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NewsShock and awe
MVRDV’s Serpentine mountain is typically subversive, but is its first UK building a provocation too far? Zoë Blackler talks to the Dutch trio
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NewsGLA’s ‘green’ dream in the shade as County Hall brings in the sun
RHWL’s plans to install solar panels on County Hall roofs could provide a quarter of the site’s energy needs
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Future sees return of icons
Crystal-ball-gazing study predicts 5 million new homes, a London ‘megopolis’ and 24-hour cities in 20 years
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Gothic labyrinth for Barbican
It is notoriously difficult to navigate, but now visitors to the Barbican in London will face a fresh challenge in the form of a new gothic-style labyrinth right on its doorstep.
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Grace flop not my fault, says Alsop
Public sector ‘lost the will’ Liverpool council inquiry told
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NewsTwisting the night away
Atkins has won a commission to design a major new landmark building in Bahrain, known as the Twisting Towers. Head architect on the tower — a luxury hotel for an unnamed client at an undisclosed location — is Tom Wright, who also led the design on the practice’s award-winning Burj ...
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Nominate Britains best client
Give your client a slap on the back and nominate them for BD’s inaugural Client of the Year Award. You have just one week left to name your favourite before we draw up a shortlist and put it to a reader vote.
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NewsAlsop makes the grade
Alsop Architects has unveiled its new concept for the remodelling of an average secondary school. The new exemplar is designed as an easy way for schools to expand. The practice hopes it will be adopted by companies bidding to build or refurbish schools under the government’s £2.2 billion Building Schools ...
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Hit and miss
- World Trade Centre leaseholder Larry Silverstein has agreed to pay Ground Zero architect Daniel Libeskind $370,000 for his design work on the Freedom Tower in a legal settlement announced this week. The payment settles a lawsuit filed by Libeskind in July claiming he was owed more than $843,000 for ...
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NewsPeople
- Peter Watson, former head of corporate and consumer services at Luton Borough Council, has been appointed director-general of operations at the East of England Development Agency. Watson was instrumental in the formation of the PPP deal for the management of London Luton Airport.- US architect E Fay Jones (pictured), ...
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Power play
- The Conservatives’ environment and transport shadow Tim Yeo told this week’s Tory party conference that, if elected, a Conservative government would develop brownfield land around 20 large train stations across the UK to fund improvements to the stations themselves. - Cabe has pledged £150,000 in new funding to make ...
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NewsAdjayes Lawrence tribute
David Adjaye’s design for The Stephen Lawrence Centre in south-east London has been submitted for planning permission.The £2.5 million centre in Deptford will support young people from black Caribbean and African families who want to pursue career opportunities in architecture and the creative industries.The centre includes a double-height foyer which ...
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TP Bennett gets softer side with SEF acquisition
TP Bennett has acquired sef Architects, creating a new division to bid for health, education and social housing work.
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NewsBowled over
Alison Brooks Architects has been granted planning permission for a £1.6 million private house overlooking a bowling green in Wandsworth, south-west London. The 600sq m house, for developer Lyford Investments, is conceived as a continuous folding surface that creates a series of platforms over the landscape. This would create an ...
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Ex-Aukett directors poach former client
Staff who left Aukett in the wake of a boardroom takeover in May have formed their own practice and already poached one of the listed practice’s clients.
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Murphy comes home to restore historic warehouse
Richard Murphy has won his first project in his home town of Manchester: the refurbishment of one of the world’s most significant 19th century warehouses.
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Ken backs Rogers City tower
Richard Rogers Partnership’s proposed 224m-high office tower in Leadenhall Street, London, has won the backing of London mayor Ken Livingstone.