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NewsUS to hold competition for new London embassy building
The US Overseas Building Operation is to launch an international competition to design the new premises for the US Embassy in London in the Nine Elms regeneration area in Battersea, South London.
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NewsHadid and Mecanoo win Cityscape awards
Zaha Hadid and Mecanoo were among the winners at the Cityscape Architectural Awards, held in Dubai on Monday.
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NewsMMA Architects wins Curry Stone award
South African practice MMA Architects is the first recipient of the annual $100,000 Curry Stone Design Prize, which awards breakthrough design solutions that respond to areas of need or environmental issues.
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NewsHodge replaced as architecture minister
Margaret Hodge has been replaced as architecture minister in the weekend’s government reshuffle.
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NewsLimited public transport is stunting Dubai’s development, says Livingstone
On the opening day of Cityscape in Dubai, former London mayor Ken Livingstone has said Dubai can not develop as a world financial centre until it has an efficient public transport system.
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NewsDubai plans 1km-high tower
Developer Nakheel this weekend revealed plans for a 1km-high tower in the centre of Dubai, set to eclipse the world’s current tallest tower, the Burj Dubai.
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NewsCraig-Martin portrait of Hadid unveiled at National Portrait Gallery
Zaha Hadid’s fourth appearance in the National Portrait Gallery, unveiled Thursday, could also be called her 1,000,000th as the ever-changing portrait by Michael Craig-Martin will never show the same image twice.
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NewsBoris accused of playing politics with Southwark towers
John Gray, planning inspector of the public inquiry into the Ian Simpson and Wilkinson Eyre towers on London’s South Bank, boosted the case for the two schemes on Thursday when he announced he would not give London mayor Boris Johnson’s objections to them undue weight.
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NewsGough’s Croydon towers vision
CZWG has unveiled these images of the Odalisk — Piers Gough’s tower development set for the centre of Croydon, Surrey.
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Beckett moved to housing in cabinet reshuffle
Margaret Beckett has replaced Caroline Flint as housing minister in today’s government reshuffle.
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Faint praise damns Architecture Week
Future of Architecture Week is questioned again in light of review
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NewsTop names rally to save Seaton Delaval
A roll call of some of Britain’s leading modern architects — from Terry Farrell and Peter Cook to Will Alsop — have backed a National Trust campaign to buy one of John Vanbrugh’s most renowned buildings for public use.
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Parliament Square paving bugged Boris
Plans to pedestrianise Parliament Square had already cost £2 million when London mayor Boris Johnson scrapped the scheme.
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NewsFindlay returns with eco-houses scheme
Kathryn Findlay has returned to practice after three years’ sabbatical, with this residential project in Preston, Lancashire.
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NewsThe Modern House moves into lettings
Estate agent the Modern House, which specialises in the sale of 20th century homes, has launched a new rental service in the face of the country’s dramatic housing slowdown.
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NewsRelax... up on the roof
A contemporary rooftop pavilion and garden for staff at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital has been completed by Spacelab in collaboration with award-winning gardener Andy Sturgeon.
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NewsNew York says work at Ground Zero memorial on track for 2011 opening
Work on Freedom Tower, and Foster, Rogers, Maki towers elsewhere on the site well ahead of schedule
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NewsCabe says Allies & Morrison’s Tower Hamlets masterplan is overdeveloped
Cabe has accused Allies & Morrison of “overdevelopment”, in a review of its masterplan for the St Andrew’s area of Tower Hamlets in London.
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RTKL starts on Jordan project
Planning has begun on a 12ha mixed-use development in Jordan by London-based architect RTKL.