Migration is vital to UK architecture RIBA has warned, as a new report reveals nearly half of EU architects have considered leaving because of Brexit. The Royal Institute for British Architects (RIBA) is concerned Brexit and the end of freedom of movement could put the country’s £4.8 billion architecture sector in “jeopardy”. One in four
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Eighteen new supertall skyscrapers were completed in 2018, the highest number ever in a single year, with China continuing to dominate the tall building charts. China led the race for the skies, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) annual report revealed, accounting for 11 of the completed supertalls – skyscrapers over 300 metres high
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The inaugural Tbilisi Architecture Biennial saw architects create installations across the city suburb of Gldani. Here are 10 of the best, from a group of “migrating” sheds to a series of colourful self-made structures. Held between 26 October and 3 November, with the theme Buildings Are Not Enough, the Tbilisi Architecture Biennial 2018 offered architects a platform to
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Tbilisi is at a crossroads, with its architectural heritage being eroded and the future of the city under threat from rapid development. But there are reasons to be optimistic, according to architects at the city’s inaugural architecture biennial. The Tbilisi Architecture Biennial 2018, which took place from 26 October to 3 November, was set up
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The Berthold Lubetkin-designed Penguin Pool at London Zoo, an icon of modernist architecture, should be demolished says the architect’s daughter. The pool, created by Lubetkin and the Tecton Group in 1934, has been empty for 15 years, because penguins contracted bumblefoot infection from walking on the concrete. Sasha Lubetkin told local paper the Camden New Journal that the pool
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Patrik Schumacher’s court documents reveal the executors of Zaha Hadid’s estate tried to have her name removed from the eponymous practice. The business partner of the late British Iraqi architect made the claim within a 20-page document submitted to the UK’s High Court seen by British architecture website BD. Schumacher also stated that he had been asked to
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Patrik Schumacher’s court documents reveal the executors of Zaha Hadid’s estate tried to have her name removed from the eponymous practice. Read more
Patrik Schumacher’s court documents reveal the executors of Zaha Hadid’s estate tried to have her name removed from the eponymous practice. Read more
A masterplan drawn up by architecture firm Snøhetta envisions an “island” neighbourhood for 12,000 students off the Danube river in south Budapest. Snøhetta won the Budapest South Gate International Masterplan Design Competition with its design, which involves creating a new channel of water off the Danube branch to form a new peninsular. Accommodation for 12,000 students is proposed across the
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Ghana’s first Building Code marks a pivotal moment for architecture and construction in the country, says Ghanian British architect David Adjaye. Adjaye welcomed the first official Ghana Building Code, which the Ghanaian government introduced at the end of last year, saying that it was a “highly significant step”. The Ghanian British architect who was knighted for services to
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