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Hanif Kara wins 2024 Soane Medal for architecture

October 8, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Structural engineer and AKT II co-founder Hanif Kara has been named the winner of this year’s Soane Medal for “realising some of the most recognisable architectural projects across the globe”. Since co-founding London-based firm AKT II with Albert Williamson-Taylor and Robin Adams in 1996, Kara has overseen the engineering of several high-profile projects, including four

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Cobe set to transform “treasure box” steelworks site into Tallinn neighbourhood

October 8, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Abandoned steelworks buildings will be repurposed into public space as part of Danish studio Cobe’s design for a city district in Tallinn, Estonia. Located in the historic Krulli quarter, Cobe plans to transform the former steelworks site while maintaining its industrial identity by reusing most of the existing structures. The studio aims to attract jobs and

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Twentieth Century Society calls for preservation of “just one set of cooling towers”

October 3, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

As the UK closes its last coal-fired power station, conservation group Twentieth Century Society is running a campaign to preserve a set of cooling towers. Hyperboloid thermal towers, more commonly known as cooling towers, were once a common site across the UK, but after largely becoming obsolete they are rapidly being demolished. With the UK’s

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“Hotel in nature” in Singapore named Best Tall Building Worldwide

October 2, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

The 23-storey Pan Pacific Orchard skyscraper in Singapore by architecture studio WOHA has won the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat’s award for the world’s best new tall building. Set in the city’s Orchard Road district, the 350-room hotel has four large planted terraces cut into the building’s rectangular form. The Council on Tall

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BIG set to top Museum for Paper Art with “a single sheet of paper”

September 24, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

Danish architecture studio BIG is expanding a former Aldi supermarket in North Jutland, Denmark, to create a museum with a folded roof that emulates a sheet of paper. Named Museum for Paper Art, the building is being developed by BIG in collaboration with psaligrapher Bit Vejle to celebrate the history of paper art in Denmark.

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Dezeen to host Global China architecture and design exhibition in Shanghai

September 24, 2024 Christina Yao 0

Dezeen has curated an exhibition during the World Design Cities Conference in Shanghai to showcase works by Chinese and international architects and designers that successfully bridge east and west. Titled Global China: Connecting the World Through Design, the exhibition will take place from 27 to 30 September in Shanghai. It will feature six architecture and

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Zaha Hadid Architects creates parametric London for Fortnite game

September 23, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

UK studio Zaha Hadid Architects has collaborated with software developer Epic Games to create a parametric-style version of London that players can build on in the video game Fortnite. In the Re:Imagine London game, Fortnite players are dropped into a creator-made island on London’s waterfront, which has been populated with curved buildings in keeping with Zaha Hadid

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“Proud Mancunian” Norman Foster to create Manchester United stadium masterplan

September 23, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

English football club Manchester United has appointed Foster + Partners to created a masterplan for the redevelopment of the land surrounding its Old Trafford stadium in Manchester, UK. The football club is set to redevelop the site to create “a world-class football destination”, ahead of plans to redevelop the stadium, which is the largest in the

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RIAS unveils five-strong shortlist for Scotland’s best building

September 19, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

RIAS has unveiled the shortlist for the 2024 Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland award, which includes projects by Moxon Architects, John McAslan + Partners, Page\Park Architects and Reiach and Hall Architects. The five projects in the running to be Scotland’s best building include three renovated buildings – The Burrell Collection by John McAslan + Partners,

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RIBA reveals UK’s best affordable housing for 2024

September 18, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

The revamp of a 1960s estate and a stepped brick terrace on an infill site feature on the 2024 shortlist for the Royal Institute of British Architects’ Neave Brown Award for Housing. A neighbourhood with 235 socially rented homes also features on the four-strong shortlist, alongside apartments tailored to older residents on a vacant brownfield

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