tour earthquake-damaged Japan with artistic performances
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NewsLevete's plans in doubt as News International puts Wapping up for sale
Amanda Levete Architects’ designs for the redevelopment of News International’s Wapping site look likely to be scrapped after the media giant put its East London headquarters up for sale.Rupert Murdoch’s UK publishing arm wrote to staff today announcing that the decision had been taken after a review of the company’s ...
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NewsFormer RMJM director joins Pringle Brandon Drew
The former operations director of RMJM, Miriam White, has joined Pringle Brandon Drew as director. White, who left the Scottish practice earlier this summer, will work alongside John Drew, managing partner at Pringle Brandon Drew. The pair worked together on the £282 million Bishops Square project while employed at Foster ...
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NewsLiverpool's A2 Architects calls in administrator
Liverpool practice A2 Architects is to carry on trading despite going into administration. The firm, which was set up in 1995, has been hit by a string of bad debts in the past three years which have topped more than £500,000 following the collapse of a number ofproperty firms. Last ...
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NewsMailen Design wins planning for green-belt nursery
Architect Mailen Design has obtained planning permission for a children’s nursery located in Northumberland’s green belt.The £400,000 project, which was developed together with creative agency GrafikM, will see the conversion of an existing stone farmhouse and the design of a new single-storey building on the site of the old stable ...
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NewsOsborne and Pickles pledge to press on with planning changes
George Osborne and Eric Pickles have launched a spirited defence of the government’s proposed planning reforms, amid mounting criticism from countryside campaigners and growing speculation that a U-turn over the policy could be imminent.In a strongly-worded article in the Financial Times (FT) today, the chancellor and the communities secretary wrote: ...
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NewsGrimshaw unveils Manhattan project
Grimshaw Architects has revealed designs for two Manhattan city “superblocks” as part of New York University’s city-wide development programme.
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NewsBDP wins two major projects in China
BDP has won two major projects in Suzhou, China via its Shanghai studio.The largest of the two projects is the Suzhou Dushu Lake masterplan. This will involve designing a retail and residential development with high-rise office and ground-level commercial uses including 3,000 homes, 135,000sq m of offices and two 220-bed ...
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NewsBaca wins funding to research flood-proof buildings
Aecom and Penoyre & Prasad also backed by climate-change design initiative
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NewsVan Heyningen & Haward's bird hide opens in Essex
A bird hide designed by Van Heyningen & Haward for the RSPB has officially opened at Rainham Marshes in Essex.The hide, built entirely of timber, including timber piles, is the second building the practice has built for the RSPB following the 2006-completed environment and education centre.Project partner Chris Wilderspin said: ...
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NewsVinoly on board for Park Avenue tower
Property investor CIM Group and developer Harry Macklowe have confirmed that Rafael Viñoly has been hired to draw up plans for a 70-storey tower in New York.