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£1,000 prize for Georgian drawing
The RIBA’s traditional architecture group has teamed up with The Georgian Group and the Prince of Wales’s drawing school to launch a competition to create a measured drawing of a Georgian building.
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NewsFirst associate directors at firm
Eric Parry Architects has announced the appointment of two associate directors, Roz Barr and Justin Sayer (pictured) and six associates.
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£102m business park commission
Scott Brownrigg Architects has been commissioned to design a business and technology park in south Hampshire for Countryside Properties.
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NewsSchool turns up volume to mark its 450th anniversary
Birmingham architect Michael Payne Group is to design a £3 million music centre for Solihull School, which will mark the school’s 450th anniversary in 2010.
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NewsProfession calls for action on OFT cartel allegations
Leading figures in the architecture profession have called for a full inquiry after the Office of Fair Trading alleged that 112 construction companies had been involved in the rigging of bids for major projects.
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NewsLeading architects fail to save Welsh school
Newport High School set to be demolished after appeal by figures including Zaha Hadid and Peter Cook fails
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New Covent Garden Market architects unveiled
Foster & Partners and Neil Tomlinson Architects have been revealed as the architects selected to redevelop the New Covent Garden Market site near Battersea Power station.The team will develop and deliver a new design for market facilities and infrastructure for the Covent Garden Market Authority (CGMA) in a project led ...
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NewsOmbudsman rejects complaints over Highland Housing Fair
One of the country's most exciting housing schemes has received a huge boost after accusations of maladministration were officially rejected.BD reported in February that the Highland Housing Fair, to be built near Inverness, was being investigated by the Scottish Public Service Ombudsman over claims that it had not properly followed ...
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NewsIan Ritchie dropped from Southwark's Potters Field housing scheme
Architect Ian Ritchie has been dropped from Berkley Homes' prominent Potters Field housing scheme near Tower Bridge.The decision was announced last night (Monday) by Southwark Council, which recently signed a co-operation agreement with Berkeley Homes after years of opposing the developer's scheme. The council said a new architect would be ...
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NewsDesign for London shortlists 40 practices for framework panel
Design for London has shortlisted more than 40 practices for its forthcoming framework panel including Marks Barfield, Foster & Partners, Studio Egret West and David Chipperfield.The shortlist, which attracted more than 180 submissions, is competing to be named on DFL's Architecture, Landscape and Urban Design panel, plans for which were ...
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NewsCouncil admits it has not costed Robin Hood Gardens refurbishment
Tower Hamlets Council has admitted it has not fully costed the refurbishment of Robin Hood Gardens, despite its repeated claims that demolition is the most economic option.
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NewsTories propose chief architect as national design champion
Government says position is unnecessary since Cabe already does the job ‘brilliantly’
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Hadid wins Vilnius Guggenheim
Zaha Hadid has won the competition to design the new Guggenheim-Hermitage Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania, beating Daniel Libeskind and Massimiliano Fuksas.
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NewsAA pavilion marks 10 years of design research lab
Alumni of the Architectural Association have completed an innovative pavilion designed to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the school's design research lab.The competition-winning scheme, which sits outside the AA's Bedford Square premises, was designed by 2002 graduate Alan Dempsey and Alvin Huang of the class of 2004. It was developed ...
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NewsMoscow goes fruity
Foster & Partners has revealed its latest scheme in Russia, a bold mixed-use building for central Moscow, dubbed Project Orange.
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NewsRIBA backs down as Freemasons defy rule
RIBA president Sunand Prasad seeks compromise after new rule on declaring affiliations fails
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NewsFoster’s Orange would squash Soviet masterpiece
Russian architecture experts have condemned an iconic design by Norman Foster because it involves the replacement of a Soviet-era building considered by some as the “best in Moscow”.