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Cityscape 2008
Dubai Cityscape is the Middle East's answer to the Mipim property fair and attracts around 60,000 visitors from 150 countries. Bdonline reports on the news, new designs, themes and controversies from this year's show.
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NewsReed warns economy will undermine her promises
RIBA president-elect Ruth Reed has warned that the economic downturn is set to cut the RIBA’s programme of activities and could make her election pledge of raising architects’ incomes unachievable.
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NewsFosters' Copenhagen elephant house (video)
Foster & Partners’ elephant house for Copenhagen Zoo opened to rave reviews earlier this year. See around the building yourself with our video tour.
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Cambridge gives 6a its first big UK commission
Up and coming practice 6a Architects has seen off a host of big names to land its first new build project in the UK.
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NewsRick Bell: Architects are the economy's canaries (video)
Rick Bell, executive director of the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects, talks to Will Hurst on surviving a downturn.
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Alvaro Siza wins RIBA Gold Medal
Portugal’s Alvaro Siza has been awarded the RIBA’s Royal Gold Medal for 2009.
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NewsUS to hold competition for new London embassy building
The US Overseas Building Operation is to launch an international competition to design the new premises for the US Embassy in London in the Nine Elms regeneration area in Battersea, South London.
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NewsHadid and Mecanoo win Cityscape awards
Zaha Hadid and Mecanoo were among the winners at the Cityscape Architectural Awards, held in Dubai on Monday.
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NewsMMA Architects wins Curry Stone award
South African practice MMA Architects is the first recipient of the annual $100,000 Curry Stone Design Prize, which awards breakthrough design solutions that respond to areas of need or environmental issues.
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NewsHodge replaced as architecture minister
Margaret Hodge has been replaced as architecture minister in the weekend’s government reshuffle.
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NewsLimited public transport is stunting Dubai’s development, says Livingstone
On the opening day of Cityscape in Dubai, former London mayor Ken Livingstone has said Dubai can not develop as a world financial centre until it has an efficient public transport system.
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NewsDubai plans 1km-high tower
Developer Nakheel this weekend revealed plans for a 1km-high tower in the centre of Dubai, set to eclipse the world’s current tallest tower, the Burj Dubai.
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NewsCraig-Martin portrait of Hadid unveiled at National Portrait Gallery
Zaha Hadid’s fourth appearance in the National Portrait Gallery, unveiled Thursday, could also be called her 1,000,000th as the ever-changing portrait by Michael Craig-Martin will never show the same image twice.
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NewsBoris accused of playing politics with Southwark towers
John Gray, planning inspector of the public inquiry into the Ian Simpson and Wilkinson Eyre towers on London’s South Bank, boosted the case for the two schemes on Thursday when he announced he would not give London mayor Boris Johnson’s objections to them undue weight.
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NewsGough’s Croydon towers vision
CZWG has unveiled these images of the Odalisk — Piers Gough’s tower development set for the centre of Croydon, Surrey.
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Beckett moved to housing in cabinet reshuffle
Margaret Beckett has replaced Caroline Flint as housing minister in today’s government reshuffle.
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Faint praise damns Architecture Week
Future of Architecture Week is questioned again in light of review
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NewsTop names rally to save Seaton Delaval
A roll call of some of Britain’s leading modern architects — from Terry Farrell and Peter Cook to Will Alsop — have backed a National Trust campaign to buy one of John Vanbrugh’s most renowned buildings for public use.