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Stirling Prize: Chipperfield's odds slashed as punters back Neues
Bookmaker William Hill has slashed the odds of David Chipperfield winning this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize after a flurry of punters waged money on the architect’s shortlisted Neues Museum in Berlin
Architecture returns to Hull
Hull now has a new architecture school, seven years after the original Hull School of Architecture was shipped out to Lincoln
Brady vows to make architects integral to the Big Society
Angela Brady, future president of the RIBA, has vowed to make the institute more outward-looking and position architects at the heart of the coalition government’s Big Society plans
Funding axed on North West projects
Regional development agency funding cut in a bid to lose £52 million from local budget Architecture projects in the North West of England have had their regional development agency (RDA) funding slashed.
Louis de Soisson's WGC house up for grabs
The former home of Welwyn Garden City founder and architect, Louis de Soissons, is now up for sale with a £1.35 million price tag
EH demands Liverpool Waters scale back
The £5.5 billion plans for Liverpool Waters have sparked concerns that could the city’s World Heritage Site status could be put in jeopardy
Building Study
‘Localism can, and does, improve the quality of the built environment’
In this personal account of urban regeneration in south London, Rory Olcayto juxtaposes a top-down development in Elephant and Castle with ground-up localism in Peckham
The Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, by Ellis Williams Architects
‘Simplicity, sophistication, and one or two surprises’, says Felix Mara. Photography by Hélène Binet.
Technical & Practice: Rainscreen cladding
Llewelyn Davies Yeang’s cladding for the Great Ormond Street Hospital redevelopment project is bespoke but easy to build, says Felix Mara
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Top Ten London Architecture Units
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AR June 1975 − Willis-Faber and Dumas Building by Foster Associates, Ipswich, UK
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The renovation of Ghent’s public squares strives to incorporate both the old and the new
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Halley VI Antarctic Research Station by Hugh Broughton Architects, Brunt Ice Self, Antarctica
Ian Martin
Farewell to a jazz architecture legend, hello to a mighty hangover
Ian Martin explores some Portable Dystopia
Competitions
The Critics
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
Architecture makes the most of its generous new space at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, with work that is less style, more substance, writes Gillian Darley
Ulf Hackauf: The black and white of green
Ulf Hackauf, principal of MVRDV’s think-tank The Why Factory, explains why his book advocates less hype and more ambition in building the future’s sustainable cities
Canterbury School of Architecture at the University for the Creative Arts
Canterbury shares a campus with a flourishing art college founded by the artist Sidney Cooper in 1882
Shanghai Expo 2010: As it happens
Experience the highlights, humidity and hype from the Shanghai Expo 2010 world trade fair. Hear from, among others, the 14-strong RIBA delegation as it enjoys the pavilions of different nations and also tries to find some work…
Working Detail: PassivHaus methodology
[WORKING DETAIL 28.02.08] PassivHaus methodology- could this be successfully imported to the UK?
Working Detail: Sevenoaks School, by Tim Ronalds Architects
[WORKING DETAIL 24.04.10] Auditorium roof construction
Working Detail: West Buckland School, by Rundell Architects
[WORKING DETAIL 13.05.10] Terraced seating and entrance staircase
Working Detail: Broadcasting Place, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
[WORKING DETAIL 22.04.10] Facade construction
Astragal gossip column
Alsop cursed by criticism
Last week, a second scathing attack took place on Will Alsop’s architecture within the walls of the Royal Academy
The AR turns Japanese
Website domain names can be tricky things.
Shanghai Expo 2010: As it happens
Experience the highlights, humidity and hype from the Shanghai Expo 2010 world trade fair. Hear from, among others, the 14-strong RIBA delegation as it enjoys the pavilions of different nations and also tries to find some work…
Hit the bottom
Everyone who shed a tear over the scheduled flattening of Owen Luder’s Get Carter car park in Gateshead, and then cheered when demolition was halted in March, had better look for another hanky
Gum crime
London mayor Boris Johnson convened a chewing-gum summit last week to jumpstart an attack on the gum litter estimated to cost the capital up to £10 million annually.
