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US president Joe Biden has officially undone Donald Trump’s executive order requiring new federal buildings to be built in the classical style, 69 days after it was signed. Biden announced a batch of revocations on 24 February 2021 including executive order 13967, titled Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture. The controversial order requiring all new government

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UK prime minister Boris Johnson has proposed connecting England, Scotland and Northern Ireland via tunnels connected to a giant underground roundabout beneath the Isle of Man. The roundabout, nicknamed the Douglas Junction after the Isle of Man’s capital, would be accessed by two tunnels from England, one from Scotland and one from Northern Ireland, reported

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Dorte Mandrup has announced its plans to convert the Saalecker Workshops, the former home of German architect Paul Schultze-Naumburg, into an international design academy. The adaptive reuse project is an attempt to repurpose the “uncomfortable monument” near the town of Naumburg in central Germany into a space that celebrates free-thinking and diversity. Once complete, it

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Sumayya Vally, the founder of South African architecture studio Counterspace, has been named on the Time100 Next list of people “poised to make history”. Vally, who is designing this year’s Serpentine pavilion, is the principal of Johannesburg-based architecture studio Counterspace. She was the only architect named on the list that aims to “highlight 100 emerging leaders who are shaping

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Sumayya Vally, the founder of South African architecture studio Counterspace, has been named on the Time100 Next list of people “poised to make history”. Vally, who is designing this year’s Serpentine pavilion, is the principal of Johannesburg-based architecture studio Counterspace. She was the only architect named on the list that aims to “highlight 100 emerging leaders who are shaping

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The 50 Hudson Yards supertall skyscraper designed by architecture studio Foster + Partners has reached its full height in New York as Facebook plans to move in. Under construction as part of the Hudson Yards development in west Manhatten, the 58-storey skyscraper will contain offices when it completes. The final beam on the 1,011-foot-tall (308 metres) building was

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