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Competition boycott call met with silence
Rem Koolhaas’s call for architects to boycott the competition system (News January 5) has met with deafening silence from his fellow star practitioners, but sparked a fierce debate on the archinect.com discussion board.
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Cabe backs crossroads for Sloane Square
Cabe has endorsed Stanton Williams’s plans to transform Sloane Square in Knightsbridge by replacing the gyratory with a staggered crossroads.
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NewsBanged up with Alsop
Will Alsop’s Creative Prisons exhibition opens at the Architecture Foundation’s Yard Gallery on Old Street, London, on January 19.
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NewsIce age two
Hugh Broughton Architects and Faber Maunsell have reached the final two in a competition to design an Indian research base for the Antartic. The pair’s designs are similar to those that won the RIBA competition for a UK research base.
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Big names shortlisted to design Nicosia art gallery
The RIBA has announced a star-studded shortlist for its competition to design an £8 million art gallery in central Cyprus.
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US tower engineer teams up to open London office
The engineer behind the world’s tallest building, Thornton Tomasetti, has opened a London office.
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NewsRem demands boycott
Koolhaas campaigns to overhaul star-studded design competitions after Gazprom HQ controversy
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NewsHpod set to radically change hospital design
Nightingale Associates is to put a decades’ worth of research into the healing aspects of design to the test, under a unique project also involving the Building Centre, Arup and electronics giant Philips.
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Haringey council axes its architects
Switch to design-and-build blamed for architect redundancies
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NewsPortsmouth John Lewis revised after protests
Designs for a flagship John Lewis department store in the centre of Portsmouth have been substantially revised after earlier efforts were slammed by local architecture and civic groups.
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NewsRichard Murphy receives OBE in New Year’s list
Leading Scottish architect Richard Murphy has made a surprise appearance on the New Year’s honours list having won an OBE for services to architecture.
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NewsChina bright
These designs by SMC Alsop are for a unique power station proposed at Dongtan in China — the world’s largest eco-city.
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Brown will be biggest influence this year
Chancellor Gordon Brown has topped BD’s list of the 50 public figures who will wield the greatest influence over architecture in 2007.
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Barajas bomb blast hits Rogers’ terminal
Richard Rogers’ Stirling Prize-winning Terminal 4 at Madrid Barajas airport sustained superficial damage in the terrorist bombing last Saturday, which authorities believe killed two men. However, most of the building was open to passengers the next day after access routes were cleared of debris.
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NewsCanterbury’s green wings
Architects Design Partnership has submitted this design for a flagship building for Canterbury Christ Church University to planners.
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NewsChipperfield’s ‘car park’ flats rejected
David Chipperfield has been sent back to the drawing board to revise designs for his largest commission in the UK to date.
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NewsThe heart of the matter
English Partnerships has appointed Elliot Lipton’s First Base to create the Heart of East Greenwich project in south-east London, with designs by Make.
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BSF gathers speed as schools contracts are let
Aedas with Balfour Beatty has been appointed to design seven new schools for Knowsley Council’s £150 million Building Schools for the Future programme.