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The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland has appointed Glasgow-based architect Robin Webster as its new president, a year after a scandal that saw former chief Neil Baxter step down. Glasgow-based architect Webster, co-founder of CameronWebster Architects, promises to bring change to the organisation, which was accused of financial mismanagement by over 150 architects. He praised all

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A man has died after being hit by a window that fell from a penthouse of the Foster + Partners-designed Corniche towers in London. The man, who was in his 50s, was struck by something that had come loose from the 85-metre-high tower on the Albert Embankment on 2 October 2018. He was pronounced dead

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Mexican architect, curator and writer José Esparza Chong Cuy has been appointed as the new head of New York’s Storefront for Art and Architecture. Esparza was named as the new executive director and chief curator by the Manhattan-based organisation today. He will replace Eva Franch i Gilabert, who left to become the director of the Architectural Association school in London earlier

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The UK government is set to announce a ban on all combustible cladding, including the type used to refurbish Grenfell Tower before the fatal fire in 2017, on buildings over 18 metres high. Speaking at the Conservative Party conference today, housing secretary James Brokenshire will say that the shock of the “unimaginable horror” of the Grenfell Tower

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