All News articles – Page 1152
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Hopkins’ exemplary aim for WWF
Hopkins Architects is to design a UK headquarters for conservation body WWF-UK in Surrey that aims to be an exemplar of sustainable design.
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NewsAHMM’s Saatchi gallery opens
The new AHMM-designed Saatchi Gallery in the listed Duke of York’s Headquarters building in Chelsea opened to the public on Thursday.
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NewsBath adds a black splash
Bath & North East Somerset Council has granted planning for Mitchell Taylor Workshop’s complementary health clinic and martial arts centre in Bath city centre.
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NewsEH lists its top 20 heritage projects
Liverpool’s Bluecoat arts centre, King’s Cross Central in London and Sheffield’s Park Hill have been named in an English Heritage list of England’s 20 best conservation-led developments.
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Welsh Assembly should use architects to cut CO2
The Design Commission for Wales has called on the Welsh Assembly to use architects to help address the country’s carbon reduction and house-building agenda.
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NewsSoho hotel to get 1930s refurb
Celebrity haunt and art deco masterpiece, the Regent Palace Hotel in London’s Soho, is being converted into a mixed-use development, with its bars and restaurants refurbished to their original state by Donald Insall Associates.
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NewsHouses shingled out for praise
Five terraced dwellings in leafy Lambeth benefit from timber treatment
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NewsA computer designed my windows
Mixed use scheme in Kosovo maps and mitigates solar gain throughout the year
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NewsViñoly hits back at Battersea criticism
Rafael Viñoly has hit back at criticism of his controversial £4 billion scheme for the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station in London.
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Dyson ditches Wilkinson Eyre design school, blaming lack of support
James Dyson has scrapped plans for his controversial school of design innovation in Bath, designed by Wilkinson Eyre.
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RIBA fellowships recognise international practices
The RIBA has awarded seven new international fellowships in recognition of the work of international practices.
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Downsizing threat to 2012 media centre
Allies & Morrison’s Olympic media centre could be replaced with a slimmed-down version in the Stratford City development, the ODA admitted this week.
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NewsCalm renovation for Edinburgh mews buildings
Malcolm Fraser Architects recently converted these derelict mews buildings into offices.
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NewsMayne warns Dubai set for ‘ecological disaster’
Pritzker Prize winner blames a lack of control by city’s political class
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NewsRadisson wins Carbuncle Cup (video)
The Radisson SAS Waterfront Hotel in Jersey by EPR Architects has won the wooden spoon in BD’s Carbuncle Cup 2008.
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Cityscape 2008
Dubai Cityscape is the Middle East's answer to the Mipim property fair and attracts around 60,000 visitors from 150 countries. Bdonline reports on the news, new designs, themes and controversies from this year's show.
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NewsRick Bell: Architects are the economy's canaries (video)
Rick Bell, executive director of the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects, talks to Will Hurst on surviving a downturn.
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NewsFosters' Copenhagen elephant house (video)
Foster & Partners’ elephant house for Copenhagen Zoo opened to rave reviews earlier this year. See around the building yourself with our video tour.
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Cambridge gives 6a its first big UK commission
Up and coming practice 6a Architects has seen off a host of big names to land its first new build project in the UK.