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Election stuns US architects
One of American architecture’s brightest firms threatened to quit the US on Wednesday after President George W Bush won a second term in office.
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NewsFallen Isokon revived
Avanti Architects’ £2.4 million renovation of modernist landmark the Isokon Flats in the London Borough of Hampstead is almost complete.
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Fees to replace Section 106
Under the proposals, outlined in a consultation document published this week, fees would be spent on amenities directly related to a scheme. Section 106 agreements, which typically provide affordable housing or community centres, have been criticised for not enhancing the scheme itself. The report recommends the fees but warns that ...
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Another director quits Alsops new practice
Another director has quit Alsop & Partners, the new practice formed by Will Alsop with investment from a venture capitalist.
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Campaign launched to save Cambridge school
Architects are to launch a campaign to save the Cambridge School of Architecture as alumni and current students expressed outrage over the university’s plans to scrap it.
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Adjayes Rocky Mountain high
David Adjaye has unveiled the first images of his new art museum in Denver, Colorado. The £8 million Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver will feature five galleries across three floors. Adjaye intends it to glow like a “beacon” at night as a result of a Laban-style translucent material suspended behind glass ...
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NewsLessons in light
Deborah Saunt David Hills Architecture has unveiled images of its school in Sheffield which will unite the St Johns Church of England School and St Oswalds Roman Catholic School in a new building on the Manor Estate near the city centre.
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Planning barrier lifted for Battersea Power Station
The government this week paved the way for construction to start next spring on the £1 billion redevelopment of Battersea Power Station, saying that it would not intervene on the project.
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McBains Cooper in church deal
A British firm has won a commission to design churches for one of the fastest-growing Christian churches in the world.
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NewsHague goes under
A transport project in the Hague by Rem Koolhaas’s Office of Metropolitan Architecture has opened. The €234 million (£162 million) Souterrain project includes a new tramway tunnel, two new underground tramway stations and a parking garage.
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Fourth Grace warehouse win
Following news that alternative plans for a winter garden and museum to replace Alsop’s Cloud are struggling to get funding, Liverpool can take solace in the fact that a small 19th century warehouse looks set to be reconstructed on a corner of the Fourth Grace site.
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NewsFilling the gap
Hawkins Brown has unveiled images of a £9 million mixed-use scheme on City Road in east London. The development will include housing, office space, retail facilities and a restaurant, and is the first project by Iconic, a joint venture between developers Londonewcastle and Rugby Estates. Londonewcastle director Robert Soning said ...
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Spotcheck
North-eastSunderland project Plans by Durham practice Howarth Litchfield for a £300 million redevelopment of one of Sunderland’s industrial blackspots have been submitted to City of Sunderland Council. The 36ha Riverside Park proposals, which will include 1,500 new homes, offices, shops, a school and sports ground, are by developer O&H Group ...
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NewsMaking new school rules
Five years ago US architects founded a high school for architecture. We went to see if it worked
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NewsAlsop sells 40%
Turmoil continues as Alsop enters receivership, venture capitalist invests and design director quits
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NewsSeouls chameleon
The world’s largest electronic facade has been created at a department store in Seoul, South Korea.
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Dons dump architecture
Cambridge University set to close architecture school, while Architectural Association plans shake-up
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Backing for man-hour fee scales
The time taken to design a building rather than a percentage of construction costs could become the new way of measuring fees, under proposals for a new pan-European system.