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Tate extension gains planning - images
Herzog & de Meuron’s daring extension to the Tate Modern gallery on London’s south bank has been approved by Southwark Council’s planning committee.The pyramid-like development, which Tate hopes to complete in time for the 2012 Olympics at a cost of around £215 million, will extend to the south of the ...
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Surface sing a rainbow...
These otherworldly designs by Surface Architects are part of a newly completed film and visual media research centre for London’s Birkbeck College.
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NewsOMA’s ‘Tetris’ tower for Singapore
Rem Koolhaas’s practice OMA has been commissioned to design this 36-storey Tetris-style residential tower in Singapore, its first building in the city.
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NewsSwansea scheme moves on site
Holder Mathias Architects’ £11 mil- lion apartment scheme for Swansea Housing Association is now on site.
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News‘In London, the issues raised have vital local resonance’
It is a measure of the extraordinary scale of Ricky Burdett’s Venice show that fitting it into the largest exhibition venue in London has required some radical pruning.
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NewsLend Lease goes talent spotting
Olympic village developers looking for 40 ‘world class’ architects
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Heritage fund will lose out
The government has said the Heritage Lottery Fund will lose more than £160 million of funding between 2009 and 2012 because of the spiralling cost of the 2012 Olympics — now £9.3 billion.
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Istanbul surprise front runner
Istanbul is the surprise leader in the race to win the award for the Academy of Urbanism’s European City of the Year 2007.
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NewsFoster takes over at Folkestone
A huge seaside regeneration project by Aukett Fitzroy Robinson has been scrapped and will be replaced by a Foster & Partners scheme following a controversial land deal.
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NewsHOK Sport scheme sets example
Housing minister Yvette Cooper has described HOK Sport’s Ashburton Triangle regeneration scheme (pictured) as an example for the Olympics.
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Essex man gets culture
Ash Sakula, Flaqc, Hawkins Brown and Trevor Horne Architects have unveiled these designs for a new cultural quarter in Colchester.
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NewsDevelopment spells end for Oriental City
London mayor Ken Livingstone has given the green light to a £150 million mixed-use scheme in Colindale, north London, designed by Sheppard Robson.
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NewsIndependent office called for
The Town & Country Planning Association has rejected the idea that unelected commissioners should decide major schemes, and called for an independent Office of Planning.
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NewsHigh-density development ‘blights’ our suburbs – EH
The suburbs are being “blighted” by high-density development, English Heritage has warned.
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Pringle blasts Budget failures
The RIBA has criticised Gordon Brown’s budget for failing to tackle climate change.
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NewsDouble British success in Cyprus arts quarter
Feilden Clegg Bradley has won a prestigious competition organised by the RIBA for an £8 million art gallery in Nicosia, central Cyprus.
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NewsChelsea’s art in the open
Landscape architect Planet Earth has won a national competition to design a £1.5 million open-air gallery at the Chelsea College of Art & Design, next to the Tate Britain gallery in London.
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NewsSerota promises regular architecture shows at Tate
Gallery cites public demand for architecture at launch of Global Cities show based on Venice Biennale
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NewsArchitecture courses lack green aspect says BRE
Architectural education is failing to provide a proper grounding in sustainable design, the Building Research Establishment has claimed.