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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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NewsHodge replaced as architecture minister
Margaret Hodge has been replaced as architecture minister in the weekend’s government reshuffle.
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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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BlogsNews Junkie: 04 and 05 October
Corbusier, Prince Charles and will the Olympic Village be nationalised?
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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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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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Homes expo has 12 on shortlist
DRMM, Fat and Sarah Wigglesworth Architects are among 12 practices shortlisted for the RIBA’s Scotswood Expo architectural competition.
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NewsLiam O’Connor’s structure at the National Memorial Arboretum is 43m in diameter.
A major armed forces memorial at Alrewas, near Lichfield in Staffordshire, has been voted the UK’s favourite Lottery-funded heritage project.
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NewsPiersland adds bedroom pavilion
Lawrence McPherson Associates has received planning permission for a garden pavilion at Scottish country hotel Piersland House Hotel near Troon, Ayrshire.
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Architects vulnerable to claims as economy slows
Architects have become a “natural target” for litigation by cash-strapped clients due to the worsening economic climate and rising professional indemnity insurance premiums, experts have claimed.
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Faint praise damns Architecture Week
Future of Architecture Week is questioned again in light of review
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NewsFunding blow could cancel Castleford Forum plans
Niall McLaughlin Architects’ ambitious scheme for a new museum, library and community building in the West Yorkshire town of Castleford has been turned down for lottery funding for a second time.
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Board restructuring defended
Arb chairman Mike Starling has defended proposed changes to the structure of Arb’s board (News September 28).
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Parliament Square paving bugged Boris
Plans to pedestrianise Parliament Square had already cost £2 million when London mayor Boris Johnson scrapped the scheme.
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M&S wins highest Breeam rating
3D Reid’s design for a Glasgow branch of Marks & Spencer has achieved the highest-ever Breeam retail fit-out rating.
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NewsCorb season takes off in Liverpool
The RIBA’s Le Corbusier season kicked off this week with the opening in Liverpool of Le Corbusier: the Art of Architecture exhibition in Edwin Lutyens’ crypt at the city’s Metropolitan Cathedral.
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NewsTop names rally to save Seaton Delaval
A roll call of some of Britain’s leading modern architects — from Terry Farrell and Peter Cook to Will Alsop — have backed a National Trust campaign to buy one of John Vanbrugh’s most renowned buildings for public use.
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