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All rise for the Stirling Prize

The ‘old-style seated dinner’ at the annual Stirling Prize shindig has bitten the dust

Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners' 1986 Lloyd's Building in London. Image by Martin Charles

Rogers' Lloyd’s building set for £260m sale

Richard Rogers’ Lloyd’s building in London is reportedly in line to be sold for nearly £260 million

Bye bye Helter Skelter - Pinnacle to be redesigned

Sad news - the Helter Skelter as we once knew it is officially no more

Draw your own Festival Wing

Design your own Festival Wing

The AJ invites architects to sketch their own extension to the Southbank centre

The Hepworth Gallery by David Chipperfield Architects received the Special Award

Pritzker for Chipperfield?

AJ readers believe it is time David Chipperfield won the Pritzker Prize, according to an online survey

Southbanks Festival of Britian event

Outside M25: Students slam London-only comp

Northern students have blasted a new RIBA London competition only open to students of architecture schools in the capital

London City Airport. Image by Matt Biddulph

‘Village of the damned’: Docklands ‘stilt city’ in airport crash zone

Boris Johnson’s proposed floating village in the Royal Docks falls within an airport crash zone, campaigners have warned

Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has proposed a glazed ‘liner’ building and a semi-transparent, box-like sky pavilion, doubling the size of the Thameside, Brutalist complex

The Twitterati verdict on FCBS’ Southbank overhaul

[Warning: contains vitriol] Twittersphere reaction to Feilden Clegg Bradley’s £120 million Southbank revamp was mixed, but most agreed it looked like a ‘big glass box’

TV’s Restoration Man George Clarke

Restoration Man not happy with Pathfinder Redux demolition men

TV’s Restoration Man George Clarke has distanced himself from the latest Return of Pathfinder-style demolitions proposed for the Welsh Streets area of Liverpool

Dixon Jones, Squire and Partners and Kim Wilkie Associates’ redrawn masterplan for the redevelopment of Chelsea Barracks in west London

Chelsea Barracks ‘to go ahead’

The £3 billion redevelopment of Chelsea Barracks in West London is reported to be back on track

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Sex and statues - the George Square farce continues

It’s safe to say the competition to overhaul Glasgow’s George Square has not run smoothly

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Spoof Southend Pier airport plan revealed

An outfit calling itself ‘Makeit Architects’ has mooted a satirical proposal for an international airport hub on Southend Pier

Carl Turner Architects' Sliphouse in Brixton

RIBA Awards debate: What is being built today, and is it any good?

13-Jun-2013

Are the RIBA award winners really the best buildings in the UK and what do they say about the state of architecture today?

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Rogers' Cheesegrater becomes tallest building in the City

19-Jun-2013

Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners’ Leadenhall Building was topped out by Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, yesterday

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Camden approves Avanti, Duggan Morris & Mæ's Holborn proposals

19-Jun-2013

Camden Council has given the go-ahead for the £20 million revamp of the Tybalds Estate in Holborn, London

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Landscape lobby labels Farrell Review ‘a missed opportunity’

19-Jun-2013

The Landscape Institute has called on the Farrell Review of architecture to focus on ‘liveable cities’

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