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Gehry: the icon effect is misunderstood
Star architect wades into icon row amid calls for Liverpool resignation
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Extreme weather warning
Architects need to rethink design to deal with climate change, advises government study
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Architects ‘place profit before lives’
An MP campaigning to reduce the number of deaths in the construction industry has called for greater health and safety regulation of architects.
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Staff shortages spark foreign talent search
Practices forced to look abroad as experienced employees stay put
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NewsPsalm to the palm
The icon may be unfashionable in the UK this summer, but it still has life in Tenerife, where Foreign Office Architects has unveiled designs for a £38 million office building for the Canary Island government in Santa Cruz. The project includes office space, cultural attractions and underground parking. The circular ...
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Angry Mandy fumes over revamp of his grandads Festival Hall
Peter Mandelson has waded into plans to improve Royal Festival Hall with strong criticism of Allies & Morrison’s revamp.
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RRP and Wilkinson Eyre up for China towers
The Richard Rogers Partnership and Wilkinson Eyre have both been shortlisted in a competition to design one of two new towers in Guangzhou, China.
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Disabled campaigners target toilets
Disabled people will try to gain entry to public buildings across Britain on the day it becomes against the law to deny them access to the services inside.
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NewsA new art form
Claudio Silvestrin Architects has won planning permission for a new roof extension above an old warehouse in east London. The warehouse is next door to the Victoria Miro Gallery, and the extension will house live/work units designed for young working artists.The warehouse below the new residential units will be converted ...
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NewsHit and miss
David Adjaye’s has found a local partner in Anderson Mason Dale Architects for his Museum of Contemporary Art project in Denver. DLA Architects’ £300 million proposal to build a giant indoor ski slope and other leisure facilities at a former cement works near Great Blakenham, Suffolk, has won planning permission. ...
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Conservative leader of Surrey County Council Nick Skellett has been re-elected as leader of the South East England Regional Assembly for the third time. Mark Wigley’s role as interim dean of architecture at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation has been made permanent. Wigley took over last ...
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Power play
Health secretary John Reid this week gave the go ahead for £4 billion of investment in 15 privately financed hospital developments. Just over £1 billion goes to the North Mersey Future Healthcare Project, and schemes in Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire get £880 million. Sandwell and West Birmingham Trust gets £591 ...
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Starstruck in Hollywood: Brad and Homer meet Rem and Frank
Architects hit the mainstream this month with Hollywood movie star Brad Pitt spending the day with Rem Koolhaas and Frank Gehry winning the ultimate accolade — a cameo on The Simpsons.Pitt spent a day with Koolhaas in Rotterdam earlier this month. The superstar showed Pitt round his Office for Metropolitan ...
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NewsBling thing on Oxford Street
Future Systems has won planning permission to replace the bland glass-brick frontage of a building in London’s Oxford Street with a “jewel-like” glass and aluminium facade.The practice behind the popular Selfridges building in Birmingham said the idea behind the design at 367 Oxford Street was to “delicately unify the lower-ground ...
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Green buyers will pay extra
A new survey has found the majority of housebuyers are prepared to pay 2% extra for an eco-friendly home.
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Lipton hoisted by his own anti-trophy rulesi
A planning inspector has rejected Stanhope’s planned redevelopment of a 5ha regeneration site in Croydon with CZWG and Foster & Partners following a public inquiry.
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Sutherland Hussey Architects, shortlisted for last year’s Stirling Prize is close to completing a new arts installation in Exeter.The £100,000 construction displays weather information from the Met Office through a series of LEDs, using colour coding to show temperature and air pressure.The 40m curved structure will light up a roundabout ...