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Will Hurst in New York
BD's News Editor, Will Hurst, crosses the pond to the Big Apple to talk to key figures in the Manhattan architecture scene. Discovering how Manhattan architects are weathering the credit crunch and seeing for himself how the World Trade Centre site is ticking along, Will discovers that builders are really ...
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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.
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NewsPiersland adds bedroom pavilion
Lawrence McPherson Associates has received planning permission for a garden pavilion at Scottish country hotel Piersland House Hotel near Troon, Ayrshire.
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Move to get rid of student ghettos
The government has called for new planning mechanisms to tackle the overconcentration of student housing in neighbourhoods.
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NewsLiam O’Connor’s structure at the National Memorial Arboretum is 43m in diameter.
A major armed forces memorial at Alrewas, near Lichfield in Staffordshire, has been voted the UK’s favourite Lottery-funded heritage project.
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NewsLuxury homes go underground
Thomas de Cruz Architects has won planning permission for two 500sq m houses in west London.
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M&S wins highest Breeam rating
3D Reid’s design for a Glasgow branch of Marks & Spencer has achieved the highest-ever Breeam retail fit-out rating.
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Homes expo has 12 on shortlist
DRMM, Fat and Sarah Wigglesworth Architects are among 12 practices shortlisted for the RIBA’s Scotswood Expo architectural competition.
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NewsWho will get the wooden spoon in BD’s Carbuncle Cup this year?
BD’s Carbuncle Cup is to the Stirling Prize what the Razzies are to the Oscars. So while the RIBA searches for architecture’s most sublime, we uncover its most reviled. Here’s the 2008 shortlist chosen from your nominations
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Board restructuring defended
Arb chairman Mike Starling has defended proposed changes to the structure of Arb’s board (News September 28).
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NewsCorb season takes off in Liverpool
The RIBA’s Le Corbusier season kicked off this week with the opening in Liverpool of Le Corbusier: the Art of Architecture exhibition in Edwin Lutyens’ crypt at the city’s Metropolitan Cathedral.
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Land extension shortlist revealed
Norman Foster and Daniel Libeskind are in the lead to win an £8 billion project to extend Monaco out to sea.
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NewsThree on Ebbsfleet Landmark list
Three artists — Daniel Buren, Richard Deacon and Mark Wallinger — have been shortlisted to create the £2 million Ebbsfleet Landmark, the largest public art commission since Antony Gormley’s Angel of the North.
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Ministers review Scots watchdog
The Scottish government is to review the work of its design watchdog, Architecture & Design Scotland, looking at policy, financial management and remit.
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Architects vulnerable to claims as economy slows
Architects have become a “natural target” for litigation by cash-strapped clients due to the worsening economic climate and rising professional indemnity insurance premiums, experts have claimed.
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NewsDuggan Morris aims for brew of old and new at Sussex oast house
Plans for an unusual oast house conversion in an area of outstanding natural beauty have been unveiled by Duggan Morris Architects.
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NewsNew look at the Temple
Proposals for a mixed-use development near London’s Temple Station by Wilkinson Eyre and Horden Cherry Lee have been submitted for planning.
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NewsFunding blow could cancel Castleford Forum plans
Niall McLaughlin Architects’ ambitious scheme for a new museum, library and community building in the West Yorkshire town of Castleford has been turned down for lottery funding for a second time.
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NewsGovernment fails on pledge for good design
BD and British Council survey reveals depth of architects’ despair over UK housing policy
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NewsYaya longlist unveiled
There are 25 architects on the long list for BD’s 2008 Young Architect of the Year Award, sponsored by Autodesk.