Housing

Under-fire council redrafts affordable housing contest brief

27-Nov-2009 | By Andrea Klettner

Furious architects have prompted Islington Council to rethink its affordable housing design contest

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Tonkin Liu's The Lifting Wave, the Resting Wave and the Light Wave, Dover

Tonkin Liu wins green light for Dover seafront scheme

27-Nov-2009 | By Richard Waite

[FIRST LOOK] Kent County Council has given the thumbs up to Tonkin Liu’s competition-winning scheme to revive Dover’s esplanade

Glenn Howell Architects has been chosen to oversee the £8 million remodelling of the The National Memorial Arboretum

Glenn Howells wins scheme to rework Armed Forces arboretum

27-Nov-2009 | By Richard Waite

[FIRST LOOK] Glenn Howells Architects has been chosen to oversee the £8 million remodelling of the The National Memorial Arboretum (NMA) in Alrewas in Staffordshire

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BSF procurement review: RIBA's Smart PFI takes step closer

27-Nov-2009 | By Richard Waite

Partnerships for Schools (PfS) is to look again at its procurement process in bid to slash timescales and reduce costs across the £45 billion Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme

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Top 5: Rollercoaster architecture

27-Nov-2009 | By Hayley Chivers

Following the announcement that Dreamland in Kent will be renovated, the AJ looks at the most extreme and inventive architecture-themed rollercoasters in the world

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New Practices #7: Robin Partington Architects

27-Nov-2009 | By Richard Waite

The seventh in a series of practice profiles looking at architects who have recently decided to go it alone either through choice or redundancy

Building Study

Malawi schools project by John McAslan + Partners- Elevation

Malawi schools project by John McAslan + Partners

26-Nov-2009 | By Hannah Lawson

When John McAslan + Partners was invited to develop a prototype school building in Malawi, the team went back to basics in its approach. Photography by Eldson Chagara

RCA's Sackler Building, Battersea by Haworth Tompkins

RCA's Sackler Building, Battersea by Haworth Tompkins

26-Nov-2009 | By Edwin Heathcote

Haworth Tompkins’ building for the Royal College of Art both regenerates Battersea and honours its manufacturing past, says Edwin Heathcote. Photography by Philip Vile and Helene Binet

MAXXI museum in Rome

MAXXI museum, Rome by Zaha Hadid Architects

19-Nov-2009 | By Rowan Moore

True to form, Zaha Hadid’s long-awaited MAXXI museum in Rome is bold, demanding and provocative, says Rowan Moore.Photography by Roland Halbe

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31-Mar-2009 | Updated: 18-Nov-2009 | By James Pallister

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Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre, South Africa

Video: Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre wins World Building of the Year

6-Nov-2009

South African architect Peter Rich is the second winner of the World Building of the Year award, for a building on the site of an ancient civilisation

Ian Martin

A sounding board for what sounding boards ought to look like

26-Nov-2009 | By Ian Martin

A very congenial six-hour ‘thinking lunch’ helps Ian Martin formulate a 10-point plan

Zaha Hadid

Zaha Hadid's journey to the top

27-Nov-2009 | By Astragal

To Rome for the opening of Zaha Hadid’s splendid MAXXI, which has had critics metaphorically trampling over each in other in the crush for superlatives

George W. Bush Presidential Center

George Bush goes to the library

26-Nov-2009 | By Astragal

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a US President, upon retiring from political office, must be in want of a library

The first one per cent fee - it's blarney

20-Nov-2009

Don’t believe the rumours – the design team for the Children’s Hospital in Dublin isn’t working for a one per cent margin

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