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NewsMVRDV and Adept win contest for Copenhagen tower
Dutch practice MVRDV and Danish architect Adept have won a competition to design a 116m-high skyscraper in Copenhagen.
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NewsTrump wins go-ahead for £1bn Scottish golf resort
The Scottish government has granted Donald Trump permission to build his controversial £1 billion golf resort at Balmedie, Aberdeenshire.
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NewsMuseum pretty in pink after guerrilla architect strikes
Painting the town… pink? A former Architect Association student and “guerrilla architect” has struck at the Foire Internationale D’art Contemporaine in Paris.
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NewsVan Egaraat wins competition to design Budapest City Hall
Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat has won an international competition to design a new City Hall in Budapest, Hungary.
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NewsHistoric Berlin airport closes
The last planes have taken off from Berlin’s Tempelhof airport, after a referendum to save the airport failed to attract enough support.
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NewsBerkeley Group chief blasts ‘secretive’ Cabe
Pidgley accuses architectural establishment of trying to control projects
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NewsParliament tents must go, say MP and architects
Architects have backed MP Andrew MacKinlay’s move to get rid of a set of semi-permanent marquees which he says have become a “blot” on the private terraces of the Houses of Parliament.
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NewsPrasad and Adam in conference clash
RIBA president Sunand Prasad has hit out at classicist Robert Adam for “fighting yesterday’s battle” after the pair sparred in the closing debate of the RIBA International Conference last weekend.
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NewsSimpson completes Manchester ‘jigsaw’
Ian Simpson Architects has unveiled plans for the transformation of a key city centre site in Manchester.
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NewsViñoly inside out
Rafael Viñoly’s first completed project in the UK, Leicester’s £61 million Curve theatre, opened to visitors this week.
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Scottish planning shakeup
The Scottish government has revealed a range of measures to speed up its planning system, in a move it calls a “fundamental shift” in its approach to planning.
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NewsPlanners set to bin Make’s scheme for McDonald’s
Plans by Make for fast food giant McDonald’s first major mixed-use project in the UK are likely to be rejected by Tower Hamlets Council, which says the site is inappropriate for family housing.
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Architecture of the Year Awards 2008
As this years awards demonstrate, the state of British architecture is healthy. The 16 categories were all hotly contested, the judges praised the fresh approach of the younger practices, while the established firms showed a confidence and consistency that is hugely impressive.
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Toolkit to revitalise Park Royal
Cambridge-based architect 5th Studio has put forward proposals to revitalise west London’s Park Royal, Europe’s largest industrial estate.
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David McLean Holdings goes bust
One of Wales’s biggest developers, David McLean Holdings, plus its subsidiaries, has gone into administration.
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NewsWestfield shopping centre opens
The £1.7 billion Westfield London shopping centre in Shepherds Bush was opened on Thursday by mayor Boris Johnson.
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Apple wins go-ahead for Covent Garden HQ
Westminster City Council has granted planning permission for computer giant Apple to create its new European headquarters in a series of grade II listed buildings close to the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden.
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NewsHTA answers Carbon Challenge with Hanham Hall eco-village
Housing and regeneration specialist HTA Architects has revealed detailed images of Hanham Hall, England’s first eco-village, proposed for a 6.6ha site near Bristol.