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NewsRIBA Trust rises from the ashes
The RIBA Trust has been reborn and renamed the British Architectural Board.
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NewsReed welcomes budget initiatives
RIBA president Ruth Reed has said good design should be at the heart of the planned enterprise zones announced in this week’s budget.
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BlogsIt’ll take a murder to redevelop villages like Midsomer
Osborne’s planned liberalisation of the planning system will not rest easy with the last bastions of Englishness
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NewsRIBA row sends legal bill soaring
Last year’s London Region dispute proves pricey for the RIBA.
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NewsCouncil approves AHMM's Southwark Tower
AHMM has received planning permission to build a 20-storey tower in south London.The 89m-high development, Blackfriars Road, sits on a site at the south end of Blackfriars Bridge, and was approved by the planning committee of Southwark Council.The 17,600sq m office building for Great Portland Estates will be wrapped in ...
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NewsUS practice Inaba wins Norwegian art commission
Inaba, the Californian architecture and urbanism firm founded by Jeffrey Inaba, has been selected to design a permanent artwork for a new concert hall being built in Stavanger, Norway.The LA-based practice was chosen from a field of six invited international teams by Koro Public Art Norway.Its 8m x 13m cylindrical ...
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NewsKilburn housing given the green light
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands and Alison Brooks Architects have won planning for the second stage of Brent council’s South Kilburn masterplan.
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NewsArtists may boycott Gehry's Guggenheim Abu Dhabi
Artists are threatening to boycott Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Abu Dhabi because of working conditions at the site.According to the New York Times more than 130 artists are proposing a boycott of the museum on Saadiyat Island, which is just beginning construction.Guggenheim Foundation director Richard Armstrong told the paper: “While we ...
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NewsHOK restores Kama Sutra translator's mausoleum
HOK has completed the restoration of the grade II* listed mausoleum of Richard Burton, the Victorian explorer and adventurer who translated the Kama Sutra.The mausoleum, which is in graveyard in Mortlake, south-west London, resembles the tent he used while travelling in the Middle East. It was built in 1891 and ...
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Cheltenham Art Gallery extension to start on site after lottery grant
Berman Guedes Stretton has been given the green light for its £6.3 million extension to Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum after the Heritage Lottery Fund awarded the project crucial funds.Work is now due to start on site this summer and could be completed by the end of next year.The Oxford ...
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NewsThe budget: what you need to know
“Cumbersome” planning regulations a key target in the plan for economic growth
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NewsMorrison parachutes in new bosses to run RMJM's Hong Kong office
RMJM has dispatched two senior architects to run its Hong Kong office after it was hit by a series of defections and a blast by a managing principal, angry that staff wages were not being paid on time.Gordon Hood, currently managing principal of the global education studio at Princeton, New ...
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BlogsHigh Street living
What intrigued me when I was ten, as it still does today, was the bizarre quality of living somewhere where you are not supposed to.
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NewsRussian cathedral plan for Paris site sparks spy fears
Franco-Russian practice Sade-Arch has sparked fears of cold war-style espionage in the heart of Paris with its plans for a £30 million Russian Orthodox cathedral beside the Eiffel Tower.
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NewsCompetition to be held for £140m Aberdeen scheme
An international competition is to be held for a design to replace a planned scheme by Brisac Gonzalez in the middle of Aberdeen.
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NewsLondon practice Mossessian wins Moroccan competition
Architect beats hundreds to work on World Heritage Site
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NewsAdam wins planning for Hampshire community
Robert Adam’s practice Adam Architecture has won planning for a 211ha mixed-use development at Waterlooville in Hampshire.The development, Newlands, will contain 2,550 family homes as well as supporting social infrastructure including a community centre, land designated for healthcare and elderly care facilities, two primary schools and a nursery. As well ...
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NewsBasil Spence honoured by blue plaque
Coventry Cathedral designer Basil Spence has been honoured with an English Heritage blue plaque unveiled this morning (Wednesday) at his former home and office in north London.Spence, who died in 1976, was commissioned to design a new cathedral after the existing one was destroyed by German bombers during the second ...
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NewsColumbia University opens architecture outpost in Rio
New York architecture school expands global research project
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NewsHadid, Chipperfield and Nouvel shortlisted for Mies van der Rohe Award
Buildings by David Chipperfield, Zaha Hadid and Jean Nouvel have all been shortlisted for the 2011 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - the Mies van der Rohe Award.The shortlist of six also features Belgian practice MDMA, Paris-based Bernard Tschumi and Dutch company Koen van Velsen.They were shortlisted from 343 ...