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NewsBD's Young Architect of the Year shortlist announced
The six shortlisted practices in the 2011 Autodesk Young Architect of the Year Awards were announced at a party held at the Architecture Foundation last night.
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NewsFobert scheme scrapped as Tate St Ives goes out to tender
Jamie Fobert is being forced to reapply for the Tate St Ives extension he has been working on since 2005.The gallery has today put the project back out to tender and hopes to appoint an architect within six months.Fobert and the gallery stressed they had not fallen out but were ...
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NewsRMJM to restore Gillespie Kidd & Coia church
Paul Stallan Studio at RMJM has been appointed to lead a restoration project at the Gillespie Kidd & Coia-designed St Bride’s Church in East Kilbride, Scotland.
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NewsCabe backs RIBA in procurement battle
Design Council Cabe has entered the fight to overhaul the procurement process, which it admits has been a “besetting problem” for architects.
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NewsQuality pledge for Olympic Park
The chief of design at the Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC) has promised that design quality will be at the heart of plans to transform the Olympic Park following the 2012 games.
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NewsGo-ahead for Southend Pier
White Arkitekter’s proposal for a cultural centre at the end of Southend Pier has secured planning permission.
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NewsIn pictures: The YAYA Shortlisting party
Judges, sponsors and young practices were out in force last night for the announcement of the YAYA shortlisting party at the Architecture Foundation
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NewsBrady backs Venturi and Scott Brown for RIBA Gold Medal
RIBA president Angela Brady has seconded a nomination for Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown to be considered for the RIBA Gold Medal 2012.The pair were nominated by Richard Pain, founder of Richard Pain Architects, who said Frank Gehry, Terry Farrell and Alison Brooks also supported the move.Pain said: “It ...
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NewsNorman Foster pays tribute to Steve Jobs, his 'friend and inspiration'
Working with Apple founder left Foster & Partners ‘wiser as architects’
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A group of students are working with architecture firm ZAP on a project to protest against the rise in university tuition fees
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MultimediaVideo: Rem Koolhaas on the OMA/Progress Exhibition at the Barbican
OMA founder Rem Koolhaas and exhibition curator and Rotor member Maarten Gielen discuss the major OMA retrospective which launches this week
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NewsWork starts on Terry Farrell's TV-am remodel
Jacobs Webber design includes “spectrum of colour fins”
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NewsHerzog & de Meuron to design new school for Oxford university
Blavatnik School of Government will open in 2015
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NewsRMJM keeps Gazprom tower job
RMJM has been told by energy giant Gazprom that it will continue to be involved in the controversial Okhta tower project near St Petersburg in Russia. The practice’s future association with the tower was thrown into doubt earlier this year when Gazprom confirmed it was talking to several different firms ...
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ReviewSlogans & battlecries: 'A plane of tarmac with hot spots of urban intensity'
Architectural aphorisms explored
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NewsBob Allies to lead East of England design review
Frank Duffy, David Thompson and Nicolas Ray also appointed to review panel
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NewsBritish brutalism added to list of world's threatened monuments
London’s Southbank Centre, Preston Bus Station and Birmingham Library have been added to a schedule of the world’s endangered cultural monuments.The World Monuments Fund (WMF) placed the “three outstanding modernist sites” on its 2012 World Monuments Watch list under the umbrella of “British brutalism”.The list features 67 sites in 41 ...
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NewsArchitecture Foundation launches beehive design competition
The Architecture Foundation has launched an international competition to design urban beehives.It is hoped that winning submissions will be mass-produced and installed at sites across the central London areas of Holborn, Bloomsbury and St Giles.The competition has been organised by the foundation on behalf of Inmidtown, the business improvement district ...
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CompetitionsFor sale: Amanda Levete Chester Sofa
A lightly used original Chester sofa designed by Amanda Levete and produced by specialist manufacturers Established & Sons.The soft bean shape of the sofa is constructed from white fibreglass finished with a cushin insert upholstered in soft grey/beige microfibre.It has some signs of use, but nothing major.DimensionsHeight: 70cmWidth: 110cmDepth: 285cmPrice ...