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NewsChipperfield and MVRDV on New Holland Island shortlist
Winner for prestigious St Petersburg competition will be announced after public exhibition this summer
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NewsRogers Stirk Harbour offsets slump with overseas work
Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners has made up for a major drop in British work by expanding overseas, its latest accounts reveal
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NewsPlanning decisions within a year, promises Shapps
Housing minister Grant Shapps has announced a 12-month time limit for decisions on planning applications.
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NewsRIBA Regent Street Windows Project 2011
Now in its second year, the RIBA-run initiative features 10 architect-designed shop windows with practices including Hut, Glowacka Rennie, DSDHA, Duggan Morris, Marks Barfield and Ian McChesney
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NewsPeter Bishop joins Allies & Morrison Urban Practitioners
Former London Development Agency design director Peter Bishop has been made a director of Allies & Morrison Urban Practitioners, the new firm formed this month by the long-time collaborators.Bishop has worked with both firms in the past.As head of planning at Hammersmith & Fulham Council and then Camden, Bishop worked ...
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NewsRobin Partington plans for Swindon submitted
Robin Partington Architects’ plans for the redevelopment of Swindon town centre have been submitted to the council for approval
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NewsZogolovitch launches mews housing scheme in south-east London
Developer Roger Zogolovitch has announced his latest project, a private mews of three detached, contemporary houses designed by local practice MW Architects in south-east London.It is the third project by Solidspace, the developer led by Zogolovitch and his son Gus.Its first, One Centaur Street, designed by dRMM, won the RIBA ...
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News3XN's skyline-changing Copenhagen hotel opens
Scandinavia’s largest hotel, designed by Danish practice 3XN, has opened in Copenhagen.The 814-room Bella Sky Hotel was designed to create a distinctive new profile on the city’s skyline.To maximise views from the hotel, its two 76.5m towers lean out 15 degrees in each direction - 11 degrees more than the ...
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NewsIngenhoven Architects to design Google's new California HQ
Google has appointed German practice Ingenhoven Architects to design new sustainable offices next to its existing “Googleplex” in Mountain View, California.It is the first time the web giant has commissioned a building, having previously moved into existing reconditioned offices.Google, which has a rapidly expanding workforce, won outline planning from Mountain ...
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NewsCity agrees air-rights deal to secure future of Viñoly's Walkie Talkie
Extraordinary planning powers will be used to protect Rafael Viñoly’s Walkie Talkie tower from possible objections
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NewsSpurs launches second Olympic stadium legal challenge
Tottenham Hotspur Football Club has launched a second judicial review attempt over its failed bid to secure a lease on the Populous-designed Olympic stadium
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NewsWiny Maas of MVRDV awarded Légion d'Honneur
Winy Maas, founding partner of Dutch practice MVRDV, has been awarded the highest French decoration for his work in France.He was presented with the Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur by the French ambassador to the Netherlands at the French residence in The Hague.As well as designing many projects in France, ...
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NewsConran & Partners to design 1 Tower Bridge interiors
Conran & Partners has been appointed as interior designer at One Tower Bridge, the controversial development designed by Squire & Partners.
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NewsFive new British embassies to be opened
The UK is to open or re-open up to five new embassies around the world as part of a major reassessment of its diplomatic priorities.El Salvador, Kyrgyzstan, Madagascar, Southern Sudan, and even Somalia if the security situation improves, will all get British embassies, foreign secretary William Hague announced today.Staffing in ...
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NewsSlowscape Collective - Shadowboxing gallery installation
A team of Royal College of Art postgraduate architecture and design students have collaborated to create a temporary installation for a two-week exhibtion
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NewsMagma Architecture reveals designs for Olympic shooting
Events will be held in temporary venue at Woolwich
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NewsTony Meadows' 10-year wait ends as Borough Market viaduct installed
The most visible section of the Borough Viaduct has been lowered into place a decade after it was designed by Tony Meadows Associates
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NewsArchitect bids to protect Bristol's Kings Weston House
An architect has formed a community group to try and protect the grade I listed building and find its missing statue
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Scott Brownrigg wins KPMG work in Leeds
Scott Brownrigg has won the contract to design KPMG’s headquarters in Leeds, replacing Ian Simpson Architects’ plans for a pair of “kissing towers” on the same site.