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Bamboo scaffolding has been blamed for contributing to the spread of an enormous high-rise building fire in Hong Kong that has claimed at least 55 lives. The blaze broke out at the Wang Fuk Court residential apartment complex in Hong Kong’s Tai Po district on Wednesday afternoon. It then spread across seven of the complex’s

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Bamboo scaffolding has been blamed for contributing to the spread of an enormous high-rise building fire in Hong Kong that has claimed at least 55 lives. The blaze broke out at the Wang Fuk Court residential apartment complex in Hong Kong’s Tai Po district on Wednesday afternoon. It then spread across seven of the complex’s

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Amateur Architecture Studio founders Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu have been chosen as the curators of the 2027 edition of the Venice Architecture Biennale, with aims to combat “the death of architecture”. The two Chinese architects, who have won numerous awards, established their own studio in 1997 and also founded the architecture department at the China

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The Dallas city government has voted to explore relocating and selling the brutalist city hall designed by architect IM Pei, placing the building under increased threat of demolition. Earlier this month, Dallas City Council voted to review the status of the 1970s building as the government’s home. The city manager was tasked with determining the

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Loans available to architecture students in the USA will be reduced under the terms of president Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, as architecture will not be considered a professional degree. Under the terms of the One Big Beautiful Bill, the provision of student loans in the USA will be overhauled starting 1 July, 2026,

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Work has begun on a looped Christian landmark named the Eternal Wall of Answered Prayer, which was designed by UK studio Snug Architects to rise over 50 metres in Warwickshire. Snug Architects designed the sculptural, ribbon-like structure as a Möbius strip – a continuous concrete band that curves and twists in a loop. The Eternal Wall

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Detroit developer Bedrock has announced a new round of funding for a controversial scheme to redevelop the John Portman-designed Renaissance Center, with new renderings of the project. Bedrock announced that Detroit’s Downtown Development Authority (DDA) had committed $75 million to the project, which will see the demolition of two out of seven skyscrapers in the

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