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NewsAF travel scholarship competition launched
The Architecture Foundation has launched this year’s Public Space Travel Scholarship, which offers students a chance to win up to £1,000 to explore the design and impact of public space and public building overseas.
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The winners of our Smoking Shed Challenge
The winning designs in our smoking shed competition offer a challenge to the pub chains to raise their aspirations
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NewsGreen House wins Barratt deal
The winner of the BD/Mail on Sunday design competition for a low-energy home with mass market appeal has hailed its “fantastic” opportunity after housebuilding giant Barratt pledged to use the designs on a commercial scale.
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RMJM to merge with US practice
RMJM and US architect Hillier have announced they are to merge, creating a 1,000-strong firm with offices in 16 cities around the world. The new practice will have more than $15 billion of current work on its books, and offices in the US, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.The new ...
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NewsChipperfield unveils Turner Contemporary design for Margate - images
David Chipperfield Architects has revealed its design for the Turner Contemporary gallery in Margate. The scheme replaces Snøhetta Spence’s project for a site at the end of Margate Pier, which was abandoned last year after costs rose to an estimated £48 million.The new scheme is budgeted at £17.4 million and ...
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NewsPeter Cook receives a knighthood
Peter Cook has received a knighthood for services to architecture in the Queen’s Birthday Honours announced on Saturday.The Archigram member, academic and designer of the 2012 Olympic Stadium said the award “offers a symbol of hope to the young”.“It gives hope to all those people not just doing boring buildings ...
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NewsNews Junkie: 16 and 17 June
For your browsing pleasure this week: boomtime for bourgeois yurts, a ludic cityscape featuring teddy bears dressed in bridal costumes, and the 'ineluctable modality of the visible...'
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Design fault threatens exemplar eco-town
Swedish inspiration for Brown’s initiative faces “ticking time bomb” as damp rots timber frames
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NewsA good year for Rioja
Foreign Office Architects has completed its largest project since its debut work, the Yokohama Ferry Terminal.
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NewsRykwert furious as his one surviving building faces demolition
Renowned architect and academic Joseph Rykwert has publicly slammed proposals by Foster & Partners to demolish his last surviving building and replace it with a “gated community” for the super rich.
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Academics study divided cities
Project seeking Belfast lessons for Israel is welcomed by campaigners
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NewsFoster even stronger as profits double...
Foster & Partners looks to be cementing its reputation as the world’s leading practice after a remarkable jump in pre-tax profits for the last financial year, to £6.3 million, more than double the previous year’s £2.5 million.
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News...but SMC admits it is set to shed staff
Up to 30 people employed within the SMC Group look set to lose their jobs, it emerged at the firm’s annual general meeting this week.
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Carbuncle cup: send us your horrors now
This year’s award for the worst buildings in the country — the Carbuncle Cup — is now calling for entries.
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NewsYoung firm nets Offley
Leading young architect 6a has scooped the top prize in a competition to transform the disused Offley Works in Lambeth, south London.
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NewsGlasgow museum costs spiral
The cost of Zaha Hadid’s flagship transport museum in Glasgow (pictured) has risen again, by £14 million, to £74 million. The initial cost was projected at £50 million, but it has risen almost 50% to date.
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Hadid drafted in at Serpentine
Hadid has also become the third architect to be involved in this year’s Serpentine pavilion after the scheme by architect Kjetil Thorsen and artist Olafur Eliasson was delayed by two weeks.
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Tall build fire rules ‘too simplistic’
The Passive Fire Protection Federation has warned that fire safety regulations for tall buildings are inadequate.