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NewsZaha Hadid designs Madrid law courts - images
Zaha Hadid has won a competition to design a new civil courts of justice in Madrid.
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NewsBoris accuses Ken of "wrecking London's skyline"
Tory hopeful Boris Johnson has kicked off his mayoral campaign by accusing Ken Livingstone of “wrecking London’s skyline”.Johnson, who was confirmed as official Conservative London mayoral candidate last week, has pushed housing to the top of his campaign agenda, promising to drop the Mayor’s target that 50% of new homes ...
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Sunken Olympic stadium will be "engineering first"
The designers of the 2012 Olympic stadium are proposing sinking parts of the structure up to 20ft into the ground, as the Olympic Delivery Authority promises an “engineering first”. The ODA says it is in the process of finalising designs for the flagship structure and claims that “work is going ...
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NewsZaha Hadid shortlisted for £25,000 Scottish prize
Zaha Hadid will go head to head with Scotland’s top architects in a bid to land this year’s RIAS Andrew Doolan Award.
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NewsArchitecture minister: new housing is ‘awful’
Margaret Hodge says Thames Gateway housing could repeat the mistakes of the seventies
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NewsAdjaye’s arts centre lives out Bernie Grant’s dream
David Adjaye’s £15 million Bernie Grant Arts Centre opened today in Tottenham, north London. The centre was proposed by the late Bernie Grant, who represented Tottenham in parliament before he died in 2000.
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News‘Unsettled’ Cabe considers its future
Chief executive defends performance despite regional panel concerns
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Doubt cast on PM’s eco-towns plan
A leading sustainability expert, whose firm is working on plans for one of Gordon Brown’s first eco-towns, has questioned the viability of the prime minister’s conference pledge to double the number of schemes.
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NewsHolburne extension appeal wins more time
Eric Parry’s controversial Holburne Museum extension proposals have been given a stay of execution after the Heritage Lottery Fund gave the museum more time to convince Bath planners of the £10 million scheme’s merits.
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NewsChipperfield tunes in to Scots’ BBC
BBC Scotland’s new £180 million headquarters building, designed by David Chipperfield, has won the praise of Gordon Brown. Officially opening the building last week, the prime minister described it as a “design classic”.
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NewsMurphy: ‘cynical’ Cala broke contract
‘Bitterly disappointed’ architect says developer used him as trophy
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The winners of Urban Splash's Tutti Frutti terrace competition
NEWS: Ellis Woodman joins Griff Rhys Jones, Will Alsop and a BBC film crew to pick the winning schemes IMAGES: The 20 houses that will make up Britain's most diverse street
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Architecture minister attacks design quality in the Thames Gateway
NEWS: Margaret Hodge says new housing is "awful" OPINION: Minister is right to raise danger of private-led regeneration
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Architecture00 wins the BD/100% Detail Cool Wall contest
NEWS: Architecture00 takes top billing on the Cool Wall IN PICTURES: Images of all ten constestants
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Planners want more green space
The Town & Country Planning Association has called for more green space in urban developments to help combat climate change and flooding.
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NewsHerzog & de Meuron honoured
Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron (pictured) have won the architecture category in the world’s most lucrative art award, the prestigious Japanese Praemium Imperiale.
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DRMM to work on a mobile Tate
De Rijke Marsh Morgan has seen off international rivals to the contract for a feasibility study for a mobile Tate gallery. The practice will also provide design advice for the preliminary stages of the project.
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Perkins & Will opens UK office
Perkins & Will, the second largest architect in the US, has opened its first UK office to handle its work as executive architect on the Merchant Square scheme in Paddington, west London.