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NewsAnnual AIA awards gala honours British winners
Zaha Hadid and Terry Pawson among winners at UK Chapter event
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FeaturesCPD 2011 Module 5: Architectural Cladding
This CPD explores the use of architectural cladding to create a practical, decorative and sustainable facade. It is sponsored by Ruukki.
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NewsEgret West leads £350m Gateshead homes plan
Studio Egret West is heading a team of four practices picked to work on a £350 million scheme to build 2,500 homes across a series of sites in Gateshead.
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NewsNord splits due to irreconcilable differences
One of Britain’s most exciting young firms, Nord, has split up due to irreconcilable differences between its founding directors.
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NewsHawkins Brown's civic hub for Corby
Hawkins Brown has unveiled images of its new £35 million civic hub for Corby town centre in Northamptonshire.
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NewsCoalition increases number of PFI schemes
The coalition government will sign off more PFI projects this year than in the previous two years, despite both the Tories and Liberal Democrats criticising them before the 2010 election.According to a Channel 4 News, chancellor George Osborne will sign off 40 projects this year compared to 38 in 2009 ...
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NewsHome owners spend £12,000 on structural changes, says survey
Shelter and RIBA reveal average spend as Architect in the House is launched
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NewsRIBA London pays homage to Skylon on Southbank
The RIBA is set to take part in the 60th anniversary celebrations at the Southbank Centre this summer with the installation of a temporary bandstand designed by students.The project, a collaboration between part I and part II students, will remain on site outside the Royal Festival Hall from April 22 ...
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OpinionDriven to it
Norman Foster must have no shortage of garage space. Having recently built a version of Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion car, he last week took receipt of a Tatra T87 (pictured), the Czech car designed in 1936.Foster’s car was found in a terrible state in a garage in Hannover and has now ...
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OpinionLitmus test
One of the capital’s most famous eye sores, Elephant & Castle’s lurid “pink elephant” shopping centre is to escape the bulldozer. The run-down 46-year-old centre had long been earmarked for demolition.Now Southwark Council has confirmed a U-turn that will see a few licks of paint turn the pink elephant into ...
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OpinionFighting talk
Meanwhile, Boots’s tips for the Stirling shortlist are: David Lea and Pat Borer’s Wales Institute for Sustainable Education (Wise); FOA’s Ravensbourne College of Art; Hadid’s Evelyn Grace school; Foster’s winery at Faustino; One New Change by Jean Nouvel; the Velodrome by Hopkins and Sarah Wigglesworth’s school in Wakefield .But the ...
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NewsMake wins planning approval for 5 Broadgate
The City of London’s planning and transportation committee today resolved to grant planning permission for Make’s giant new UBS headquarters at 5 Broadgate.The move was today welcomed by Broadgate owner British Land and paves the way for the demolition of 4 and 6 Broadgate, designed by Arup Associates and developed ...
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NewsLibeskind pool ceiling collapses in Bern
The ceiling of a retail and leisure centre designed by Daniel Libeskind has collapsed for the second time in three years in the Swiss capital of Bern.
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NewsSave 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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BlogsDrawing Rooms, Part 1
The first of three posts about the discoveries to be made in some of London’s current exhibitions, starting with the Tate’s James Stirling show
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NewsLondon's third White Cube gallery to go ahead
Casper Mueller Kneer set to design Southwark warehouse conversion
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NewsCompetition launched for Aberdeen's Union Terrace Gardens
Malcolm Reading Consultants running contest for £140 million scheme
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NewsSheppard Robson opens first overseas office
Practice sets up Abu Dhabi studio on the back of Masdar win
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NewsGlobal 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.