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Neo Bankside residents lose battle to stop Tate Modern visitors looking into their flats

February 13, 2019 India Block 0

Residents of the Neo Bankside housing have had their claim that Tate Modern’s Herzog & de Meuron-designed extension invades their privacy dismissed by the high court. Five claimants went to the high court to argue that the privacy of their homes in the Rogers Stirck Harbour + Partners-designed apartment blocks on London’s South Bank, were being

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Architects should “meet us half way” on Building Better Building Beautiful Commission says UK housing minister

February 12, 2019 India Block 0

UK minister for housing Kit Malthouse has defended the Building Better Building Beautiful Commission, calling on architects to work with him to resist bland, developer-led housing. Speaking to Dezeen, Malthouse asked for the architectural profession to “meet me halfway” to push developers to “allow beauty into their work”. He said the point of the government

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Brutalist Welbeck Street car park will definitely be demolished

February 11, 2019 India Block 0

Brutalist Welbeck Street car park will be demolished

London’s brutalist-era Welbeck Street car park is to be torn down and replaced by a luxury hotel, despite campaigns to save its unique facade. Last week Westminister Council approved plans submitted by Shiva Hotels to demolish the brutalist car park, designed in 1971 by Michael Blampied and Partners, and replace it with a 10-storey hotel. Sold

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Brutalist Welbeck Street car park will definitely be demolished

February 11, 2019 India Block 0

London’s brutalist-era Welbeck Street car park is to be torn down and replaced by a luxury hotel, despite campaigns to save its unique facade. Last week Westminister Council approved plans submitted by Shiva Hotels to demolish the brutalist car park, designed in 1971 by Michael Blampied and Partners, and replace it with a 10-storey hotel. Sold

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Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio win Royal Academy Architecture Prize 2019

February 8, 2019 India Block 0

This year’s Royal Academy Architecture Prize has been awarded to Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio, founders of Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Awarded annually to architects whose work engages the public and contributes to culture, the prize recognises the duo for a portfolio that includes The Broad art museum in Los Angeles and The Shed in New

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Architecture can combat fake news, says David Adjaye

February 7, 2019 India Block 0

David Adjaye, who has curated the Making Memory Exhibition at the Design Museum, says architecture can counteract fiction in history

David Adjaye says museums, monuments and memorials should be sites of resistance against those “propagating fictions” about climate change, civil rights or the holocaust. Speaking to Dezeen at the launch of his exhibition Making Memory at London’s Design Museum last week, the British-Ghanian architect said architects need to work to counter false narratives that could be

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David Adjaye curates Making Memory exhibition at the Design Museum

February 4, 2019 India Block 0

David Adjaye curated Making Memory, and exhibition of his work at London's Design Museum

David Adjaye has created a “provocation or a question” for the public with an exhibition on his monuments and memorials at the Design Museum in London. Making Memory covers seven major works, built and unbuilt, by Adjaye Associates, including the recently completed Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC, and

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Grenfell Tower fire wouldn’t have happened “if it hadn’t been so ugly” says Roger Scruton

January 31, 2019 India Block 0

Roger Scruton talks at Central Saint Martins

Roger Scruton, chair of the UK government’s Building Better Building Beautiful Commission, says that bad design was behind the Grenfell Tower fire that killed 72 people. Taking part in a debate about Beauty at Central Saint Martins on 24 January, the philosopher suggested that the recladding of Grenfell Tower, which contributed to the spread of the

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“Be more positive and less paranoid” about technology says Patrik Schumacher

January 30, 2019 India Block 0

Patrick Schumacher at the NLA's Campari Talks debate on factory-made housing

Digital platforms and AI could be the future of customising prefabricated modular housing if we are less wary of technology, says Patrik Schumacher. Using artificial intelligence (AI) to help customise mass-produced housing would eventually make it cheaper, argued Schumacher principal of Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA). Speaking at debate on factory-made housing at the New London Architecture’s

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M+ museum acquires Archigram archive for £1.8 million

January 25, 2019 India Block 0

The soon-to-open M+ museum in Hong Kong has bought the entire archive of influential British architecture collective Archigram, despite attempts to block the overseas sale. Tens of thousands of drawings and models produced by the 1960s group will be moved from storage in the UK to the Herzog & de Meuron-designed M+, set to open later

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