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NewsWhy this change matters
Today we are asking you to confront a shameful truth: the shocking ratio of women to men in architecture. Fewer than one in seven architects are women. They make up 14% of the profession when they should be 50%.
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NewsSexism: the real life story
A culture of long-hours coupled with sexism makes it hard to combine motherhood with being an architect
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NewsArchitects unite for rebuild effort
Tsunami disaster presents design challenge for world’s architects
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NewsProfession hit by tsunami tragedy
A trainee architect died in the tsunami disaster and his girlfriend is missing, feared dead.
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Hutchinson spurred on by narrow escape
A leading architect escaped death in the Asian tsunami and spent two days hiding in the jungle.
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Grimshaw and Mowlem unite in new Bath spa investigation
The stalemate between contractor Mowlem and architect Grimshaw over the troubled Bath Spa project appears to have been broken as the two mounted a new investigation into continuing faults.
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Holyrood haunts Scots court project
A £134 million redevelopment of Scotland’s Supreme Court building, Parliament House, has been dramatically frozen amid fears of a second Holyrood debacle.
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NewsRichard Feilden dies in accident
The soaring success of Feilden Clegg Bradley Architects was thrown into tragic perspective on Monday when the practice leader and “inspiration”, Richard Feilden, was killed in a freak accident near his home.
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Cambridge Christmas present
The future of architecture at Cambridge University looked secure this week as the head of the department claimed to have a personal guarantee from vice chancellor Alison Richard that the department would not be closed.
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NewsHadids marvel of Marseille
Zaha Hadid has won a commission to design her first major corporate headquarters. Hadid will design a 100m-high office tower for shipping company CMA-CGM in Marseille, France. The project was developed in conjunction with Marseille urban renewal agency Euromediterrane and is the first time the agency has worked with a ...
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Sorrell takes chair at Cabe
John Sorrell’s flirtation with architecture became a full-on affair on Monday when he was confirmed as chairman of the Commission for Architecture & the Built Environment, as predicted in BD last week.
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Explosive first for Belfast block
The people of Belfast are celebrating the first legal explosion of a building in the city after the 1960s Churchill House office block was demolished last week.
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MJP loses three key directors
Boardroom changes at MacCormac Jamieson Prichard (MJP) will see three of its most senior staff leave the practice in the new year.
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NewsToilet trouble
French designer Philippe Starck has picked up some of the English potty humour since moving to the UK last year.
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EH barricades City spread
English Heritage is set to list at least 30 buildings on the fringes of London’s Square Mile in a bid to protect the land from the City of London’s ambitious development plans, BD can reveal.