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NewsWorld of water
Work has begun on this £9 million HQ by Faulkner Brown Architects for Essex & Suffolk Water in Chelmsford, Essex.
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Bauhaus launches social housing prize
The Bauhaus has launched a social housing award for young architects based on the projects that made the design school’s name in its 1920s heyday.
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Eco-towns role for new agency
The Homes & Communities Agency will take a key role in the creation of Gordon Brown’s 10 eco-towns, the government has revealed.
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NewsDevelopment body goes to Gill
Liverpool Vision chief executive Jim Gill is to head up Liverpool’s new economic development company.
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Welsh aqueduct’s world status bid
Culture secretary James Purnell has nominated Wales’ Pontcysyllte aqueduct and canal for Unesco world heritage site status.
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NewsLeicester Square gets a makeover
Westminster council has unveiled its £18.5 million redesign for central London’s Leicester Square.
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Stirling and Gowan's Leicester University faces demolition
NEWS: Stirling and Gowan's seminal modernist building could be partially demolished OPINION: Can passion save our iconic 20th century buildings?
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NewsGehry to design 2008 Serpentine Summer Pavilion
Frank Gehry is to design this year’s Serpentine Pavilion, the gallery has revealed. The temporary structure, which will be on site for three months this summer, will be Gehry’s first built structure in England, in accordance with the Serpentine’s rules on selecting architects for the annual pavilions.Gallery director Julia Peyton-Jones ...
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NewsAaron Betsky to curate Venice Biennale
Aaron Betsky has been appointed director of the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale. Betsky, director of the Cincinnati Art Museum in the United States and former director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute of Rotterdam, will curate the festival on the theme “Architecture Beyond Building”. The eleventh international architecture exhibition will include ...
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NewsZaha Hadid's double win in Michigan and Warsaw
Zaha Hadid Architects wins competitions for Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum in Michigan and Lilium Tower in Warsaw
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NewsSMC shareholders approve issue of £15m in new shares
SMC Group shareholders yesterday gave the green light for the release of new shares worth more than £15 million to cover payments due to the group’s own practices.During an extraordinary general meeting, shareholders voted in favour of a set of proposals that will see 188 million new shares created, increasing ...
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NewsFerguson blasts KPF's "gargantuan" Smithfield plans
Former RIBA president George Ferguson has thrown his weight behind English Heritage’s objections to the redevelopment of Smithfield Market.Giving evidence on Wednesday at the public inquiry into KPF's controversial scheme, Ferguson blasted proposals to demolish the General Market building and replace it with a structure he described as “gargantuan” in ...
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NewsUnesco refutes claims of Gazprom tower u-turn
Unesco has strongly denied press reports that it no longer has concerns about the impact of RMJM’s 396m-high Gazprom tower in St Petersburg and claims it has been misrepresented.Francesco Bandarin, who heads Unesco’s World Heritage Centre division, said: “I never said any of these things, nor did my associates, and ...
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NewsWallace Collection seeks designer to transform museum entrance
A new competition has been launched to redesign the entrance to London’s famous museum the Wallace Collection.The project aims to transform the main entrance to the museum’s grade II-listed building Hertford House in Londons' Manchester Square and involves working with architect Purcell Miller Tritton.The Wallace Collection is a national Museum ...
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NewsCabe’s architecture centre funding ‘penalises success’
Fury as Open House and New London Architecture grants are slashed in favour of regions
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NewsHeatherwick to act as contractor on own job
Practice says move will lead to better build and ‘liberate working methods’
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NewsGateway to culture
Planning permission has been granted for a project by Alison Brooks Architects — part of a scheme by Urban Splash believed to be Liverpool’s biggest-ever residential development.
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NewsFarrell blasts Edinburgh waterfront
Design champion calls on council to grasp waterfront opportunities