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NewsShigeru Ban pioneers earthquake homes
Shigeru Ban has designed a temporary housing scheme for victims of the Japanese earthquake.
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NewsShaky ground for Foster’s Vegas hotel
Foster & Partners’ unfinished Las Vegas hotel is almost certainly past repair and could collapse in an earthquake, according to a new report by a firm of US engineers.
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NewsMayor hopes to realise Florence vision
The mayor of Florence wants to realise Michelangelo’s vision to complete the city’s San Lorenzo Basilica 500 years after it was scrapped because of the cost of importing marble.
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NewsCultural Guide 1-7 August
The urban life, past and present of Kinshasa and London, and Edinburgh’s annual Festival of cultural make the grade for this weeks guide.
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Edinburgh University submits Murphy plans
The University of Edinburgh has put in for detailed planning permission for a Richard Murphy-designed 252-bed student residence.
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NewsShortlists announced for 2011 Architect of the Year Awards
Small practices take on architectural giants in the running for this year’s awards, which celebrate bodies of work across 13 categories.
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NewsBD welcomes arrival of Ecobuild
BD’s publisher UBM has bought the world’s largest showcase of sustainable building products
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NewsCost cutting could save Preston’s bus station
Hopes have been raised that Preston’s 1960s brutalist bus station could be saved after it emerged that talks are taking place about revising plans for the city’s Tithebarn redevelopment.
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NewsMake and Jestico & Whiles on hotel awards shortlist
Other finalists include RHWL, ReardonSmith and Purcell Miller Tritton
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NewsGensler appointed to design interiors of Birmingham tower
Gensler to provide ’revolutionary’ law offices for Sidell Gibson tower
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NewsThe Botta line
A recent bdonline blog noted that one of the entrants to the Class of 2011 awards claimed to have an image of Mario Botta’s Santa Maria degli Angeli Chapel tattooed on his left arm.
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NewsBrady taskforce to tackle procurement culture
RIBA president-elect unveils series of radical initiatives to ’make a difference quickly’
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NewsCentral St Martins art college shifts home
Central St Martins is gearing up to move from its Charing Cross Road and Southampton Row sites to Stanton Williams-designed premises in London’s King’s Cross before September.
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NewsFacebook appoints Gensler to design London office
Gensler has been commissioned by Facebook to do the interior design for its new London office.The US new media company is moving its 70 UK staff from Carnaby Street to a listed former brewery in Covent Garden early next year and is currently recruiting.The new 3,500sq m offices will have ...
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NewsSquire & Partners triumphs in £300 million Shell Centre deal
Oil wants to revamp 1963 tower and create mixed-use scheme