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Henry Moore Square opens
A public square by Hudson Architects has opened at the heart of the world’s first televised regeneration project.
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NewsSpire of Hope set on Cathedral
The 40-tonne new Spire of Hope by Belfast firm Colin Conn & Robert Jamieson Architects has been erected on the roof of the city’s St Anne’s Cathedral.
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NewsMore open Arb scraps near-miss exam resits
Arb has reformed its hated exams for foreign architects amid signs of a new mood of openness at the regulator.
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Architects rebuke Lammy
NEWS: Architecture minister's criticisms of housing architects dismissed as "playing to the gallery"DEBATE: Are architects really to blame for soulless housing estates?
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Calatrava in Chicago
NEWS: Calatrava wins permission to build America's tallest tower. COMPETITION: Win a copy of Taschen's blockbuster review of Calatrava's work.
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The EH brain drain
The number of house architects at English Heritage has plummeted by 40% in just three years. Read our exclusive news report and find out where BD stands on the issue.
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NewsFoster signs deal with 3i
Mouzhan Majidi is new chief executive as practice prepares to expand worldwide
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NewsNorthampton defers decision over Pyramid
BD reports the stalling of Jeremy Dixon and Ed Jones controversial county hall building in May 1974
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NewsCalatrava's Chicago Spire wins consent
Santiago Calatrava has won planning permission for his Chicago Spire - a 610m skyscraper set to become the tallest in the United States.Chicago City Council's approval of the plans means that the twisting 150-storey tower will unseat the Sears Tower as the country's tallest building when it is completed in ...
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NewsThe completion of Manchester's new justice centre
Denton Corker Marshall’s landmark £113 million Manchester Civil Justice Centre will finally be completed this month, just as client Department of Constitutional Affairs (DCA) is swallowed up by the newly created Department of Justice.The 34,000sq m new court facility at the Spinningfields development in west Manchester is the biggest court ...
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Can architects read the smoke signals?
Will cheap, bolt-on shelters clutter up the streets once the smoking ban is extended to England in July?
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NewsGasholders set to scupper CZWG housing development
A flagship 730-unit residential development by the Peabody Trust and architect CZWG is set to be scrapped because of safety fears, BD has learnt.
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NewsFoster & Partners to build green city in Abu Dhabi
The emirate aims to build the world's first zero-carbon, zero-waste metropolis
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Shops and offices must go zero carbon says housing minister
A new government task force is to set deadlines for emissions cuts for non-residential buildings
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NewsNews Junkie: 5 and 6 May
This week: Black Death in our wheelie bins, bingo halls in the ashtray of history, and Nigel's apparently the only gay in the media village...
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NewsExperts slam wasteful housing competitions
Thousands of days worth of work by British architects is being squandered under the government’s massive housebuilding drive, Britain’s largest housing practice claims.
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NewsZumthor chapel is in a field of its own
This month sees the long-awaited completion of the Peter Zumthor-designed Bruder Klaus field chapel.
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NewsGeorgian Group is now estate agent too
Heritage organisation hopes selling to the ‘right hands’ will pre-empt questionable planning applications
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NewsCharles: act now on climate change
Prince Charles has issued a call to arms to business professionals to take action on climate change, declaring the situation a state of “emergency.”