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NewsZaha in human rights row over Azerbaijan project
Soviet experts have criticised a cultural centre designed by Zaha Hadid Architects in memory of a former KGB chief and ruler of Azerbaijan.
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Council relaunches Birmingham library project
The race to design the troubled £193 million Birmingham Library has begun after the city council published an advertisement in the Ojeu.
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NewsArup Sport wins Singapore hub
Arup Sport has won the competition to design Singapore’s new “sports hub”, the world’s largest private-public sports project.
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Architecture schools to combine
Edinburgh’s two architecture schools are to join forces to create a “super-school”.
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DfL seeks framework tenders
Expressions of interest are being sought from architects and other professionals for a new framework panel for the mayor’s Design for London.
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NewsWorsley travel fellowship formed
The RIBA and the British School at Rome (BSR) have created a travel fellowship in memory of architectural historian and critic Giles Worsley (pictured).
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Stars rising in New York
Buildings: New York's super-rich are driving the fetishisation of architecture Profiles: The four NY practices being showcased by the AF
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Zaha in human rights row
NEWS: Zaha Hadid attacked for Azerbaijan cultural centre OPINION: Where do you draw the line on human rights?
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NewsWilkinson Eyre wins go-ahead for mixed-use towers in Southwark
Wilkinson Eyre has won planning permission for two mixed-use towers on a key site in the London Borough of Southwark. The scheme, at 20 Blackfriars Road, for client Circleplane, is for a 23-storey office tower and a 42-storey residential tower on a corner site just south of Blackfriars bridge.The base ...
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NewsScott, Wigglesworth and Gehl on winning Hull Fruit Market team
Richard Scott of Surface Architects is to lead the redevelopment a key slice of Hull's historic Fruit Market. Also on the team are Sarah Wigglesworth, urbanist Jan Gehl, Irena Bauman of Bauman Lyons, and Grimsby-based Hodson Architects.Hull-born Scott and his team will produce detailed designs for the market's “central development ...
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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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Paul King to chair Think conference
UK Green Building Council chief executive promises "radical thinking on sustainability" at May event
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NewsArup Sport wins Singapore sports complex
British firm Arup Sport has been selected to design Singapore’s new ‘sports hub’, the largest sports PPP project in the world.Working with local firm DP Architects, the Arup Sport consortium beat competition from HOK Sport and former Herzog & de Meuron architect Tim Hupe to land the Premier Park job, ...
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NewsFoster's Shoreditch high rise challenged by rival scheme
Local campaigners commission Willingdale Associates in bid to preserve landmark Light Bar against Foster's Bishops's Place redevelopment
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NewsBDP joint venture wins competition to design Kiev children's hospital
BDPgroupe6, a collaboration between UK practice BDP and French practice Groupe6, has won a competition to design a 250-bed children's hospital in Kiev. The team beat six other practices to design the All Ukrainian Health Protection Centre for Mothers and Children (The Children's Hospital of the Future), after beating six ...
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NewsBdonline holds world's first virtual careers fair
Bdonline makes history this week as we host the world’s first live virtual careers fair
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NewsToday Dubai, tomorrow the Universe
From the developers that gave you “The World” - the coastal archipelago in Dubai of reclaimed islands designed to resemble the continents – comes “The Universe”.The massive waterfront project which, inevitably, draws inspiration from the heavens above, was unveiled by Dubai property giant Nakheel last week.Concept images reveal a ...
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NewsFoster's and Wilkinson Eyre battle for St Petersburg masterplan
Wilkinson Eyre and Foster & Partners will compete for a major masterplanning commission in St Petersburg after beating off strong competition from Dutch megastars Rem Koolhaas and MVRDV and fellow British firm PRP.The two practices will now go head to head to land the commission to develop plans for Apraksin ...
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NewsSix on icon shortlist
New architects for Commonwealth Institute revealed as Foster & Partners is dropped