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World Architecture Festival is failing to attract enough leading female architects as speakers despite efforts to improve its gender balance, according to organiser Paul Finch. At this year’s World Architecture Festival (WAF) 30 per cent of the 125 award judges were women, and just 27 per cent of the speakers female – although the speaker’s page of the

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The daughter of late Italian architect Paolo Soleri has alleged that he sexually molested and attempted to rape her as a teenager. In an open letter published on Medium, titled “Sexual abuse: it’s you, him, and his work”, Daniela Soleri details an abusive relationship with her father – an architect heralded for his visionary, environmentally conscious

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More supertall skyscrapers were completed in 2017 than any previous year, with the tallest coming in at 599 metres, according to new industry research. The annual report from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) reveals that 144 supertalls – skyscrapers of 200 metres or higher – were finished in 2017, across 23 different countries.

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The future of the Santiago Calatrava-designed Greek Orthodox church at New York’s World Trade Center looks uncertain, as the archdiocese has failed to pay construction fees. Work on the Saint Nicholas National Shrine, designed by the Spanish architect to replace a 19th-century building destroyed during the 9/11 terrorist attacks, has been suspended indefinitely. Construction had been underway for

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