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NewsRichard Murphy receives OBE in New Year’s list
Leading Scottish architect Richard Murphy has made a surprise appearance on the New Year’s honours list having won an OBE for services to architecture.
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Whos got the power?
Who are the most powerful figures in British architecture? We offer our definitive list of the 50 people you need in your contacts book this year, as chosen by our expert jury.
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NewsChina bright
These designs by SMC Alsop are for a unique power station proposed at Dongtan in China — the world’s largest eco-city.
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Brown will be biggest influence this year
Chancellor Gordon Brown has topped BD’s list of the 50 public figures who will wield the greatest influence over architecture in 2007.
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Barajas bomb blast hits Rogers’ terminal
Richard Rogers’ Stirling Prize-winning Terminal 4 at Madrid Barajas airport sustained superficial damage in the terrorist bombing last Saturday, which authorities believe killed two men. However, most of the building was open to passengers the next day after access routes were cleared of debris.
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NewsCanterbury’s green wings
Architects Design Partnership has submitted this design for a flagship building for Canterbury Christ Church University to planners.
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NewsChipperfield’s ‘car park’ flats rejected
David Chipperfield has been sent back to the drawing board to revise designs for his largest commission in the UK to date.
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NewsThe heart of the matter
English Partnerships has appointed Elliot Lipton’s First Base to create the Heart of East Greenwich project in south-east London, with designs by Make.
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BSF gathers speed as schools contracts are let
Aedas with Balfour Beatty has been appointed to design seven new schools for Knowsley Council’s £150 million Building Schools for the Future programme.
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NewsShenzhen tower, China by Farrells
Farrells has revealed its plans for a massive mixed-use development in Shenzhen, China, after winning an international competition.
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Gehry’s Brighton scheme awaits approval as rival design emerges
Frank Gehry’s scheme for the King Alfred site in Brighton has begun the new year with more controversy as the council’s decision date for the planning application — December 21 — was over-run and a rival proposal emerged.
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NewsAssembly point
Cardiff and Swansea-based architect Powell Dobson has won the design contract for new offices for the Welsh Assembly Government in Aberystwyth, west Wales.
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NewsThe architecture market in the Middle East
A dependence on the black stuff has been a critical factor in the demand for development in the Middle East. The region, keen to wean itself off its 30-year crude oil habit, has thrown itself into a development programme to diversify its economy that has left the rest of the ...
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NewsArchitecture opportunities in India
After half a century of economic self-sufficiency, India is simultaneously absorbing the major global waves of the 20th century: IT/outsourcing from the 1990s, capital markets from the 1980s, electronics from the 1960s, highways from the 1940s.
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NewsThe cost of going global
Top architects’ green credentials in doubt as their international flights create huge quantities of carbon
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NewsFarrell races proteges for MOD super-site
Terry Farrell is facing competition from no less than three of his former proteges in the race to masterplan what is thought to be the most valuable site in Britain.
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NewsNext generation’s big break
Young architects urged to grab commercial opportunity offered by Architecture Foundation competition
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NewsHow to make an entrance
Off the top of my head, I can think of a dozen cultural organisations that have reconfigured the entrances to their buildings in recent years.
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NewsLloyd’s and listing lobby choose to collaborate
The Twentieth Century Society has put on hold its controversial plan to apply for the spot-listing of the Lloyd’s of London headquarters after meeting the building’s managers this week.