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NewsGoldfinger residents draw up masterplan
Residents of a west London estate designed by Erno Goldfinger have commissioned their own masterplan for the site as part of a campaign against a council demolition threat.
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NewsOnly five commit to waste reduction push
Only five architectural practices have signed up to a national campaign to reduce construction waste.
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Norman Foster establishes Yale professorship in his name
FOA's Zaera-Polo to be the first Norman R Foster visiting professor at the American university
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RIBA 2010 fellowships unveiled
Robbrecht & Daem, Alejandro Aravena and AA director Brett Steele will be among the recipients of the RIBA fellowships next year.
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NewsWaterfront plan boosted
A £5.5 billion masterplan by Chapman Taylor Architects to transform Liverpool’s waterfront over the next half century has received a huge boost from city council planners.
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Cabe creates network of design panels
Cabe is to share its services with eight regional affiliates to create a national network of design review panels.
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NewsDixon Jones' project crowned King
Dixon Jones’ Kings Place development (pictured), home of the Guardian newspaper, has been named the best office building of the year by the British Council for Offices.
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NewsLondon tower blocks at ‘high risk’ of fire
More than 100 social housing tower blocks in London are at even greater risk of fire ripping through them than Lakanal House in Camberwell, where six people died in July.
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NewsCurtains up for Toh Shimazaki
Toh Shimazaki has won planning permission for an eight storey mixed use development on Curtain Road in Shoreditch, east London.
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News£61m Viñoly Leicester theatre ‘not good value for money’
Rafael Viñoly’s first completed project in the UK, the Curve theatre in Leicester, has been slammed by the Audit Commission for failing to provide good value for money.
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NewsIM Pei awarded RIBA Royal Gold Medal
Chinese-born American architect IM Pei has been named as the recipient of the 2010 RIBA Royal Gold Medal.
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NewsBamboo football inspires UN Studio’s Chinese stadium winner
UN Studio has won a closed competition to design a 38,500sq m, 40,000-seat football stadium for Chinese super league team Dalian Shide FC.
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NewsCouncil approves first phase of Oxford University’s Radcliffe Infirmary plan
Oxford City Council has given the go-ahead for the first phase of the Radcliffe Infirmary site, one of the most significant projects Oxford University has carried out for more than a century.
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Tory 'Green Deal' proposed to make homes more energy efficient
Conservative Party plans to give homeowners an allowance of up to £6,500 each to make their houses energy efficient have been strongly welcomed by green groups.
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Koolhaas opens Hong Kong office
Rem Koolhaas’s practice OMA is to open a new office in Hong Kong this week to manage the growing number of projects the practice is persuing in east Asia.
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NewsKoolhaas Glasgow Maggie’s Centre wins planning
Maggie’s has won planning permission for a new £2.1 million cancer care centre in Glasgow designed by Rem Koolhaas and the Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA).
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Follett steps down from parliament
Former architecture minister Barbara Follett is stepping down as an MP.
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NewsSauerbruch Hutton's prototype low-carbon city block
Berlin-based German practice Sauerbruch Hutton has beaten four other shortlisted teams to win the commission to design a low-carbon prototype city block in Helsinki, Finland.
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NewsODA leaves smaller firms out in the cold
Olympics framework to encourage up-and-coming practices is scrapped
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NewsYAYA 2009 shortlist announced
Five firms have made the shortlist for BD's 2009 Young Architect of the Year award, sponsored by Autodesk.