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Artists oppose Foster’s scheme
Artists Tracy Emin, Dinos Chapman and Rachel Whiteread have joined the campaign opposing the redevelopment of Bishop’s Place, between Shoreditch and Brick Lane in east London, masterplanned by Foster & Partners for Hammerson.
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NewsUK architects seek to modernise Paris
British-based architects including Zaha Hadid, Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners, Michel Mossessian and Think Place are competing to lead one of 10 multi- disciplinary teams tasked with creating a future vision for Paris.
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NewsFosters Abu Dhabi WTC
Foster & Partners’ latest Middle East project, the Abu Dhabi World Trade Centre, has been unveiled at the Mipim property fair in Cannes.
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Enter our contest to revive Robin Hood Gardens
BD and the Architecture Foundation have teamed up to organise a contest for architects to bring a new lease of life to Robin Hood Gardens. A group of architects and buildings experts including Simon Smithson and Peter Cook, Rowan Moore of the Architecture Foundation and engineer Matthew Wells, will produce ...
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NewsEH delays Robin Hood Gardens decision following BD campaign
English Heritage will delay making its recommendation on the future of Robin Hood Gardens thanks to the phenomenal response to BD's two-week-long campaign to have the Smithsons-designed estate listed.BD editor Amanda Baillieu handed the petition, containing more than 1,000 signatures, to English Heritage director of planning and development Steve Bee ...
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NewsFoster's unveils Abu Dhabi World Trade Centre
Foster & Partners' latest Middle East project, the Abu Dhabi World Trade Centre, has been unveiled at the Mipim property fair in Cannes.Part of a new waterfront city, the scheme will be the main building at Al Raha Beach, creating a peninsula at the eastern end of the semi-circular marina.The ...
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NewsFormer BD editor Martin Pawley dies
Former BD editor Martin Pawley has died after a long illness. The author, journalist and architectural critic, who edited Building Design from 1981 to 1983, died on Sunday less than two weeks before his 70th birthday.Peter Murray, who first worked as a journalist with Pawley in 1971 on Architectural Design, ...
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NewsFat wins competition to design Walsall library
Fat has triumphed in an RIBA competition to design a new community library facility in Walsall. The firm beat 72 international practices including Aaron Evans, Featherstone Associates, McMorran & Gatehouse Architects, Panter Hudspith and Sjolander da Cruz Architects to win the commission for the Bentley area of the town. Sean ...
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NewsMill turns to retail
Lyons, Sleeman & Hoare has applied for planning to transform the five-storey, grade II listed Slingfield Mill building at Kidderminster, Worcestershire, into a department store and hotel.
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NewsLessons in timber
Meadowcroft Griffin Architects has submitted this design, for the £8 million Lauriston Primary School in Hackney, east London, for planning.
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NewsRobin Hood report kept from public
A crucial report on the future of Robin Hood Gardens paid for by taxpayers was withheld from BD by Tower Hamlets Council this week.
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NewsPressure on Hodge to rethink listing stance
Architecture minister faces near-unanimous opposition to proposals
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Pear trees for Harley Street
Trees are to be planted on London’s Harley Street for the first time in its 300-year history.
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NewsDfL exhibition looks at public realm
A new exhibition curated by Design for London which opened this week will attempt to engage the public in a wide-ranging debate over the development of the capital’s public realm.
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NewsDesign for London needs reform, says Paddick
Mayoral candidate dismisses organisation as a ‘talking shop’
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NewsHerzog & de Meuron in running for Lord’s plan
Herzog & de Meuron and HOK Sport are among the practices bidding to draw up a £200 million masterplan for Lord’s cricket ground.
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NewsLondon Met unit makes shortlist for Korean city
A British-based architectural team has been shortlisted in a contest to design a new city one quarter of the size of Greater London.