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Prototype wins RTPI silver cup
A prototype eco-town has won the Royal Town Planning Institute’s Silver Jubilee Cup.
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NewsOffice as powerhouse
SOM claims this will be the first large-scale office building in the world to produce more energy than it uses.
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Eco-town protesters march on Stratford
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Stratford-upon-Avon last week to object to proposals for one of Gordon Brown’s controversial eco-towns.
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Prince Charles to build pilot eco-home
NEWS: Prince Charles plans to construct traditionally built eco-home OPINION: The Prince has reignited debate but defining zero-carbon is the key DEBATE: Is Prince Charles' latest blast welcome?
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Edward Cullinan collects the Royal Gold Medal
NEWS: Cullinan collects the award for life-time achievement COMMENT: Ted Cullinan: humanist for our time, says Julyan Wickham + AUDIO: "He should have won this years ago"
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NewsViñoly reveals designs for terminal at Carrasco Airport , Uruguay
Architect Rafael Viñoly has designed a terminal for Carrasco International Airport in his home country of Uruguay.The terminal will be added to expand capacity at the airport, which is in the capital city of Montevideo.The building, which features a curved roof, has been designed to highlight public spaces for both ...
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NewsHerzog picks 100 architects for Inner Mongolia housing project
Simon Conder ‘very surprised’ to be only UK designer picked for 100-day, 100-home project in Chinese desert region of Ordos
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NewsArb expenses claimed by board members soar 74%
Deputy chair claims £16,000 for 50 days reading time, as board claims it is a victim of its own success
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NewsSheppard Robson wins Hammersmith makeover - images
Sheppard Robson has beaten Wilkinson Eyre and Barton Wilmore in a competition to design a regeneration scheme in Hammersmith, west London.
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NewsBroadway Malyan scheme for Luton ignites row over destruction of listed buildings
Victorian Society in bid to save town’s hat-making heritage from shopping centre extention
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NewsOMA unveils Singapore residential complex design - images
Rem Koolhaas' Office for Metropolitan Architecture is to design a large-scale residential development in Singapore featuring a "vertical village" of cascading sky gardens.
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NewsSmall firms face new doubts on Olympics
The role of young and smaller practices in the 2012 Olympics has again been cast into doubt as the legacy masterplan goes to KCAP, Edaw and Allies & Morrison
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NewsAquatic Centre: swan dive or belly flop?
The Olympic Delivery Authority has denied that Zaha Hadid’s Aquatic Centre has been compromised by legacy concerns, despite the addition of two massive seating stands for use during the 2012 games.
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‘Significant’ shortage of skills to cost firms dear
A survey of leading practices has revealed the shocking scale of the skills shortage facing the architectural profession, with respondents expecting annual staff turnover to rise to an average of more than 70% in the next five years.
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NewsStumbling on H-blocks
HOK Sport has revealed images of its controversial proposals for a multi-sport stadium to stand on the former site of Belfast’s Maze Prison.
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NewsFramework plan alarms RIBA
Architects may have to bid for hundreds of millions of pounds worth of work through a huge network of framework agreements that could cover all of England.
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Climate change demands
The RIBA has written to Gordon Brown, calling for a binding agreement to tackle climate change.
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NewsMinister U-turns on Giant’s Causeway
A dramatic U-turn by Northern Ireland environment minister Arlene Foster this week cleared the way for Heneghan Peng’s Giant’s Causeway visitor centre.
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NewsHotel’s sandstone facade fits in to Glasgow’s material world
Edinburgh architect Allan Murray has submitted this four-star, 200-bed hotel in Glasgow for planning.
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Lottery blow to Manchester museum
City’s ‘Guggenheim’ ambitions felled as funds go to historic ships