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Local architect sticks up for condemned Norwich office block
An RIBA Award-winning Norwich architect has leapt to the defence of a condemned 1960s office block dubbed the city’s ugliest building.
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Giant Berlin seesaw approved
Germany’s culture minister has approved Milla & Partners’ £8.76 million seesaw commemorating German reunification after 12 years of public debate.
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Ground broken on Pelli Clarke Pelli's Illinois arts centre
Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects and OWP/P have broken ground on their new Western Illinois University Performing Arts Centre.
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Karim Rashid and Zaha Hadid take it to the kitchens
Creative collaborations are the name of the game when household names take to interiors
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Serie Architects - Kennedy Centre Monsoon Club
BD’s Young Architect of the Year has converted the terrace gallery at the Kennedy Centre in Washington DC into a temporary performance venue and club
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The architect and the specialist
Today’s architect should be the conductor of a vast orchestra of specialists
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RMJM could lose Gazprom Tower
RMJM’s involvement with what would be Europe’s tallest tower is in doubt after Gazprom, the energy firm building it, said it was now talking to other practices about the work.The firm won the contract for the 455m-high tower in St Petersburg in December 2006.But the plans attracted criticism from conservationists ...
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Construction worries overshadow economy's growth
Fall of 4.7% in output is the biggest for two years
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Not every architect needs to be a performer
Is the design crit still an appropriate tool in the education of architecture students?
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Arb suspends architect who 'intimidated' his clients
Michael Phillips hired heavies to recover disputed debt
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New sculpture planned for Olympic Park
Italian artist Monica Bonvicini has designed a new piece of public art due to be installed in the northern part of the Olympic Park in east London.The permanent piece will comprise three 9m-tall letters which form the word “run” and will be built on the plaza of the Handball Arena.It ...
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Associated Architects' Birmingham campus building approved
Birmingham planners have approved a new campus building for Birmingham City University by local firm Associated Architects.The scheme in the Eastside area of the city is part of a £180 million redevelopment being planned by the university, and will house its art and design departments.Running across 18,300sq m, the five-storey ...
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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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A room fit for the royal honeymoon
As the UK braces itself for another royal wedding spectacle, we look back at BD’s competition for Charles and Diana’s nuptials.
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Saatchi & Saatchi reception - Studio Octopi
Studio Octopi has recently completed work on its second reception space for Saatchi & Saatchi
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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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The Voice of the Architect
An architect speaks in defence of a tenement block in Dalmarnock, Glasgow
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Hopkins in race to build Gulf outpost for top school
The firm founded by Sherborne School old boy Michael Hopkins is one of six on the shortlist to build a new Sherborne for ex-pats and locals in Qatar.