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NewsReiach & Hall to design British nuclear archive building
Edinburgh firm Reiach & Hall has beaten competition from rivals including Gareth Hoskins to design the UK’s nuclear archive in Caithness, Scotland.The £15 million facility, in Wick, is expected to hold between 20 and 30 million digital, paper and photographic records on the history, development and decommissioning of the country’s ...
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News3D Reid’s Lancaster scheme thrown out by communities minister
Heritage groups are celebrating after a £140 million retail scheme in Lancaster by 3D Reid was thrown out by secretary of state John Denham.The North Canal Corridor project, for developer Centros, involved creating a new shopping centre connected to the city centre via a pedestrian bridge but also the destruction ...
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NewsDiller Scofidio & Renfro museum bubble
This 145ft bubble billowing out of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden on Washington’s National Mall is from the desk of New York firm Diller Scofidio & Renfro.
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NewsK2's Liverpool eco-house goes for planning
K2 Architects has submitted plans for a new eco-house on Merseyside.
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NewsRogers wins Australian competition for £3bn Sydney waterfront development
Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners is celebrating a successful end to 2009 by winning a major international competition in Australia.The practice, working with Lend Lease, beat a team comprising Foster & Partners and Brookfield, to land the £3.3 billion redevelopment of Barangaroo, part of Sydney’s waterfront formerly reserved for shipping ...
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Critics blast RIBA’s new register of conservation architects
Plans to create new register of conservation architects by the RIBA have been sharply criticized by experts in the sector.The RIBA said its new register, which will go head to head with the existing Architects Accredited in Building Conservation (AABC) register, would strengthen the credibility of the profession in conservation.It ...
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NewsVarious Architects' eco-office inspired by Copenhagen
Oslo’s Various Architects AS and Pollen Architecture of Texas have designed Norway’s most efficient office building yet.
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NewsSteffian Bradley’s Durham care centre completes
Steffian Bradley’s £12 million primary care centre for adults and children in County Durham has been completed.
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NewsBrady Mallalieu Architects docklands housing scheme completes
A housing scheme designed by Brady Mallalieu Architects in the shadow of London’s Canary Wharf has been completed.
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NewsWork resumes on Pelli's Chile tower
Work has finally resumed on Cesar Pelli’s 300m-high Torre Gran Costanera in Chile after an 11-month delay caused by the financial crisis.
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NewsPoet Liz Lochhead made RIAS honorary member
The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland has awarded an honorary fellowship to Glasgow’s poet laureate, Liz Lochhead.
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NewsMuse's Blackpool scheme goes for planning
Muse Developments has submitted a planning application for a £220 mixed-use scheme in Blackpool called Talbot Gateway.
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NewsFive shortlisted for urban landscape award
Five schemes have been shortlisted for a combined UK and German landscape architecture prize.
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Kickstart puts millions into failing housing
Cabe calls 54% of Homes & Communities Agency’s bailed-out schemes ‘very high risk’
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NewsPrince plays court jester during a testing year
It has been a year of leaving parties and empty desks as firms high profile and low key felt the full impact of the downturn
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NewsArchitecture firms look East in 2010
When the world’s economies start to move into recovery the architectural landscape will be very different, with this year’s results showing a marked shift of power to the East
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NewsFirst images of Heatherwick's Stockton biomass plant
The first images of the Thomas Heatherwick-designed biomass power plant in north-east England have been released.
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NewsRogers' British Museum extension gets planning
Work on Rogers Stirk Harbour’s £135 million British Museum extension is set to begin next month after the controversial scheme was approved last night by Camden Council.
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NewsGraeme Massie wins Reykjavik harbour masterplan competition
Graeme Massie Architects has won a £37,000 competition to masterplan the Old Harbour of Reykjavik and Orfirisey in Iceland.
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Top global architects lose 10% of staff in 2009
BD’s new World Architecture rankings reveal recession’s savage bite