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Nick Clegg opens Curl La Tourelle's citizenship centre
Curl La Tourelle’s £8 million virtual learning centre, which aims to teach children about citizenship, has been opened by the deputy prime minister Nick Clegg
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The head, heart and tail of Zaha Hadid’s Chengdu art centre
Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled its plans for the largest cultural building in China, the Chengdu Contemporary Art Centre in Sichuan province
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Thomas Heatherwick and Boris Johnson unveil London's new routemaster bus
Designer says the new model represents a return to the best of British design.
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Architecture helps 'Ground Zero mosque' gain public approval
The architect behind the so-called ’Ground Zero mosque’ has told how publishing images of the controversial scheme has won opponents over.
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McAslan-led panel voices concerns over Iranian embassy
John McAslan said he is “deeply concerned” over plans for the new Iranian embassy proposed by Austrian firm Daneshgar Architects in Kensington, London.
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Arb 'threat' to new association of Part II architects
The founder of the newly created Association of Part Two Architects (TAPTA) has complained to a minister after receiving a “threatening” letter from the Arb.
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Pringle Richards Sharratt wins planning for William Morris extension
Pringle Richards Sharratt Architects has won planning consent for a £3.75m extension to the UK’s only gallery dedicated to the work of William Morris.
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Scottish Government asked to step in over controversial Edinburgh scheme
The Scottish Government has been asked to investigate the involvement of the country’s chief planner in a £1 billion development on the edge of Edinburgh.
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Crab wins second place in Taiwan Tower competition
Peter Cook and Gavin Robotham’s Crab Studio has won second place in an international competition to design the 300m tall Taiwan Tower in Taichung.
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MJP's Maggie's Centre opens in Cheltenham
Cheltenham centre brings Maggie’s caring empire to seven
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New hope for Cardross Seminary as charity plans competition
Arts charity NVA wants to hold a design competition to revive the crumbling St Peter’s Seminary in Scotland after alternative plans to turn it into housing stalled.
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Work begins on OMA's Maggie's Centre
Work on OMA’s scheme for a new Maggie’s Centre in Glasgow has begun.
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C F Møller beats Brisac Gonzalez to design Norway opera house
C F Møller Architects has been selected to design the new Kristiansund Opera & Culture Centre in Norway.
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RIBA to establish regional HQ in Liverpool
The RIBA is drawing up plans to establish a landmark regional outpost in Liverpool, including a public exhibition space in the city’s burgeoning new cultural quarter.
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Make wins planning for controversial Brompton Diamond
Make Architects has won permission for a contemporary London building inspired by the facets of a diamond on condition that founder Ken Shuttleworth personally oversees the project.
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Haworth Tompkins scoops V&A and Chichester Theatre projects
Haworth Tompkins has been selected to design a new study and conservation centre at the Victoria & Albert Museum, and to masterplan the future of the Chichester Festival Theatre.
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Foster launches 2011 travelling scholarship
Applications for the 2011 RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship have opened.
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Houchell bridges the Trent
Former Wilkinson Eyre architect Oliver Houchell has unveiled designs for a new foot and cycle bridge across the river Trent in the Lincolnshire town of Gainsborough.
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Fraser Brown MacKenna school opens in Southend
A new school building in Essex designed by Fraser Brown MacKenna Architects will officially open on Friday.
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Architects 'complicit in China's crime', claims dissident Weiwei
Architects working in China who do not raise concerns about the regime’s human rights record are complicit in a crime, dissident artist Ai Weiwei said today.