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NewsBuilding skyscrapers after 9/11 (video)
Foster & Partner’s Michael Wurzel talks to Will Hurst about building skyscrapers in New York after 9/11.
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NewsRMJM wants ‘world record’ for leaning Abu Dhabi Capital Gate tower
RMJM has submitted its leaning Capital Gate tower in Abu Dhabi to the Guinness Book of Records for recognition as the world’s “most inclined tower”.
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NewsTake off at Gensler’s New York terminal
The first planes have taken off from Gensler’s Jet Blue terminal 5 at JFK Airport in New York.
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NewsMorrison anger over Waterloo towers call in
Allies & Morrison partner Graham Morrison has hit out at English Heritage after the government called-in the practice’s £1 billion Three Sisters project on London’s South Bank.
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NewsSheffield projects dominate RIBA Yorkshire awards
Sheffield buildings have won eight out of the 13 awards at this year’s RIBA Yorkshire White Rose Awards.
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NewsWilkinson Eyre to design Exeter University landmark building
Wilkinson Eyre has beaten Foreign Office Architects to design a £45 million landmark building for Exeter University.
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NewsRevamped Oslo Central Station aims to unify city
Norwegian practice Space Group competition-winning bid to redesign Oslo Central Station hopes to unify the city, which has historically been divided into East and West by two separate transport hubs.
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NewsSwedish practice launches passive house range
Young Swedish practice Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture has developed six new “passive houses”.
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NewsHeatherwick’s Shanghai Expo ‘jewel’ hit by row
Curator’s departure from 2010 pavilion comes amid uncertainty over UK’s message
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NewsFoster says recession will not force him to cut jobs
Norman Foster has shrugged off the world’s economic woes, vowing that a looming recession will not force Fosters & Partners to make any cuts to its 1,300-strong staff, despite the wave of redundancies hitting the UK.
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NewsArt applied to the locale
Wandsworth Council has approved the final two phases of a new £33 million campus for the Royal College of Art by Haworth Tompkins.
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NewsCabe calls in Sparks for Crossrail panel
Veteran to chair station review panel with Shuttleworth as deputy
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NewsHope as key public projects accelerate
Architects have welcomed government plans to bring forward billions of pounds of public projects to stimulate the country’s faltering economy amid a further wave of redundancies in the profession.
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NewsHotel tower rethink after Boris intervenes
A proposed 16-storey hotel scheme by Hamiltons on London’s South Bank is likely to be sent back to the drawing board after mayor Boris Johnson went against his own planning officers’ advice to criticise the project.
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NewsUK industry can impact on world forest management, says Greenpeace
New report shows ways of avoiding unsustainable plywood and obtaining FSC certified eco-timber
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NewsAllies & Morrison Lambeth scheme called in by Blears
Communities secretary Hazel Blears has called in Allies & Morrison’s Three Sisters project in Lambeth.
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NewsVan Egeraat’s Leipzig University is topped out
Erick Van Egeraat’s new building for the University of Leipzig in Germany has celebrated its topping out ceremony.
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NewsCouncil claims lack of refurb cash
Tower Hamlets Council has reiterated its opposition to the listing of Robin Hood Gardens, describing the Smithsons’ iconic estate as an “outdated and unpopular design” which has “deteriorated badly”.
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Richard Buckley dies at 45
Architect Richard Buckley, 45, a founding partner of Buckley Gray Yeoman, has drowned while on a family holiday. Buckley (pictured) set up the practice with his wife Fiammetta Gray in 1996.