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NewsPrasad sets sail for the Arctic with message on global warming
RIBA president Sunand Prasad has set sail for the Arctic, joining an eclectic bunch of artists and scientists including Jarvis Cocker and Martha Wainwright on the seventh Cape Farewell expedition.
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NewsReiser & Umemoto’s O-14 tower for Dubai under way
Construction on Reiser & Umemoto’s O-14 building, dubbed the “bubble tower”, has begun in Dubai, with the first nine floors now visible.
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Registration for Beirut international arts competition ends Monday
Registration for an international competition to design a new arts and culture venue in Beirut for the region’s exhibitions, concerts and conferences closes on Monday.
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City academy framework doubles to £4 billion
Architects are set to benefit from the doubling in size of the government’s framework to build city academies.
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NewsHerzog & de Meuron's new Paris skyscraper (images)
This 180m-high Herzog & de Meuron-designed pyramid tower is a proposal for the first skyscraper in Paris for 30 years.
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ODA promises inclusive games
The Olympic Delivery Authority has promised that the venues and infrastructure for the London 2012 games will make it the most accessible Olympics to date.
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U-turn on Hadrian’s Wall feedback
The National Trust has performed a U-turn and agreed to give feedback to architects who took part unsuccesfully in its controversial competition for a new visitor centre at Hadrian’s Wall.
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NewsWestern Design’s Dorset house is heaven for ‘tree huggers’
Western Design Architects has been granted planning permission to build an £800,000 “tree house” within a conservation area in Beaminster, west Dorset.
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NewsUrban Splash and Muse launch homes competition
Urban Splash today joins forces with Muse Developments to launch a competition.
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NewsGo-ahead for Stoke college
Broadway Malyan has won outline planning permission for this £24 million sixth-form college in Stoke-on-Trent.
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NewsMuseum revives old officer club
Stanton Williams was this week announced as the winner of an international competition to transform a bomb-damaged former officers’ club into new space for one of Berlin’s most prominent museums.
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NewsPublic sector must wake up to crisis, says housing chief
The government’s new housing and regeneration agency leader has warned public sector clients to wake up to the credit crunch, saying it could be “significantly worse than the early 1990s”.
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NewsLancashire CC designs revealed
BDP has unveiled its design to redevelop Lancashire County Cricket Club’s 150-year-old home at Old Trafford, Manchester.
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Music box is clad in rubber quilt
Carey Jones Architects’ music studio and practice facility for the University of Sheffield has been completed.
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NewsHere’s the design Boris binned
This is how Parliament Square would have looked under radical designs by Hawkins Brown, Swiss firm Vogt and DSDHA — which have been controversially dropped by mayor of London, Boris Johnson.
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Eric Parry Architects, PRP headline BD seminar
Eric Parry Architects, PRP Architects and English Heritage are to take part in a refurbishment conference hosted by BD next month.
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Teachers join architects to demand Smart PFI
Architects and teachers joined forces at this week’s Labour Party Conference to demand that the government’s £45 billion Building Schools for the Future programme allows for better interaction between the two professions in a bid to boost design.
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Call to ‘get angry’ on space standards
Speakers at an RIBA housing conference this week called for new legislation on space standards for all new-build homes.