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Arb defers decision on selecting architects
Arb has deferred its decision on whether to appoint or elect architect members to its board until after its elections next February.
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Chipperfield wins Italian prize
David Chipperfield has been selected as the recipient of Italy’s Cubo d’Oro prize for 2008.
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Tim Foster wins planning appeal
Tim Foster Architects has won planning permission for a 9,000sq m office and retail development behind King’s Cross Station in central London following a public inquiry appeal.
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Aukett is ditched from pioneering eco-home
Aukett Fitzroy Robinson has been axed as the architect of a pioneering eco-home set to be built using hemp at the Building Research Establishment’s innovation park.
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Follett joins Scott Antarctica hut campaign
Architecture minister Barbara Follett has joined the campaign to save a hut in Antarctica used by Captain Scott.
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Public toilets become gallery space
A former public toilet block in Teddington - The Powder Rooms - has been transformed into a new home for architectural practice, Architecture WK.
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Prince of Wales opens Eastbrook Hall restoration
Eastbrook Hall in the Little Germany area of Bradford has been opened by the Prince of Wales following its restoration by a team headed by the Prince’s Regeneration Trust and designed by Brewster Bye Architects.
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American architects reach out to Obama
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has offered its services as an advisor on urban development policy and green buildings to US president-elect Barak Obama.
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LCE's Lancing College
LCE Architects has completed this 1,000sq m art building for private school Lancing College in West Sussex.
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Beckett insists Thames Gateway remains on track (video)
The development of the Thames Gateway will not fall behind schedule because of the impending recession, housing minister Margaret Beckett has insisted.
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Architects warned Middle East is not work 'utopia'
The Middle East is not a “utopia” of work opportunities, architects were warned at the first of RIBA London's world cities debates.
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Zaha's flower sculpture goes to New York
A series of sculptures designed by Zaha Hadid are currently on display in New York including a version of her Kloris sculpture which is part of a permanent exhibition in Derbyshire.
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Ellis Woodman on I.M. Pei's Museum of Islamic Art
BD’s buildings editor Ellis Woodman visits I.M. Pei’s new Museum of Islamic Art in Doha and suggests the handsome building offers a clear rebuke to flamboyant architecture elsewhere in the Gulf.
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Studio Seilern’s Forrester house
Work has begun on Christina Seilern’s first commission since her departure from Rafael Viñoly Architects.
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RIBA president welcomes government's recession measures
RIBA president Sunand Prasad has welcomed yesterday's pre-budget report by chancellor Alistair Darling, which the government claims will avert the worst consequences of the recession. Key pledges include bringing forward £3 billion of public capital expenditure from 2010/11 to 2009/10 for schools, housing and transport, cutting VAT from 17.5% to ...
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Gareth Hoskins Architects wins Hadrian’s Wall competition
Gareth Hoskins has won the controversial competition to design a major new visitor centre at Hadrian’s Wall.
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Brit architecture grads rack up win for New York bike park
An entry by British architecture graduates Anthony Lau and Jessica Lee has been selected as a joint winner of New York’s City Racks international design competition to create a bike park, alongside that of US practice RSVP Studio.
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I.M. Pei's Qatar Museum of Islamic Art
I.M. Pei’s Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar is to open to the public on Monday December 1st.
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Ingenhoven Architects wins International Criminal Court competition
Düsseldorf-based practice Ingenhoven Architects has won first prize in a competition to design a new permanent home for the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague, plus a cash award of €60,000.