All articles by Elizabeth Hopkirk – Page 216

  • The Malmö city Tunnel by SWECO
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    SWECO

    2011-12-16T16:37:00Z

    the Karolinska Institutet Science Park (KISP) designed by Sweco FFNSSweco2012 rank: 12Country: SwedenLast ranking: 18Architects employed: 600With 50% more architects than its nearest compatriot, Tengbom Architects (28), Sweco remains Scandinavia’s biggest practice. For the second year in a row it has increased its headcount.The Malmö city Tunnel by SWECOThe Stockholm-based ...

  • RMJM’s redesign of the Khoo Teck Puat Hospital in Singapore
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    RMJM

    2011-12-16T16:37:00Z

    RMJM’s redesign of the Khoo Teck Puat Hospital in SingaporeRMJM2012 rank: 13Country: UKLast ranking: 8Architects employed: 593Last year it was the UK’s biggest practice but RMJM has lost more than 150 architects, allowing Foster & Partners (6) to snatch that crown.The Scottish practice had one high-profile departure last year: Will ...

  • YiXing Dongjiu Residential Development, China
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    WOODS BAGOT

    2011-12-16T16:37:00Z

    YiXing Dongjiu Residential Development, ChinaWoods Bagot2012 rank: 14Country: AustraliaLast ranking: 11 (2009)Architects employed: 581The Australian practice is the second-biggest earner on its home turf, after compatriot Hassell (30). It is also doing well in Asia, notably Central Asia where it is working on a new terminal at Baku airport in ...

  • FC Nanjing canyon Tower Block Complex
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    GMP

    2011-12-16T16:17:00Z

    FC Nanjing canyon Tower Block ComplexGMP2012 rank: 20Country: GermanyLast ranking: 24Architects employed: 449The Hamburg practice is the one to beat in China as far as British architects are concerned.Small practices, which have recently included Serie and Sutherland Hussey, celebrate when they triumph over the German titan, known for hoovering up ...

  • I-park Haeundae, Udong in Busan
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    KUNWON

    2011-12-16T16:16:00Z

    I-park Haeundae, Udong in BusanKunwon2012 rank: 19Country: South KoreaLast ranking: 25Architects employed: 465By recruiting more than 60 architects last year, Korea’s third biggest architects firm made its second successive climb up the WA 100 rankings, after suffering a sharp fall in 2010.Pangyo Sanun Maeul 7 Housing Complex. SongdoIt is now ...

  • Stadium for the 2014 Incheon Asian Games
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    HEERIM ARCHITECTS

    2011-12-16T16:16:00Z

    WA100 2012: 18

  • Suzhou Dushu Lake Masterplan
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    BDP

    2011-12-16T15:50:00Z

    Suzhou Dushu Lake MasterplanBDP2012 rank: 16Country: UKLast ranking: 10Architects employed: 545BDP topped western Europe’s fee income chart for the second year running but, in an illustration of the hammering taken by the region’s construction sector, this came about despite earning $20 million less than last year in that region.Qatar National ...

  • Aedas' 300,000sq m shopping mall in Wuxi, China
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    Global earnings of UK’s biggest practices up 25%

    2011-12-16T08:59:00Z

    WA100 shows Aedas replacing Aecom as world’s biggest architect on back of China work

  • Cultivating Rókus in Hungary by Laura Bradley, Isabella Percy and Sarah Robinson
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    Brits in Europe - first Europan results announced

    2011-12-16T07:54:00Z

    Several UK teams honoured in Europe-wide contests

  • Palestine Museum entry by Edward Cullinan
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    Cullinans and Heneghan Peng on shortlist for Palestinian Museum

    2011-12-16T07:40:00Z

    Finalists picked for their approach to sensitive cultural project

  • Austin-Smith Lord, Abu Dhabi
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    Austin-Smith Lord ex-staffers in Abu Dhabi take out injunctions

    2011-12-14T11:15:00Z

    Legal moves could threaten claims by UK creditors

  • cronton colliery
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    International competition launched for former Merseyside colliery

    2011-12-14T08:32:00Z

    Public open space has ‘potential to be magnificent attraction’

  • London mayor Boris Johnson
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    Boris outlines plans for 50,000 affordable homes by 2015

    2011-12-14T08:25:00Z

    Each new home will create two jobs, says government

  • Mary Portas
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    'Queen of shops' unveils radical planning changes to save high streets

    2011-12-13T12:03:00Z

    Out-of-town developments should require ministerial sign-off, says Mary Portas

  • S333’s housing scheme for the Paspoel suburb of Tongeren.
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    S333’s Belgian win paves way for new work

    2011-12-12T08:16:00Z

    £18 million residential scheme is first project in the country for the Dutch firm

  • BDP's Izmir masterplan
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    BDP produce masterplan for Izmir

    2011-12-12T08:14:00Z

    BDP has produced the masterplan and concept design for a mixed-use project on the outskirts of Izmir, Turkey’s third largest city.The Vaha Project, for Turkish developer Megapol, contains more than 175,000 sq m of retail, leisure, education, social and religious buildings serving both the local community and the wider Izmir ...

  • Farrells' proposal for Battersea Power Station
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    Farrells unveils radical plan for semi-demolished Battersea Power Station

    2011-12-09T09:50:00Z

    Speculative plan would retain chimneys and two walls

  • The masterplan for Gillespie, Kidd & Coia’s St Peter’s Seminary at Cardross in Scotland by Avanti Architects and ERZ Landscape Architects
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    Masterplan outlines 20-year vision for Cardross seminary

    2011-12-08T08:54:00Z

    Avanti and ERZ in £10 million rescue bid for Gillespie, Kidd & Coia’s St Peter’s Seminary

  • Adjaye Associates' Genesis pavilion
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    David Adjaye's pavilion opens at Design Miami

    2011-12-06T08:30:00Z

    First picture of Adjaye’s Genesis pavilion

  • Bloomingdale Regional Library
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    Firm faces design lawsuit after rape

    2011-12-05T10:00:00Z

    The architect of a library in Florida is being sued by the family of a young woman who was brutally beaten and raped outside the building