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NewsHome from home M-hotel aims to end isolation of long-term guests
Architect Tim Pyne has unveiled his new concept in self-catering hotels, the M-hotel.
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NewsForeign Office redevelops Toulouse's Aerospace Valley
Foreign Office Architects, in a joint venture with developer Altarea-Cogedim, has seen off competition from OMA and Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners for this £450 million, 40ha, mixed-use project in Toulouse’s Aerospace Valley.
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NewsWilkinson Eyre wins go-ahead for mixed-use towers in Southwark
Wilkinson Eyre has won planning permission for two mixed-use towers on a key site in the London Borough of Southwark. The scheme, at 20 Blackfriars Road, for client Circleplane, is for a 23-storey office tower and a 42-storey residential tower on a corner site just south of Blackfriars bridge.The base ...
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NewsScott, Wigglesworth and Gehl on winning Hull Fruit Market team
Richard Scott of Surface Architects is to lead the redevelopment a key slice of Hull's historic Fruit Market. Also on the team are Sarah Wigglesworth, urbanist Jan Gehl, Irena Bauman of Bauman Lyons, and Grimsby-based Hodson Architects.Hull-born Scott and his team will produce detailed designs for the market's “central development ...
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Paul King to chair Think conference
UK Green Building Council chief executive promises "radical thinking on sustainability" at May event
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NewsArup Sport wins Singapore sports complex
British firm Arup Sport has been selected to design Singapore’s new ‘sports hub’, the largest sports PPP project in the world.Working with local firm DP Architects, the Arup Sport consortium beat competition from HOK Sport and former Herzog & de Meuron architect Tim Hupe to land the Premier Park job, ...
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NewsCouncil sues over illegal work to Putney bridge
Disgraced architect Clifford Gardner could face jail after drilling holes in listed bridge
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NewsFoster's Shoreditch high rise challenged by rival scheme
Local campaigners commission Willingdale Associates in bid to preserve landmark Light Bar against Foster's Bishops's Place redevelopment
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NewsBDP joint venture wins competition to design Kiev children's hospital
BDPgroupe6, a collaboration between UK practice BDP and French practice Groupe6, has won a competition to design a 250-bed children's hospital in Kiev. The team beat six other practices to design the All Ukrainian Health Protection Centre for Mothers and Children (The Children's Hospital of the Future), after beating six ...
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NewsToday Dubai, tomorrow the Universe
From the developers that gave you “The World” - the coastal archipelago in Dubai of reclaimed islands designed to resemble the continents – comes “The Universe”.The massive waterfront project which, inevitably, draws inspiration from the heavens above, was unveiled by Dubai property giant Nakheel last week.Concept images reveal a ...
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NewsBdonline holds world's first virtual careers fair
Bdonline makes history this week as we host the world’s first live virtual careers fair
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NewsFoster's and Wilkinson Eyre battle for St Petersburg masterplan
Wilkinson Eyre and Foster & Partners will compete for a major masterplanning commission in St Petersburg after beating off strong competition from Dutch megastars Rem Koolhaas and MVRDV and fellow British firm PRP.The two practices will now go head to head to land the commission to develop plans for Apraksin ...
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NewsSave 25% off Building with steel
It's a steel: Each month Riba bookshop offers BD readers 25% off a recommended title. For January, it is Building with steel: Principles, details, examples.
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NewsWorld of water
Work has begun on this £9 million HQ by Faulkner Brown Architects for Essex & Suffolk Water in Chelmsford, Essex.
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NewsNew-look Paddington
Fletcher Priest has finally won planning approval for this £150 million mixed-use scheme on North Wharf Road in Paddington, west London.
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NewsNetwork Rail supports Smithfield
The battle over London’s Smithfield Market took a new twist this week after Network Rail failed to back the City of London’s assertion that the General Market building needs to be demolished in order to replace unsafe railway tunnels below.
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NewsSix on icon shortlist
New architects for Commonwealth Institute revealed as Foster & Partners is dropped
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Tory homes plan slammed
Housing design experts have slammed Conservative Party proposals to enforce the so-called Merton Rule nationwide, claiming the move would compromise delivery of zero-carbon homes.
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NewsHadid's Oxford union
Zaha Hadid Architects has revealed designs for an extension to the Middle East Centre at St Anthony’s College, Oxford.