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@BDonline
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3 years
Breaking news: Peter Barber sweeps the board as RIBA London Award winners revealed | Glenn Howells’ English National Ballet named RIBA London Building of the Year 2021 (reporting by @swix ) @Glenn_Howells @PpeterPeter
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We must stop young architects selling their souls for their careers
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Breaking news: Four presidents and a rock star congratulate David Adjaye as he receives 2021 Royal Gold Medal | Virtual ceremony beamed around the world features Barack Obama and Bono (reporting by @swix )
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The fire safety scandal will not go away | The government defeated the Lords’ amendment to protect leaseholders from cladding costs. Now it must come up with a credible plan. All eyes are on next week's Queen's Speech, writes Lord Best
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We must act now to stop cars taking over our cities | The government’s £250m for redesigning our roads should be targeted at residential areas as well as town centres, says Giulio Ferrini @sustrans
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Gbolade Design Studio wins competition to redevelop Brixton community centre
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Chris Loyne's inspiration: Fallingwater, Pennsylvania |
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David Adjaye: One of the most important storytellers of our time | @simonedegale traces the architect’s significance from his early years to the present day
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The highly regarded architectural historian and campaigner for the preservation of modernist architecture, Elain Harwood, has died at the age of 64. @C20Society @HistoricEngland
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7 years
Scholarship announced in memory of young Italian architects who died in Grenfell fire | How to donate:
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The highly regarded architectural historian and campaigner for the preservation of modernist architecture, Elain Harwood, has died. @HistoricEngland @C20Society
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3 years
We must stop fetishising shiny new developments and instead demand regulation to make it harder to build 'bad buildings', architects and built environment specialists told #COP26 . @VKBurrows @Mariaisasmith Andrew Forth @RIBA @RolandHunziker1 (via @swix )
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7 years
A host of horrors - it's the #CarbuncleCup shortlist, announced today!
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'Adjaye said it was moving and quite surreal to have his name added to those carved into the walls of @RIBA HQ. As a youngster it felt like a club he was not part of, he said. Adjaye is the first black recipient of the Gold Medal in its 173-year history.'
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Four presidents and a rock star congratulate David Adjaye as he receives 2021 Royal Gold Medal
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Campaign group the Twentieth Century Society has submitted an application to get grade II*-listed status for Will Alsop’s Stirling Prize-winning Peckham Library, prompted by proposals for alterations to the building. @C20Society
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Sir Michael Hopkins, one of the most respected and influential figures in British architecture, has died at the age of 88. He is widely recognised as one of the most significant figures in British architecture over the past fifty years. @Hopkins_Arch
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3 years
Adjaye: I’m obsessed with rammed earth
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4 years
Massive congratulations to Office S&M who have won the Young Architect of the Year! @OfficeSandM #AYA2020 #YAYA2020
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3 years
BREAKING: Balkrishna Doshi has won @RIBA 's 2021 Gold Medal. RIBA president Simon Allford said Doshi had “influenced generations of architects through his delightfully purposeful architecture”.
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4 years
Websites are still selling the combustible insulation that was used on #Grenfell - with inaccurate data | Exclusive report by @TomLoweBuilding
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4 years
The @C20Society demands review of post-war listing policy | Conservationists furious over Halifax and Coventry cases (reporting by @swix )
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3 years
Architects demand tougher carbon controls on new buildings | Proposed Future Buildings Standard contains ‘significant shortcomings’, government warned (reporting by @swix )
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4 years
RIBA unearths archive recordings of lectures by pioneering women architects | Lectures have not been heard by the public for 35 years (reporting by @TomLoweBuilding ) #InternationalWomensDay
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Can Birmingham learn from past mistakes by keeping more of its old buildings?
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6 years
What is it about architects and urban design?
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3 years
Richard Rogers dies aged 88 | Architect and peer was an influential figure in urban thinking for more than half a century (reporting by @swix ) @RSHParchitects
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3 years
Anupama Kundoo wins 2021 Charles Jencks Award
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"There is a growing risk that less advantaged young people will be driven out of architecture because they cannot afford the cost of education and cannot survive on the low wages the profession pays." Naomi Fisher on low pay in architecture.
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5 years
Our streets could be the most democratic spaces in the city | They are our public living rooms and should be designed accordingly, writes @GiulioFerrini of @SustransLondon
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Congratulations to Arup Architecture who have won the award for Infrastructure Architect of the Year. @ArupArch AYA2020
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6 years
Fears as Southbank Centre granted immunity from listing
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6 years
The hotly contested young architect of the year award at this year’s @AYAwards has gone to #clancymoorearchitects while #richardbellarchitecture was highly commended #AYA2018
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Norman Foster on Rogers’ death: ‘I will miss you dearly’ | Richard Rogers’ earliest collaborator pays tribute to his friend in this moving obituary @RSHParchitects @FosterPartners
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5 years
What every architect should know about loneliness, by @SaraEVeale | Social isolation is as deadly as smoking. How can design bring people together in meaningful ways?
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Breaking news: Public Practice project skyrockets in scale | Council-placement scheme counts former Fosters partner and Marks Barfield director among 30-strong new cohort
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RMJM's York University listed
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Reader comment: 'Here I am struggling to get planners to accept a double-storey side extension that is well considered, contemporary and unusual, when this stupid thing flies through... planning is broken.'
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6 years
Fosters' Tulip gets OK from City planners - but likely to face public inquiry
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4 years
A huge congratulations to HTA Design who have won the Sustainability Architect of the Year sponsored by Kingspan! @HTADesignLLP @KingspanIns_UK
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3 years
Breaking news: All new buildings must emit a third less carbon, government announces | Building Regs to mandate 30% cut in carbon emissions from new homes and 27% from other buildings from this summer (reporting by @swix )
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5 years
Pritzker Prize gallery: Grafton Architects’ greatest hits
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Camden approves HS2 ‘sugar cube’ at Euston
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Muyiwa Oki wants more routes into the profession and a bigger focus on ordinary salaried architects instead of the starchitects. Read Tom Lowe's brilliant interview in Building Design. @RIBA @ben_derbyshire @BDonline
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Pressure mounts to stop radical AHMM makeover of Islington landmark
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Architects urge government to kickstart a housing revolution | Support local authorities to solve housing crisis for good and create 250,000 jobs, says RIBA (reporting by @swix )
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7 years
We should strip RIBA awards from practices that exploit interns
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Peter Barber sweeps the board as RIBA London Award winners revealed
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6 years
'Only 9% of our homes are designed by architects. Most of them are designed by people with no training in design and no history in it' - housing minister
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4 years
We’re delighted that our winner of Architectural Leader of the Year is Julia Park, Levitt Bernstein – congratulations! @LevittBernstein #AYA2020
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8 years
A scientific study tries to guage the brain’s psychological reaction to architecture & has some surprising results:
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3 years
Lutine Bell to be rung in Richard Rogers’ honour | Lloyd’s to enact historic ritual for architect of its grade I-listed HQ
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3 years
Peter Barber becomes a Royal Academician | Novelist and ‘architects’ conscience’ Hisham Matar also honoured (reporting by @swix ) @PpeterPeter @royalacademy @hishamjmatar
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Building Design
2 years
A high profile group of architects and academics have expressed solidarity with staff at the scandal-hit #Bartlett , describing @ucl 's investigation as "Kafkaesque" and accusing the university of setting off a "witch hunt" by students. @BartlettArchUCL
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4 years
RIBA president Alan Jones on Jenrick's planning reforms: “The government has missed a huge opportunity to make changes to the planning system for the better and we call for urgent reconsideration. Deregulation is not the way to bring about new homes.”
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Building Design
6 years
Breaking news: City planners set to give green light to Fosters’ Tulip
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4 years
Government urged to set up design quality unit for England | Decades of systemic failure can only be reversed with determined effort, say @civic_voice @CPRE @designcouncil @PlaceAllianceUK @UDGUrbanUpdate (reporting by @swix )
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4 years
Buttress submits £10.7m plans for Preston museum
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What architects should know about planners | RTPI chief executive @VictoriaRTPI hits back at Amin Taha’s remarks on planners' poor architectural knowledge
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7 years
Building Study: Lego hired @BjarkeIngels (who else!) to design its new home in Denmark. This is what he built:
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4 years
Planning reforms are ‘big opportunity’ to tear down brutalist buildings, says Jenrick
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37% of architects have had schemes cancelled and 79% say projects have been delayed as a result of coronavirus.
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Coffey scoops its biggest UK commercial project yet
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Diversity is not just a London issue. The regions need to discuss it now more than ever
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Zumthor, Mole and McGonigle McGrath join House of the Year fray
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The mysterious Indian architecture that's vanishing with barely a murmur ...
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Architects urge governments to decarbonise global building codes
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Grafton Architects’ Town House wins Stirling Prize
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Birmingham faces loss of another post-war building | James Roberts’ Triplex House slated for demolition @C20Society (reporting by @JordySMarshall )
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Peter Barber bags Neave Brown Award for Housing
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Japanese designers reveal floating city proposals
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Reform taxation to incentivise owners to retrofit private homes, says RIBA
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GPAD gets go-ahead for north London health-centre plans: Scheme will see redevelopment of 1970s building and creation of 11 new homes #architecture #news
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Coronavirus: What next for architecture? The UK embraced an architectural vision of a better world after the shock of WWII. Ike Ijeh asks Sarah Featherstone, @simonerridge @justinpnicholls @Judith_Sykes and Henry Squire if covid might have the same effect
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Go-ahead for FaulknerBrowns' Newcastle Civic Centre revamp
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Benoy unveils Nottingham Forest plans
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Architects join business leaders urging PM to prioritise sustainable recovery | @SunandPrasad @makeken , Kirsten Lees @GrimshawArch Alan Shingler @SheppardRobson Peter Fisher @BennettsAssocs and others tell Johnson to focus on low-carbon sectors
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Turn retail parks into housing estates, says Building Beautiful commission | Ash Sakula’s Newcastle housing praised in interim report
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C20 Society puts South Norwood on the map: Campaign group produces walking tour of High Street Heritage Action Zone in south London #architecture #news
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Breaking news: RIBA announces ‘biggest professional shake-up for 60 years’ | Architects may face revalidation every five years (reporting by @swix )
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6 years
And that’s a wrap on the @AYAwards for this year. Time for all our winners and nominees to celebrate #AYA2018
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Bishops ramp up pressure on government and industry over cladding scandal | Groups take ‘polluter pays’ message to Tory conference, as leaseholder’s suicide reported (reporting by @swix ) #grenfell #EOCS #PolluterPays @BishManchester @gtomlin
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A sunken garden designed by Edwin Lutyens, a prefabricated iron church and an 18th Century watermill drawn by landscape artist John Constable are among the highlights of Historic England’s annual round-up of newly listed sites. @HistoricEngland
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Breaking news: Beautiful schemes should be fast-tracked, urges Scruton commission | Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission also calls for ’minister of place’ in cabinet
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6 years
Carmody Groarke crowned Architect of the Year
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Arup pledges lifecycle carbon assessments on all projects | Firm also pledges to withdraw from energy schemes involving fossil fuels (reporting by @TomLoweBuilding ) @ArupGroup
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Review | 100 20th Century Houses by the Twentieth Century Society
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