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NewsOMA rings the changes with Hamburg harbour redevelopment - images
Rem Koolhaas’ latest twist on high-rise design – a ring-shaped structure formed of ten modular interlinked blocks– has been announced as part of Hamburg’s major harbour redevelopment, Hafencity.
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NewsMake’s mark on Sheffield
Make celebrated its fourth anniversary this week with the unveiling of this mixed-use scheme in Sheffield.
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NewsCity towers in turmoil following share slump
New landmarks in doubt as recession looms, but SEW bags Tower 42 revamp
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EH to push energy cuts in old homes
English Heritage has teamed up with a leading energy company to find ways of adapting Victorian and Edwardian homes to make them more energy efficient.
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NewsCulloden memorial centre open
Gareth Hoskins Architects has revealed its new £7 million Culloden Battlefield Memorial Centre near Inverness.
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NewsRevelation enrages Smithfield inquiry
Plans to replace part of Smithfield Market with a KPF-designed office scheme suffered a new blow this week after it emerged that developer Thornfield recently bought a car park in the market’s basement but failed to declare it.
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NewsRIBA told: time for a woman president
Royal Town Planning Institute president, Janet O’Neill, has called for the RIBA to follow the organisation’s lead and ensure female architects reach the very top of their profession.
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Obesity role for design
Architects working in England will be eligible to receive special training under the government’s £372 million strategy to tackle obesity, unveiled this week.
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NewsChallenge to Foster in Shoreditch
Action group proposes own scheme to save popular high street bar
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NewsHeneghan Peng shortlisted for Manchester masterplan
Dublin-based practice Heneghan Peng is in the running against KPF, BDP and Arup Design to masterplan an 8ha site in central Manchester.
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NewsHome from home M-hotel aims to end isolation of long-term guests
Architect Tim Pyne has unveiled his new concept in self-catering hotels, the M-hotel.
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NewsCouncil sues over illegal work to Putney Bridge
Disgraced architect Clifford Gardner could face jail after drilling holes in listed bridge
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NewsMurray and Dunlop scoop Glasgow hotel
Gordon Murray & Alan Dunlop Architects has beaten Make and RMJM to land a high-rise, five-star hotel commission for a riverside site in central Glasgow’s new financial services district.
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NewsForeign Office redevelops Toulouse's Aerospace Valley
Foreign Office Architects, in a joint venture with developer Altarea-Cogedim, has seen off competition from OMA and Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners for this £450 million, 40ha, mixed-use project in Toulouse’s Aerospace Valley.
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Savaged Stratford scheme approved
A controversial Stock Woolstencroft scheme in Stratford, east London, has finally won planning permission despite being slammed twice by Cabe for being a potential blot on the Olympic landscape.
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NewsProuvé of the pudding
This flat-pack “maison tropicale” by French architect Jean Prouvé, who died in 1984, has been rebuilt in front of the Tate Modern on London’s South Bank.
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Edaw nets Coney Island redesign
Edaw has triumphed in a competition to redesign Steeplechase Plaza at Coney Island, New York.
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Slump in client building enquiries
Client enquiries for all types of building work have fallen to the lowest levels since 2005, according to the Federation of Master Builders.
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NewsBovis’s King goes to Candy & Candy
Former Bovis Lend Lease project commercial director Rod King has joined luxury developer and interior designer Candy & Candy as commercial director.
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NewsMile End brewery site to house flats
Chris Dyson Architects has won planning permission for this four- storey residential development in a conservation area in Mile End, east London.