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NewsKoolhaas wins competition to restore Commonwealth Institute
Rem Koolhaas and Reinier de Graaf of Dutch firm OMA are set to restore London’s iconic Commonwealth Institute building in Kensington, having beaten competition from architects including Rafael Viñoly, Eric Parry and Caruso St John.
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NewsOlympic site will become London’s largest park for a century
The Olympic Delivery Authority has unveiled plans to convert London’s Olympic site into the largest new urban park in London since the Victorian era, following the end of the 2012 games.The plans, designed by LDA Design and US-based landscape designer George Hargreaves, will also promote more sustainable and active lifestyles ...
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NewsBlears calls in Simpson’s 51-storey Beetham Tower
Hazel Blears has called in Ian Simpson’s Beetham Tower, planned for a prominent site on London’s South Bank. In a call-in letter sent to Southwark council on Monday (March 10), the communities secretary questioned whether the proposed location of the One Blackfriars Road tower, close to the banks of the ...
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NewsUK architects seek to modernise Paris
British-based architects including Zaha Hadid, Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners, Michel Mossessian and Think Place are competing to lead one of 10 multi- disciplinary teams tasked with creating a future vision for Paris.
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NewsPlasma scoops Next Generation award
East London-based practice wins prestigious BD-sponsored title
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NewsUrban Splash hires Hoskins for Cardross regeneration
Developer Urban Splash has hired Gareth Hoskins Architects to develop regeneration ideas for one of Scotland’s most important modernist buildings, St Peter’s Seminary in Cardross.
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NewsHOK Sport's champion design for Lyon FC
HOK Sport unveiled its designs for Olympique Lyonnais’s new 60,000-seat stadium at the Mipim property fair in Cannes this week.
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NewsIsland plan goes back to nature
Levitate Architecture & Design Studio has beaten AOC, Flacq and Richards Partington Architects in a joint Urban Splash/RIBA competition for Birnbeck Island and the grade II* listed pier at Weston-super-Mare.
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Big names set to join Circle’s healthcare framework
Health Properties Management, the development arm of UK-wide private healthcare operator Circle, has revealed that it is looking to sign more high-profile firms up to its hospitals panel.
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NewsQueen opens Rogers’ T5 – images
Twenty years after it first went in for planning Richard Rogers Terminal Five building at Heathrow airport will finally be opened by the Queen.
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Capita Symonds buys up Lovejoy
Capita Symonds has bought one of the UK’s largest multi-disciplinary consultancies, Lovejoy, for an undisclosed sum.
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NewsOMA unveils Dubai development
OMA Architects has revealed its masterplan for a 12 million sq m waterfront development in Dubai.
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Darling cash boosts green housing
Chancellor Alistair Darling has announced that he will pour £26 million into the government’s Green Homes Service from next year in a bid to improve the sustainability credentials of the UK’s housing stock.
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Artists oppose Foster’s scheme
Artists Tracy Emin, Dinos Chapman and Rachel Whiteread have joined the campaign opposing the redevelopment of Bishop’s Place, between Shoreditch and Brick Lane in east London, masterplanned by Foster & Partners for Hammerson.
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NewsConcrete creates elegant pavilion
The Architectural Association’s pavilion at Bedford Square in London opened on Thursday 13 March.
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NewsMartin Pawley dies
Martin Pawley, architect, critic, teacher, and a former editor of BD, died on Sunday aged 69, after a long illness.
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Bid to stop Jewish charity dinner
Charles Jencks, Eva Jiricna and recent RIBA gold medal winner Ted Cullinan are among 45 architects who have signed a letter calling for the cancellation of a dinner at Windsor Castle in aid of a Jewish charity, claiming the organisations is oppressing Palestinians through construction work.
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News‘Delighted’ Edinburgh champions Farrell
Terry Farrell will remain as Edinburgh City Council’s design champion, despite earlier rumours that the local authority was poised to scrap the position.
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NewsDuggan Morris victory at Mersey Observatory
Duggan Morris Architects is to design the new Mersey Observatory in Crosby after seeing off competition from Studio 8, Phos Architects, Farrell & Clark, and Ellis Williams Architects.