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NewsMcAslan, BDP, Feilden Clegg battle for Manchester awards
More than 50 practices have been shortlisted for the Manchester Society of Architects Design Awards.
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NewsLocal architect sticks up for condemned Norwich office block
An RIBA Award-winning Norwich architect has leapt to the defence of a condemned 1960s office block dubbed the city’s ugliest building.
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NewsGiant Berlin seesaw approved
Germany’s culture minister has approved Milla & Partners’ £8.76 million seesaw commemorating German reunification after 12 years of public debate.
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NewsGround broken on Pelli Clarke Pelli's Illinois arts centre
Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects and OWP/P have broken ground on their new Western Illinois University Performing Arts Centre.
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NewsSerie Architects - Kennedy Centre Monsoon Club
BD’s Young Architect of the Year has converted the terrace gallery at the Kennedy Centre in Washington DC into a temporary performance venue and club
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NewsRMJM could lose Gazprom Tower
RMJM’s involvement with what would be Europe’s tallest tower is in doubt after Gazprom, the energy firm building it, said it was now talking to other practices about the work.The firm won the contract for the 455m-high tower in St Petersburg in December 2006.But the plans attracted criticism from conservationists ...
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NewsConstruction worries overshadow economy's growth
Fall of 4.7% in output is the biggest for two years
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NewsArb suspends architect who 'intimidated' his clients
Michael Phillips hired heavies to recover disputed debt
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NewsNew sculpture planned for Olympic Park
Italian artist Monica Bonvicini has designed a new piece of public art due to be installed in the northern part of the Olympic Park in east London.The permanent piece will comprise three 9m-tall letters which form the word “run” and will be built on the plaza of the Handball Arena.It ...
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NewsAssociated Architects' Birmingham campus building approved
Birmingham planners have approved a new campus building for Birmingham City University by local firm Associated Architects.The scheme in the Eastside area of the city is part of a £180 million redevelopment being planned by the university, and will house its art and design departments.Running across 18,300sq m, the five-storey ...
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NewsSpab announces this year's Lethaby Scholars
The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (Spab) has announced two architects and an engineer as this year’s Lethaby Scholars – a scheme that provides six months of conservation training.The scholarship scheme, open to all building professionals and run by Spab, has been running since 1930. Past winners have ...
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NewsSatellite wins competition to design Quaker centre in Hammersmith
Satellite Architects has won a competition to design a new sustainable Quaker worship centre as part of a major mixed-use scheme in west London.The existing Friends’ Meeting House in Hammersmith will be demolished as part of controversial plans by Sheppard Robson to redevelop the area around the town hall.Satellite was ...
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NewsSaatchi & Saatchi reception - Studio Octopi
Studio Octopi has recently completed work on its second reception space for Saatchi & Saatchi
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NewsGrimshaw wins Brazilian Olympic pavilion contest
Grimshaw has won first prize in a design competition for a mobile art pavilion which will tour Brazil in the run-up to the 2016 Olympics.
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NewsHopkins in race to build Gulf outpost for top school
The firm founded by Sherborne School old boy Michael Hopkins is one of six on the shortlist to build a new Sherborne for ex-pats and locals in Qatar.
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NewsBroadway Malyan and Wilkinson Eyre shortlisted for Chinese scheme
Broadway Malyan, Wilkinson Eyre and German practice Henn Architekten have made it through the first round of public voting for a landmark development in the southern Chinese city of Haikou.
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NewsMcAdam shortlisted for Winter Olympics spin-off
McAdam Architects has been shortlisted for a £75 million mixed-use development in Sochi, the Russian host city for the 2014 Winter Olympics.The 40,000sq m Sputnik scheme will stand on sloping parkland on the Black Sea resort’s main boulevard, overlooking the marina.It features twin towers with 220 flats and a series ...
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NewsOlympics team to train at Archial venue
A new swimming and diving complex in Plymouth, designed by Archial, will be used by the Canadian diving team prior to next summer’s Olympics.Once completed, the £46 million Life Centre will feature a 50 x 25m swimming pool and a 25 x 16m diving pool along with sports halls, dance ...
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NewsBristol practice wins OK for Clevedon Pier work
Bristol practice O’Leary Goss Architects has been given planning permission to turn a derelict grade II listed hotel at Clevedon, Somerset, into apartments and to build a new visitor centre at a neighbouring pier.Grade I listed Clevedon Pier was built in 1869, with the hotel put up to cater for ...