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Heatherwick’s overhaul of New York Philharmonic concert hall scrapped

October 5, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Thomas Heatherwick has suffered his third cancelled project in as many months, with his studio’s plans to revamp the David Geffen Hall at New York’s Lincoln Center now no longer going ahead. The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and the New York Philharmonic announced they are scrapping London-based Heatherwick Studio and Canadian firm Diamond Schmitt Architects’

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Heatherwick’s overhaul of New York Philharmonic concert hall scrapped

October 5, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Thomas Heatherwick has suffered his third cancelled project in as many months, with his studio’s plans to revamp the David Geffen Hall at New York’s Lincoln Center now no longer going ahead. The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and the New York Philharmonic announced they are scrapping London-based Heatherwick Studio and Canadian firm Diamond Schmitt Architects’

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Heatherwick’s overhaul of New York Philharmonic concert hall scrapped

October 5, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Thomas Heatherwick has suffered his third cancelled project in as many months, with his studio’s plans to revamp the David Geffen Hall at New York’s Lincoln Center now no longer going ahead. The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and the New York Philharmonic announced they are scrapping London-based Heatherwick Studio and Canadian firm Diamond Schmitt Architects’

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UK government’s £2 billion housing pledge is not high enough, says RIBA president Ben Derbyshire

October 5, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

UK prime minister Theresa May has committed an extra £2 billion to building new affordable housing – but the figure is nowhere near high enough to solve the housing crisis, according to Royal British Institute of Architects president Ben Derbyshire. Derbyshire, who took on the role of RIBA president last month, said that much more funding is necessary

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UK government’s £2 billion housing pledge is not high enough, says RIBA president Ben Derbyshire

October 5, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

UK prime minister Theresa May has committed an extra £2 billion to building new affordable housing – but the figure is nowhere near high enough to solve the housing crisis, according to Royal British Institute of Architects president Ben Derbyshire. Derbyshire, who took on the role of RIBA president last month, said that much more funding is necessary

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UK government’s £2 billion housing pledge is not high enough, says RIBA president Ben Derbyshire

October 5, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

UK prime minister Theresa May has committed an extra £2 billion to building new affordable housing – but the figure is nowhere near high enough to solve the housing crisis, according to Royal British Institute of Architects president Ben Derbyshire. Derbyshire, who took on the role of RIBA president last month, said that much more funding is necessary

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UK government’s £2 billion housing pledge is not high enough, says RIBA president Ben Derbyshire

October 5, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

UK prime minister Theresa May has committed an extra £2 billion to building new affordable housing – but the figure is nowhere near high enough to solve the housing crisis, according to Royal British Institute of Architects president Ben Derbyshire. Derbyshire, who took on the role of RIBA president last month, said that much more funding is necessary

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Foster + Partner’s Bloomberg headquarters is the “world’s most sustainable office”

October 4, 2017 India Block 0

The first photos have been released of Norman Forster’s newly completed European headquarters for Bloomberg in London, which claims to be the world’s most sustainable office building. British firm Foster + Partners designed the building for the New York-based FinTech and data company to score highly against the BREEAM environmental assessment method. The building, which features a facade covered

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Foster + Partners unveils plans for Budapest’s tallest building

October 4, 2017 Amy Frearson 0

Foster + Partners has unveiled plans to create a sustainable office campus for a Hungarian oil and gas company, centred around a 28-storey skyscraper. Intended to set “a new benchmark both for Budapest and Hungary”, the new headquarters for MOL Group will give the Hungarian capital its tallest building. The architecture firm has not revealed how

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Winning design chosen for Norwegian government headquarters following 2011 terrorist attack

October 3, 2017 India Block 0

Haptic and Nordic Office of Architecture have won the competition to redesign the Norwegian government headquarters after it was damaged during a fatal terrorist attack six years ago. The winning proposal called Adapt was developed by Nordic Office of Architecture and Haptic under the same Team Urbis. The architects are working with engineering firm Ramboll, landscape studios SLA and Bjørbekk & Lindheim, and consultants Asplan Viak, COWI, Aas-Jacobsen, Per Rasmussen,

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