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Buildings vie for stamp of approval
It might be little more than a piece of sticky paper, but the humble postage stamp is set to provide architects with the kind of publicity money can’t buy.
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NewsJubilee celebration
After a string of failed schemes, the Jubilee Gardens are all set for a long-awaited revamp.
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EH staff walk out over derisory pay deal
Nearly 500 members of English Heritage staff went on a summer solstice strike this week to protest against a “derisory” pay offer as well as the non-replacement of retiring staff.
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Flooding Eden
A team including BDP is aiming to recreate the Garden of Eden in war-torn Iraq.BDP’s head of sustainability, Trevor Butler, has won a competition with three Canadian architects of Iraqi origin — Sahar Rassam, Riadh Tappuni and Sal Tappuni — and Canadian Richard Kroeker to design a research centre and ...
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NewsHit and miss
- Waring & Netts has won a competition for the £750,000 refurbishment of Pelaw metro station (pictured) near Gateshead. The practice used the Jubilee line extension as inspiration for its design.- CZWG’s plans for the Almeida Village in Islington have been rejected by the council’s planning committee. But developer Sager ...
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- Artist Richard Wentworth (above) will be in conversation with Joe Kerr at Tate Modern on Thursday June 30. The event is part of the Elements of Architecture series and will take place in the Starr Auditorium at Tate Modern at 6.30pm. Tickets are £7 (£5 concessions), booking is recommended. ...
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Power play
- Nicholas Lacey, director at Nicholas Lacey & Partners, burst out laughing in disbelief and shock when he was told that a group of MPs had proposed to send “yob” families to live in specially designed steel containers following the reported success of a similar initiative in Kamper, Netherlands. Lacey, ...
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NewsScience revival
A month after the opening of her BMW plant at Leipzig, the interiors of Zaha Hadid’s next major scheme have been revealed. The Phaeno Science Centre is located in Wolfsburg, Germany — a city that already boasts significant buildings by Aalto, Scharoun and Schweger.
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Herzog scents success
As one half of the architectural dream team behind Tate Modern and Munich’s new football stadium, Jacques Herzog is well used to the smell of success.
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Academy on hold after sponsor pulls funding
Designs by Swanke Hayden Connell for a city academy in Islington, north London, have been put on hold.
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60k homes contest is hit by delay
The government competition to build a £60,000 house has been delayed by two weeks because architects and developers were over-stretched by the tight deadline and demanding brief.
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Irish gallery tipped for Stirling Prize
An art gallery in Ireland drew the most admiring glances at the RIBA awards last Friday, as Cork Lewis Gluckman gallery at the University became an early frontrunner for the Stirling Prize.
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John McAslan & Partners
John McAslan & Partners’ £225 million masterplan for the University of Manchester includes a £40 million student centre (left).
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NewsFarrells sea view
Terry Farrell & Partners has revealed designs for an £80 million seafront development in Weymouth.
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Homebuyers not swayed by design
Only five per cent of house purchasers are influenced by the type and design of the dwelling, a study from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has revealed.
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...Teachers must be given more say in school design
The Private Finance Initiative must be transformed to allow teachers more say in the design of new schools, says a leading education advisory body.
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NewsSpotcheck: Yorkshire & Humberside
Media demolition The original St Peter Buildings in Huddersfield are to be demolished and replaced by business accommodation for the city’s expanding media centre. The former YMCA building will escape demolition and be integrated into the £3 million scheme financed by regional development agency Yorkshire Forward. A developer for the ...
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NewsWill Better Building be a road again?
Another road has been shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Better Building award, which was announced last night by architecture minister David Lammy as part of the launch of Architecture Week.