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Competition: Design a baton for the Cycle to Cannes ride 2007 at MIPIM
Next March a team of dedicated cyclists will ride from Calais to the MIPIM property fair in Cannes to raise money for four charities: Land Aid, The Tom ap Rhys Pryce Memorial Trust, Sarah Matheson Trust and Architects for Aid.
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NewsWho's the king of the castle?
Elephant & Castle bust-up sees Alsop out, but other stars are ready to enter the fry
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Lloyd’s recalls Flacq as listing row rumbles on
Lloyd’s of London has recalled Flacq, a young practice formed of ex-Richard Rogers staffers, to look at the future of its iconic headquarters following rows over its potential listing.
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NewsRogers looks to future...
Stirling- Prize winning practice tackles succession question by planning a change of name
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Anger as Barker ‘dismisses design’
One of the government’s key economic advisers is embroiled in an extraordinary row with architects after delivering a speech to RIBA East that sparked “seething anger” among the audience.
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London set for Games face-lift
Councils unveil £200m revampCentral London’s public realm is set to be transformed in time for the 2012 Olympics under £200 million proposals revealed by three powerful local authorities.Camden, Westminster and Kensington & Chelsea councils have joined forces to mastermind the “major refurbishment” project and recently met sports minister Richard Caborn ...
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NewsFoster joins campaign to save
An international campaign to save a Florida school designed by Paul Rudolph is gathering pace on this side of the Atlantic following interventions from the Twentieth Century Society and Norman Foster.
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RIBA proposals offer peace to Arb
Institute drops campaign for regulatory reform order as part of package to end hostilities with regulator
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Top names join education drive
Architectural superstars will teach the ipod generation an appreciation of the built environment under a Cabe initiative launched by Norman Foster this week.
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NewsBridge of sighs
The notoriously crowded and disorientating London Bridge station this week took one step closer to its future with the announcement that the Thameslink 2000 scheme has won planning permission after nine years of legal wrangling.
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NewsLemley resigns as ODA chair
The chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority, Jack Lemley, announced his shock resignation on Wednesday just days after appointing HOK with Buro Happold and Robert McAlpine to design the main Olympic stadium, as tipped in last week’s BD.
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Experts to review ‘radical’ heritage plans
Government-appointed experts are to meet in the next two weeks to review the “radical” Heritage White Paper, set to be published before Christmas.
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NewsBoomerangs a high flier
This is the third year in which the Architecture Foundation has made a travel award for UK students of architecture, sponsored by KPF.
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News...while MacCormac suffers fallout following BBC loss
Award-winning practice MacCormac Jamieson Prichard is continuing to suffer the aftershocks of losing its flagship Broadcasting House project, with the departure of two of its remaining six directors, it emerged this week.
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A place in the City
This design by Rem Koolhaas’s Office for Metropolitan Architecture for a new HQ for banker Rothschild next to Christopher Wren’s St Stephen Walbrook church in London has been submitted for planning permission. If successful, it will be the practice’s first building in the City.
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Five go for gold as Maze makes
Five international practices have been shortlisted to design Northern Ireland’s new multi-sport stadium on the site of the former Maze prison.
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NewsWhere parapets conceal solar secret
Architect Richard Pain has submitted designs for these apartments in Hampton Wick, Surrey, for planning approval.