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NewsSwiss win for Taylor
Stephen Taylor Architects, in association with Swiss practice Brockmann Stierlin, has won first prize in a competition for a €8 million 5,000sq m housing project near Zurich.
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NewsDivine inspiration
McHugh Stoppard Architecture has won planning permission to convert a former primary school in Walton, Liverpool, into for a community and business centre
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Brady comes out strongly in Q&A for presidency
The RIBA could be run by two women in succession after Angela Brady cemented her position as the frontrunner in the race to succeed Ruth Reed
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NewsChipperfield takes heritage prize
David Chipperfield Architects’ Neues Museum has been awarded the Grand Prix of the European Heritage Awards 2010.
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Hawkins Brown for Westminster
Hawkins Brown is to masterplan the redevelopment of Westminster University’s campus in north-west London.
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Rundell joins Hirst in gallery bid
Rundell Associates is working with artist Damien Hirst on a bid for a gallery to be built in Hyde Park.
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NewsGreat British garden plan for Olympic park
LDA Design and Hargreaves Associates have unveiled plans for a classic British garden – complete with sandpit and frog pondin the heart of the Olympic Park.
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NewsGood wood shortlist
A primary school, a vaulted ceiling for a cathedral and high-end penthouses are among 27 shortlisted projects in this year’s Wood Awards.
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NewsRIBA launches competition to create watery gem
The RIBA has announced the launch of an international competition to design a new drinking fountain which will be installed throughout London’s eight Royal Parks.
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NewsWalsall tree building starts on site
Work will start on site next week to create Bisset Adams’ £6.5 million office building for Walsall Housing Group.
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NewsGehry's mystery building for Sydney
Frank Gehry’s designs for a building to rival Sydney Opera House have been approved by the University of Technology Sydney (UTS).
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NewsPrime Minister’s better public building award shortlist unveiled
Rick Mather’s Ashmolean Museum, Reiach & Hall’s New Stobhill Hospital and AHMM’s Kentish Town Health Centre are among the 22 projects shortlisted for this year’s Prime Minister’s Better Public Building Award.
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NewsRetrofitting is best way to cut carbon emissions, says report
The best way to bring down carbon emissions from the built environment is to embark on a national programme of retrofitting, a major new report argues.
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NewsArchitects worse hit by recession, FT reports
Architects are still bearing the brunt of the job losses caused by the recession, the Financial Times reported today.
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NewsHats off to the architect
A pop-up exhibition of hats created by architects, artists and designers as part of the London Festival of Architecture is set to open tomorrow.
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NewsBoris seeks to scrap London Development Agency
The mayor of London has made an audacious bid to extend his powers by setting out proposals to scrap the London Development Agency and take over the functions of a range of other bodies.
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NewsLee Fitzgerald Architects refurbish bookshop at Oxford College
Lee Fitzgerald Architects has won planning permission to refurbish and adapt Gillespie Kidd & Coia’s grade II listed bookshop at Oxford University’s Wadham College.
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NewsCapita Symonds designs Roman Maryport visitor centre
Capita Symonds has won the contract to design and build a £6 million visitors’ centre at a Roman fort at Maryport in Cumbria.
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NewsTributes paid to Bill Mitchell, former architecture dean at MIT
Leading American architect Steven Holl has led tributes to Bill Mitchell, former dean of the MIT School of Architecture and BD columnist, who has died of cancer.
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NewsThe Wilberforce Health Centre
HLM’s £16 million health and well-being centre in Hull has started on site.