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McAslan, AHMM and BDP top shortlist for BD’s Architect of the Year Awards
The finalists for BD’s Architect of the Year Awards 2008 have been announced, with Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, BDP and John McAslan & Partners all gaining four nominations.
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Gold medallist Hoy launches 2012 velodrome design
The latest designs for the 2012 VeloPark were unveiled on Monday by Beijing gold medallist Chris Hoy.
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Foster loses £15m on record revenue
Foster & Partners suffered a £15 million loss last year despite experiencing a record-breaking boost in revenue.
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New images of RSHP’s sports centre revealed
Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners’ Chelsea Barracks scheme will include a £40 million community sports centre, it has emerged.
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Big names lined up for Biennale talks
International landscape architects Neil Porter and Eelco Hooftman are set to take part in Making Space in the European City, a debate hosted by BD in the Gareth Hoskins-designed Scottish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
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Cabe slams two major housing schemes
Cabe has slammed two residential schemes designed by Barton Willmore comprising more than 7,000 homes between them.
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Solar power plan to green deserts
Exploration Architecture has announced plans for an innovative scheme combining greenhouses with solar power to provide food, fresh water and energy in desert environments.
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Lunts will ‘advocate good design’
The new London director of the Homes & Communities Agency, David Lunts, has vowed to be a “passionate advocate” for good design.
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Historian Paul Overy dies aged 68
Art and architecture historian Paul Overy has died aged 68 from pancreatic cancer.
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Wexford Opera House makes its debut
The Office of Public Works Architects with Keith Williams Architects' new Wexford Opera House officially opens today.
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ACA publishes its rival client contract
The Association of Consultant Architects has published its new client contract, in direct competition with the RIBA’s new standard form of agreement.
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K2’s cladding for five-bed home set to become ‘cloud atlas’
Liverpool-based practice K2 Architects has unveiled images of its first major commission, a bespoke zinc-clad “cloud house” in a rural part of Merseyside.
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Metal pair for Moscow
Anglo-Russian firm McAdam Architects has unveiled images of a £14.6 million apartment complex for central Moscow.
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BSF school sees high grades leap
Bristol Brunel Academy, by Wilkinson Eyre, one of 13 BSF schools now open, has seen 34% of students awarded five or more GCSEs at grades A to C including English and Maths, up from 19% last year.
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RSC stages new appeal for funds
The Royal Shakespeare Company has launched its Transforming our Theatres appeal, to raise £1 million towards its Bennetts Associates-designed theatre development in Stratford-upon-Avon.
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Regional funds to boost waterfront
The Northwest Regional Development Agency has granted £1.9 million to the second phase of Liverpool city centre’s Waterfront Connections project.
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Site work starts on Swanke Hayden Connell academy
Work has begun on site on Swanke Hayden Connell Architects’ City of London Academy in Islington, north London.
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New 2012 Olympic stadium images
HOK Sport's design for the 2012 Olympic stadium has passed a fresh hurdle after being granted second stage reserved matters planning permission last week.
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