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NewsReed warns economy will undermine her promises
RIBA president-elect Ruth Reed has warned that the economic downturn is set to cut the RIBA’s programme of activities and could make her election pledge of raising architects’ incomes unachievable.
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Alvaro Siza wins RIBA Gold Medal
Portugal’s Alvaro Siza has been awarded the RIBA’s Royal Gold Medal for 2009.
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NewsHadid and Mecanoo win Cityscape awards
Zaha Hadid and Mecanoo were among the winners at the Cityscape Architectural Awards, held in Dubai on Monday.
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NewsMMA Architects wins Curry Stone award
South African practice MMA Architects is the first recipient of the annual $100,000 Curry Stone Design Prize, which awards breakthrough design solutions that respond to areas of need or environmental issues.
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NewsUS to hold competition for new London embassy building
The US Overseas Building Operation is to launch an international competition to design the new premises for the US Embassy in London in the Nine Elms regeneration area in Battersea, South London.
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NewsLimited public transport is stunting Dubai’s development, says Livingstone
On the opening day of Cityscape in Dubai, former London mayor Ken Livingstone has said Dubai can not develop as a world financial centre until it has an efficient public transport system.
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NewsHodge replaced as architecture minister
Margaret Hodge has been replaced as architecture minister in the weekend’s government reshuffle.
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NewsDubai plans 1km-high tower
Developer Nakheel this weekend revealed plans for a 1km-high tower in the centre of Dubai, set to eclipse the world’s current tallest tower, the Burj Dubai.
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NewsCraig-Martin portrait of Hadid unveiled at National Portrait Gallery
Zaha Hadid’s fourth appearance in the National Portrait Gallery, unveiled Thursday, could also be called her 1,000,000th as the ever-changing portrait by Michael Craig-Martin will never show the same image twice.
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Beckett moved to housing in cabinet reshuffle
Margaret Beckett has replaced Caroline Flint as housing minister in today’s government reshuffle.
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NewsGough’s Croydon towers vision
CZWG has unveiled these images of the Odalisk — Piers Gough’s tower development set for the centre of Croydon, Surrey.
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NewsNew York says work at Ground Zero memorial on track for 2011 opening
Work on Freedom Tower, and Foster, Rogers, Maki towers elsewhere on the site well ahead of schedule
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NewsBoris accused of playing politics with Southwark towers
John Gray, planning inspector of the public inquiry into the Ian Simpson and Wilkinson Eyre towers on London’s South Bank, boosted the case for the two schemes on Thursday when he announced he would not give London mayor Boris Johnson’s objections to them undue weight.
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NewsCabe says Allies & Morrison’s Tower Hamlets masterplan is overdeveloped
Cabe has accused Allies & Morrison of “overdevelopment”, in a review of its masterplan for the St Andrew’s area of Tower Hamlets in London.
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NewsRelax... up on the roof
A contemporary rooftop pavilion and garden for staff at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital has been completed by Spacelab in collaboration with award-winning gardener Andy Sturgeon.
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Ministers review Scots watchdog
The Scottish government is to review the work of its design watchdog, Architecture & Design Scotland, looking at policy, financial management and remit.
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NewsNew look at the Temple
Proposals for a mixed-use development near London’s Temple Station by Wilkinson Eyre and Horden Cherry Lee have been submitted for planning.
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RTKL starts on Jordan project
Planning has begun on a 12ha mixed-use development in Jordan by London-based architect RTKL.
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Will Hurst in New York
BD's News Editor, Will Hurst, crosses the pond to the Big Apple to talk to key figures in the Manhattan architecture scene. Discovering how Manhattan architects are weathering the credit crunch and seeing for himself how the World Trade Centre site is ticking along, Will discovers that builders are really ...
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NewsThe Modern House moves into lettings
Estate agent the Modern House, which specialises in the sale of 20th century homes, has launched a new rental service in the face of the country’s dramatic housing slowdown.