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Pear trees for Harley Street
Trees are to be planted on London’s Harley Street for the first time in its 300-year history.
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NewsHopkins returns to Bryanston
Hopkins Architects has been commissioned to design a music building for Bryanston School, Dorset.
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Cabe and RIBA invite entries
Cabe is inviting entries for the 2008 prime minister’s better public building award.
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NewsDSP puts art at school’s heart
DSP Architects has completed an extension to King James’s School at Knaresborough, Yorkshire, which builds over a non-load-bearing flat roof.
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NewsDesign for London needs reform, says Paddick
Mayoral candidate dismisses organisation as a ‘talking shop’
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NewsDfL exhibition looks at public realm
A new exhibition curated by Design for London which opened this week will attempt to engage the public in a wide-ranging debate over the development of the capital’s public realm.
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NewsBDP’s Victoria Square completed
BDP’s £160 million scheme for Victoria Square, Belfast (pictured) opened to the public on Thursday.
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Mosque consultation begins
A public consultation into plans for the Abbey Mills Mosque in Newham, east London, has begun.
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NewsBD’s Woodman to curate pavilion
BD’s buildings editor Ellis Woodman (pictured) is to curate this year’s British pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
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RMJM bashes Beijing boycotters
RMJM chief executive Peter Morrison has attacked global figures including Steven Spielberg for boycotting the Beijing Olympics.
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Mipim property fair biggest ever
Over 28,000 delegates from 85 countries are expected to attend Mipim 2008 next week, a rise on the 26,210 who went to the event in the south of France last year.
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NewsMill turns to retail
Lyons, Sleeman & Hoare has applied for planning to transform the five-storey, grade II listed Slingfield Mill building at Kidderminster, Worcestershire, into a department store and hotel.
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Allies & Morrison wins Olympic media centre bid
Allies & Morrison has beaten Hopkins Architects and its partner Bouygues to land the £400 million media centre project for London’s 2012 Olympic Games.
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NewsPimlico school’s demolition begins
Demolition has begun at Pimlico school, the brutalist landmark in Westminster which has been the centre of a long-running listing battle. The 1970 school’s swimming pool has already been bulldozed and the iconic Claverton Street entrance is shortly due to be torn down in a move campaigners claim is an ...
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NewsBD buildings editor to curate UK pavilion at Venice Biennale
The British Council has appointed BD’s buildings editor Ellis Woodman to curate this year’s British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. The exhibition will feature housing designs by five practices: Sergison Bates, Tony Fretton, de Rijke Marsh Morgan, Witherford Watson Mann and Maccreanor Lavington. Woodman said the exhibition would address the ...
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NewsAlsop brings glamour to Putney
SMC Alsop has unveiled images of its mixed use development near East Putney station in London.
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NewsHerzog & de Meuron among architects in running for Lord's cricket ground masterplan
Herzog & de Meuron and HOK Sport are among the practices bidding to draw up a £200 million masterplan for Lord’s cricket ground.Operator Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) is working with the Architecture Foundation to draw up a shortlist for the work at the famous sporting ground in north London which ...
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NewsPrizewinners throw their weight behind Robin Hood Gardens campaign
Gold medallists and Pritzker winners are among petition supporters
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D’Offay calls for a Guggenheim of the North
Art dealer Anthony D’Offay has called for a Guggenheim-style architectural landmark to house his contemporary art collection in Scotland. D’Offay sold 725 works worth £125 million to the Tate and National Galleries Scotland last week, at a fraction of their market value. The collection, arranged into 50 “artists rooms” and ...