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NewsThree shortlisted for RIBA's Lubetkin Prize
Three architects have been shortlisted for RIBA’s Lubetkin prize for the most outstanding work of architecture outside the UK and the European Union by an RIBA member.
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Competition launched to design public square for King's Cross station
Camden Council and Network Rail have launched an RIBA competition to design a new public square at King’s Cross in central London.
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NewsDynamic Architecture creates rotating tower for Dubai
Italian-Israeli architect David Fisher has unveiled plans for the latest eye-popping skyscraper in Dubai – a 68-storey, rotating tower.
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NewsLondon mayor set to ditch Rogers as adviser
London mayor Boris Johnson has indicated that Labour peer Richard Rogers is unlikely to continue as the city’s adviser on architecture and urbanism under his administration.Speaking at City Hall on Wednesday, Johnson said: “I’ll certainly be maintaining the role of an adviser on architecture or urbanism, but you’ll have to ...
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NewsArchitects get ready to wobble
Architects Will Alsop, Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners and Foster & Partners lead the shortlist for the 2008 Architectural Jelly Design Competition – part of the 2008 London Festival of Architecture.
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NewsStarck-designed second homes win planning permission
Planning permission has been granted for the expansion of a prestigious second-home development by yoo, Philippe Starck’s housing venture with John Hitchcox, co-founder of Manhattan Loft Corporation.
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NewsLe Corbusier's Ronchamp chapel stirs passions online
An online war is pitting some of the biggest names in world architecture against each other in a bid to influence the French Minister of Culture over the future of Le Corbusier’s world famous Ronchamp chapel.
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NewsEIB takes quantum leap
The European Union’s international financing arm, The European Investment Bank, will this week unveil its new 10-storey headquarters in Kirchberg, Luxembourg, designed by German architect Ingenhoven.
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NewsLiving Steel shortlist announced
British architects make up three of the 12 teams shortlisted for Living Steel’s third International Architecture Competition for Sustainable Housing.
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NewsCabe pylon unveiled in Birmingham
Cabe’s first ever commission – a 29m-high, nickel-plated pylon – has been unveiled in Birmingham.
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NewsReed blasts RIBA with London bias jibe
Presidential hopeful courts regions with outspoken attack on “London-centric” institute
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NewsSoftroom sweeps into Merseyside
Softroom has won planning permission for its first bridge project, Pennington Road footbridge in Bootle, Merseyside.
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BSF boosted by new design director role
The role of design within the government’s £45 billion Building Schools for the Future programme is set to be boosted thanks to a raft of reforms including a powerful new architect role within delivery body Partnerships for Schools.
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Towers face two-for-one inquiry fate
The fate of two of London’s most significant tower projects will be decided together at a single public inquiry, it has emerged.
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NewsAberdeen’s inside deal
Scottish architect Holmes Partnership has submitted plans for its £80 million redevelopment of Marischal College to Aberdeen City Council.
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NewsHadid goes to top in battle for estate
Zaha Hadid has made an impassioned plea to the government to list Robin Hood Gardens, promising to write to prime minister Gordon Brown’s wife Sarah Brown as well as architecture minister Margaret Hodge before its fate is decided.
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SMC healthy — but cautious over cuts
SMC managing director Chris Littlemore has painted a rosy future for the huge listed practice, but vowed to continue its ongoing cost-cutting and rationalisation drive amid new contract negotiations with staff.
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NewsBattle for Bath skyline hots up
Ex-RIBA president George Ferguson joins push for tall buildings policy