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NewsBattersea Power Station redevelopment- images
Plans for an immense 300m high chimney and ‘eco-dome’ form part of the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station, architect Rafael Vinoly revealed on Friday.
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BDP unveils Birmingham campus masterplan
BDP has unveiled its masterplan for a £150 million redevelopment of Birmingham City University’s city-centre campus.
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New doubt cast on 2012 funding
Advisers to London mayor Boris Johnson have cast renewed doubts over the funding of the 2012 Athletes Village.
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NewsNew images of Herzog & de Meuron's Portsmouth stadium
The first images of Herzog & de Meuron’s redesign of the proposed new 36,000-seat stadium for Portsmouth Football Club have been revealed.
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NewsLocal firms dominate Yorkshire RIBA awards shortlist
The shortlist for this year’s RIBA Yorkshire White Rose Awards has been announced with local talent dominating.
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NewsDeveloper challenges Manchester Council’s Jackson Wharf rejection
A major housing development in Manchester by Ian Simpson Architects is set to face a public inquiry after developer Peel Holdings lodged an appeal.
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NewsHolburne Museum alternative presses ahead
The Holburne Museum has accused the Bath Heritage Watchdog (BHW) of wasting tax-payers’ money by pursuing listed building permission for an “irrelevant” alternative to Eric Parry’s already-approved modernist extension.
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NewsRogers recognised in Queen’s birthday honours
Richard Rogers joined an elite order of distinguished figures in the Queen’s birthday honours list announced last weekend.
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NewsBetter Public Building shortlist unveiled
Denton Corker Marshall’s Civil Justice Centre in Manchester, Allies & Morrison’s Festival Hall revamp and MUMA’s Newlyn Art Gallery in Cornwall are among the 21 buildings shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Better Public Building Award, the annual gong that rewards design-led regeneration projects.Credit: Peter Cook Royal Festival Hall, LondonOther firms ...
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NewsOMA to build mixed-use scheme around Rotterdam bank building
The Office for Metropolitan Architecture has released an image of its plans for a mixed-use building space in Coolsinge, Rotterdam’s shopping district. It would contain retail, cultural, residential and office space.
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NewsCouncil backs Everton stadium scheme for Kirkby
Knowsley Council has approved Broadway Malyan’s controversial scheme in Kirkby for a new 50,000-seat stadium for Everton FC, and an adjacent retail development led by Tesco.
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Competition launched to design public square for King's Cross station
Camden Council and Network Rail have launched an RIBA competition to design a new public square at King’s Cross in central London.
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NewsThree shortlisted for RIBA's Lubetkin Prize
Three architects have been shortlisted for RIBA’s Lubetkin prize for the most outstanding work of architecture outside the UK and the European Union by an RIBA member.
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NewsLondon mayor set to ditch Rogers as adviser
London mayor Boris Johnson has indicated that Labour peer Richard Rogers is unlikely to continue as the city’s adviser on architecture and urbanism under his administration.Speaking at City Hall on Wednesday, Johnson said: “I’ll certainly be maintaining the role of an adviser on architecture or urbanism, but you’ll have to ...
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NewsLe Corbusier's Ronchamp chapel stirs passions online
An online war is pitting some of the biggest names in world architecture against each other in a bid to influence the French Minister of Culture over the future of Le Corbusier’s world famous Ronchamp chapel.
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NewsEIB takes quantum leap
The European Union’s international financing arm, The European Investment Bank, will this week unveil its new 10-storey headquarters in Kirchberg, Luxembourg, designed by German architect Ingenhoven.
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NewsLiving Steel shortlist announced
British architects make up three of the 12 teams shortlisted for Living Steel’s third International Architecture Competition for Sustainable Housing.
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BSF boosted by new design director role
The role of design within the government’s £45 billion Building Schools for the Future programme is set to be boosted thanks to a raft of reforms including a powerful new architect role within delivery body Partnerships for Schools.
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NewsRitchie hits out at Southwark Council over Potter’s Field
Ian Ritchie has spoken out against Southwark Council’s decision to engage a new architect for Potter’s Field.