Fosters' Rimini waterfront scheme unveiled
3 July, 2008
Foster & Partners has revealed designs for its waterfront development in Rimini, Italy
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Fosters' Rimini waterfront scheme unveiled
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Boris to boost London “low-carbon” zones
Boris to boost London “low-carbon” zones
3 July, 2008
Mayor of London expands Ken Livingstone's policy to cover 10 areas by 2012
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Robin Hood Gardens will not be listed
1 July, 2008
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Hodge refusal to list snubs profession
04 July 2008
Rescue Robin Hood Gardens
Robin Hood Gardens design competition: The results
27 June, 2008
The top entries in BD and the Architecture Foundation’s ideas competition for Robin Hood Gardens show that inspired refurbishment of the estate can give it a new vibrancy while reaching the required density levels.
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DSDHA unveils an underpass to tickle Castleford’s fancy
04 July 2008
DSDHA’s long awaited underpass project in Castleford, West Yorkshire, has been unveiled in the week it was confirmed that Channel 4 will finally broadcast the television series on the town’s regeneration next month.
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RIBA National and European Award winners announced
30 June, 2008
Contenders for the Stirling Prize shortlist were revealed at the RIBA National and International Awards at London’s Hilton Hotel on Friday night.
‘Swoosh’ pavilion swoops into view at the AA
27 June 2008
The AA’s 2008 summer pavilion lands in Bedford Square
Photos by Sue Barr and AA students
Comment
Was Prince Charles right — is modern architecture still all stumps and carbuncles?
04 July 2008
Most buildings are the creation of talentless people just doing their jobs, says Roger Scruton; but Alain de Botton warns of succumbing to kitsch nostalgia
Hodge plays philistine hand
04 July 2008
By not listing Robin Hood Gardens, Margaret Hodge has betrayed the government’s prejudice against modern buildings and its contempt for architects
Buildings
The public liability of West Bromwich’s The Public
04 July 2008
Will Alsop has called The Public his best-ever building, but after a visit to the £54m Midlands arts centre, Ellis Woodman has other ideas
London Festival of Architecture 2008
Matthew Butcher: Model for A Monument ‘The Anarcho-Syndicalist Town Hall’- July 5 to July 20
1 July, 2008
‘Model for a Monument (The Anarcho-Syndicalist Town Hall)’ is an architectural installation and scale model of an anarchist’s discussion space, commissioned by Camden Council and sited in Russell Square.
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Debate rejects call for counter-terrorism design
Debate rejects call for counter-terrorism design
26 June, 2008
“Every special interest group in the country wants architects on their side to carry their paranoia!” cried architect Piers Gough, speaking at an RIBA Building Futures debate last night on the culture of security-conscious design. “Don’t...
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Ultimately, Alsop’s ‘jumble sale’ aesthetic accommodates lapses in quality
04 July 2008
As English Heritage announces new plans to appoint an architect for a temporary visitor centre at Stonehenge, Denton Corker Marshall director Stephen Quinlan recalls his firm’s part in the long-running saga
Reviews
Student summer shows at the Bartlett, Canterbury, London Met & Edinburgh
04 July 2008
Wild and practical imaginations fused with inspiring teaching have produced another excellent vintage.
Architect Carolyn Steel’s nourishing ideas for designers
04 July 2008
Pamela Buxton reviews Carolyn Steel’s timely book on the links between architecture and food production
Heterotopia
Dot to dot results: June 27
04 July 2008
Last week’s competition winner was Fiona Coutts of Benjamin Tindall Architects, Edinburgh, who identified the New York Guggenheim by Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Dot to Dot July 4
Dot to Dot July 4
04 July 2008
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday July 9 for a chance to win a copy of Vanishing America: the End of Main Street by Michael Eastman
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