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The 2007 Aga Kahn Award winners - images
NEWS: Foster wins an award for Petronas tech university IMAGES: Photographs of all nine international award winners
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The joy of car parks
FIRST PERSON: Simon Henley, author of a new book on parking architecture, explains his passion IMAGES: Six of the best OPINION: A fascinating account long-overdue COMPETITION: Win a copy of the book
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The Little Britain Challenge Cup
How did the architects perform at this year's construction industry regatta? We bring you the results, while BD's Helen Crump dons her yachting gear but finds she is more drawn to the bar than the ship's deck
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NewsAxed lottery funds could hit Holburne
Bath museum extension at risk as money switches from arts to Olympics
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NewsWilkinson Eyre's Brunel Academy - images
Wilkinson Eyre's Bristol Brunel Academy, the first school in the UK to be completed under the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) initiative, opened to students on Wednesday.Delivered through the Bristol Local Education Partnership, Bristol City Council, Partnerships for Schools and Skanska, the academy is the first of four new ...
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NewsCabe appoints three new commissioners
Piers Gough, Nick Johnson and Hanif Kara are to become architecture watchdog Cabe’s latest commissioners.Gough and Kara will start immediately, replacing Dickon Robinson and Louisa Hutton, who stepped down in July. Johnson will succeed Brian Boylan, who plans to leave in December.Gough, principal of CZWG, said he hoped to become ...
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NewsFoster university in Malaysia wins Aga Khan award
Nine projects from around the world including one by Britain’s Foster & Partners, this week won a share in architecture’s biggest prize — the Aga Khan Award.
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NewsThe rehabilitation of Nicosia
The Nicosia Master Plan team win an award for the restoration of the Cypriot walled city, Nicosia
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NewsRestoration of the Amiriya Complex
The revival of lost building techniques was key to the rebuilding of Amiriya in Yemen
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NewsRoyal Netherlands Embassy, Addis Ababa
Dutch architects Dick van Gameren and Bjarne Mastenbroek win with a contemporary structure that engages with its environment
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NewsMoulmein Rise Residential Tower, Singapore
Singapore practice WOHA Architect win an award for their residential skyscraper
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NewsKoudougou's Central Market
Stablised earth has been used to create an important public space in Koudougou, Burkina Faso
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NewsRehabilitation of the city of Shibam
The successful preservation of Shibam in the Yemen as a living community earns the project an Aga Khan Award
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NewsSamir Kassir Square, Lebanon
Lebanon's pre-eminent landscape architect Vladimir Djurovic wins an award for the new Samir Kassir Square
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NewsRMJM tower threatens St Petersburg's world heritage status
Unesco is threatening to strip St Petersburg of its World Heritage status if the city proceeds with plans to build RMJM’s Gazprom tower.The 396m HQ for energy giant Gazprom has faced fierce opposition since RMJM won an international design competition last December.On Friday, Unesco’s deputy director Marcio Barbosa said Russia ...
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Shortlist for Olympic handball arena announced
DRMM, David Morley Architects, Make and Grimshaw are among those to make the shortlist for the London 2012 Olympic handball arena
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NewsNews Junkie: 1 and 2 September
Essential truths revealed this week: posh people block supermarkets, old people block nightclubs, famous people alienate neighbours, rich drug-dealing people invest in urban regeneration.
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NewsMies' Farnsworth House under water
One of the twentieth century’s most important buildings, Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House in Illinois, came within a foot-and-a-half of serious damage as a result of recent flooding.
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NewsHuge Cabe expansion revealed
Massive public cash injection fuels ninefold increase in staffing levels
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NewsAHMM is Barking up the right tree
The regeneration of London’s Barking town centre has taken a huge step forward as the first phase of AHMM’s masterplan reaches completion.