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Eleven on superlab shortlist
Grimshaw, Hopkins Architects, NBBJ and Sheppard Robson are competing to design a world-class, £500 million “super-laboratory” in central London.
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NewsFlorida school board rejects McAslan’s ‘illegal’ design
RMJM usurps winning entry for Rudolph’s Riverview High School
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NewsComing up on bdonline next week
Today’s paper issue of BD is the last of the year, but it’s business as usual on bdonline all next week.
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NewsWestminster council votes to demolish Pimlico School
Last ditch attempt by Rogers, Prasad and Bayley fails to save Bancroft’s Pimlico School
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Architects come to aid of Crisis
Architecture for Humanity is working with Crisis Open Christmas to provide a warm welcome for homeless people staying at crisis centres over Christmas.
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NewsSHL scoops Sheffield scheme
Schmidt Hammer Lassen has won an international invited competition to design a mixed-use scheme in north Sheffield featuring a new public square, library, homes and shops.
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Sustrans scoops Big Lottery prize
The Sustrans’ Connect 2 project has scooped the £50 million Big Lottery Fund prize after securing the most votes in a massive public telephone and internet poll, televised on ITV.
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Niemeyer unveils major arts plan
Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, 100 years old tomorrow, has unveiled plans for a huge new arts building that will place the small Spanish city of Avilés, a former steel hub, at the heart of a international cultural network.
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NewsArmitt quits chief Gateway role
Thames Gateway chief executive Judith Armitt (right) has resigned just two weeks after Gordon Brown announced a plan for the region including a £9 billion investment.
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NewsCrab emerges on the shores of Lake Maggiore
Peter Cook and Gavin Robotham’s Crab Studio has won a competition to design this new municipal theatre in Verbania, on the shores of Lake Maggiore in Italy.
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Homeowners give new estates thumbs down
Almost a third of homeowners living in new housing estates have slammed their environments as characterless.
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NewsMUMA triumphs in Bath arts contest
McInnes Usher McKnight Architects (MUMA) has triumphed in a head-to-head with Tony Fretton Architects for Bath University’s new arts complex.
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NewsGoing local in Muscat
Foster & Partners’ latest scheme is the masterplan for a new coastal city near Muscat in Oman reflecting traditional Omani architecture.
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NewsHotel hangout
This Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners-designed proposal for the Berkeley Hotel site in Knightsbridge, central London, has won the backing of Westminster City Council’s planning committee.
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NewsCameron launches green energy policy
Conservative leader David Cameron has outlined new plans for a “decentralised energy” revolution.
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Purnell gives museums £100m
More than £100 million is to be devoted to maintaining the assets of government-sponsored museums over the next three years, the Department for Culture, Media & Sport has announced.
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NewsTbilisi tower design revealed
GMW Architects has unveiled its competition-winning design (right) for a £20 million mixed-use building in Tbilisi, Georgia.
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Stop opposing bill, urges RTPI
The Royal Town Planning Institute is urging green groups to stop opposing the planning bill.
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NewsSumeray to lead GBC strategy
Jeremy Sumeray is to become the UK Green Building Council’s director of strategy from January.
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