All articles by Elizabeth Hopkirk – Page 234
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Spab announces this year's Lethaby Scholars
The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (Spab) has announced two architects and an engineer as this year’s Lethaby Scholars – a scheme that provides six months of conservation training.The scholarship scheme, open to all building professionals and run by Spab, has been running since 1930. Past winners have ...
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Satellite wins competition to design Quaker centre in Hammersmith
Satellite Architects has won a competition to design a new sustainable Quaker worship centre as part of a major mixed-use scheme in west London.The existing Friends’ Meeting House in Hammersmith will be demolished as part of controversial plans by Sheppard Robson to redevelop the area around the town hall.Satellite was ...
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Grimshaw wins Brazilian Olympic pavilion contest
Grimshaw has won first prize in a design competition for a mobile art pavilion which will tour Brazil in the run-up to the 2016 Olympics.
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Broadway Malyan and Wilkinson Eyre shortlisted for Chinese scheme
Broadway Malyan, Wilkinson Eyre and German practice Henn Architekten have made it through the first round of public voting for a landmark development in the southern Chinese city of Haikou.
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McAdam shortlisted for Winter Olympics spin-off
McAdam Architects has been shortlisted for a £75 million mixed-use development in Sochi, the Russian host city for the 2014 Winter Olympics.The 40,000sq m Sputnik scheme will stand on sloping parkland on the Black Sea resort’s main boulevard, overlooking the marina.It features twin towers with 220 flats and a series ...
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RIBA's Melvin Debate tackles architecture and law
Series of debates held in memory of late RIBA Council member and his wife
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Holder Mathias wins planning for Sussex seafront flats
Exposed geology of Rottingdean cliffs inspired horizontal design
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Architects and interior designers invited to enter awards for excellent service
Nominations close at the end of May
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Edward Cullinan and RMJM on Scottish shortlist for 2011 RIBA Awards
Seventeen finalists are contenders for Stirling Prize
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Nuclear bunker looks like a... nuclear bunker, say architects
Damaged Chernobyl reactor to be re-sealed inside giant shell
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International Q&A: Tim Flynn
Tim Flynn, Principal of Tim Flynn Architects discusses working in Armenia
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Architects share Chinese wisdom with aspiring practices
’Stop work if you are not paid within 30 days,’ says one
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BFLS wins approval for world's most powerful laser
Scientific facility could pave way for breakthroughs in cancer treatment
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John McAslan completes fifth project at Lancaster University
Charles Carter building sits in practice’s own masterplan
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Atkins bridges for Køge Bay motorway
Atkins has been appointed to provide preliminary studies and design work for several bridges in a scheme to widen the Køge Bay motorway in Denmark.
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Xi’an horticultural expo completes
Plasma Studio and Groundlab’s Flowing Gardens project for the International Horticultural Expo in China (pictured above) has been completed, ready for next week’s opening.
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Save holds up Pathfinder demolition in Liverpool
Save Britain’s Heritage has scored a major victory in its campaign to keep the Pathfinder bulldozers out of Liverpool after communities secretary Eric Pickles issued a stop notice
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Sheppard Robson opens first overseas office
Practice sets up Abu Dhabi studio on the back of Masdar win
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Global PechaKucha raises Japan funds
Nearly 100 cities around the world have taken part in a global PechaKucha event to raise funds for the reconstruction of Japan after the devastating earthquake and tsunami.
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Gensler's San Francisco airport modernisation wins green plaudit
Terminal 2 re-opens after 11-year closure