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NewsAmerican architects reach out to Obama
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has offered its services as an advisor on urban development policy and green buildings to US president-elect Barak Obama.
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NewsLCE's Lancing College
LCE Architects has completed this 1,000sq m art building for private school Lancing College in West Sussex.
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NewsAukett is ditched from pioneering eco-home
Aukett Fitzroy Robinson has been axed as the architect of a pioneering eco-home set to be built using hemp at the Building Research Establishment’s innovation park.
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NewsFollett joins Scott Antarctica hut campaign
Architecture minister Barbara Follett has joined the campaign to save a hut in Antarctica used by Captain Scott.
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NewsBeckett insists Thames Gateway remains on track (video)
The development of the Thames Gateway will not fall behind schedule because of the impending recession, housing minister Margaret Beckett has insisted.
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Architects warned Middle East is not work 'utopia'
The Middle East is not a “utopia” of work opportunities, architects were warned at the first of RIBA London's world cities debates.
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NewsZaha's flower sculpture goes to New York
A series of sculptures designed by Zaha Hadid are currently on display in New York including a version of her Kloris sculpture which is part of a permanent exhibition in Derbyshire.
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NewsEllis Woodman on I.M. Pei's Museum of Islamic Art
BD’s buildings editor Ellis Woodman visits I.M. Pei’s new Museum of Islamic Art in Doha and suggests the handsome building offers a clear rebuke to flamboyant architecture elsewhere in the Gulf.
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NewsStudio Seilern’s Forrester house
Work has begun on Christina Seilern’s first commission since her departure from Rafael Viñoly Architects.
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RIBA president welcomes government's recession measures
RIBA president Sunand Prasad has welcomed yesterday's pre-budget report by chancellor Alistair Darling, which the government claims will avert the worst consequences of the recession. Key pledges include bringing forward £3 billion of public capital expenditure from 2010/11 to 2009/10 for schools, housing and transport, cutting VAT from 17.5% to ...
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NewsBrit architecture grads rack up win for New York bike park
An entry by British architecture graduates Anthony Lau and Jessica Lee has been selected as a joint winner of New York’s City Racks international design competition to create a bike park, alongside that of US practice RSVP Studio.
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Gareth Hoskins Architects wins Hadrian’s Wall competition
Gareth Hoskins has won the controversial competition to design a major new visitor centre at Hadrian’s Wall.
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NewsI.M. Pei's Qatar Museum of Islamic Art
I.M. Pei’s Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar is to open to the public on Monday December 1st.
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NewsIngenhoven Architects wins International Criminal Court competition
Düsseldorf-based practice Ingenhoven Architects has won first prize in a competition to design a new permanent home for the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague, plus a cash award of €60,000.
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NewsMoh Architects wins RIBA contest for Urban Splash’s Walsall waterfront regeneration
Vienna-based Moh Architects has won the RIBA competition to design a new waterfront project in Walsall for Urban Splash.
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Killian Pretty review calls for streamlining of planning system
The government's latest planning review, published today, has called for an overhaul of the system to save up to £300 million and reduce red tape.
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Cabe urges Oxford University to ditch Vinoly's masterplan for Radcliffe Infirmary scheme
Cabe has laid into a new framework document for a site at Oxford University developed from a previous masterplan by Rafael Viñoly Architects.
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NewsFoster's Russian schemes in question as developer runs into trouble
Three of Foster & Partner’s major Russian projects are under threat after a series of economic blows hit Shalva Chigirinsky, the property magnate behind all three schemes.
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Chipperfield awarded Cubo d’Oro
David Chipperfield has been awarded the prestigious Cubo d’Oro prize.
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NewsSeven shortlisted for Liverpool’s Royal Court Theatre refurb
Seven practices, including AHMM and Studio 3, have been shortlisted for the competition to refurbish and update the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool.