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Happy birthday Zaha Hadid (1950-2016): 'A woman who believed her architecture would change the world' @ZHA_News

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Goldsmith Street has won the RIBA #StirlingPrize ! Mikhail Riches & Cathy Hawley's project is the first ever council housing scheme to win

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Breaking: Sadiq Khan has rejected Foster + Partners’ Tulip tower

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Sadiq Khan has rejected Foster + Partners’ Tulip tower, saying 'the design is of insufficient quality for such a prominent location' (cartoon by Hellman)

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Q: How do we make buildings more sustainable? 🤔 A: Simples. By not demolishing them. 🙄 #RetroFirst #climatecrisis ♻️

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Astragal: Keanu Reeves studying to become an architect

Astragal: Keanu Reeves studying to become an architect

When Keanu Reeves isn’t making unexpected guest appearances at weddings, he likes to make the odd Ho...

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'She believed her architecture would change the world' – Zaha Hadid has been voted architecture students' favourite role model

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Black Females in Architecture: ‘We are here to shape our city’

Selasi Setufe doesn’t hesitate when asked about the long-term goals of the Black Females in Architec...

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Congratulations to Mexican architect Frida Escobedo, who has been chosen to design this year’s Serpentine Pavilion

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Developer Igloo has revealed these Glasgow modular homes designed by six local practices

Igloo reveals six architects’ modular home designs for Glasgow site

Igloo Regeneration has revealed plans, drawn up by six Glasgow practices, for a low-carbon, customis...

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Gove backs creation of design school to ‘revive traditional architecture’

The report, published by right-wing think-tank Policy Exchange last week, is authored by architect a...

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NEWS: Ben Pentreath lodges plans for Prince William-backed 2,500-home Kent estate

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RIP Will Alsop (1947–2018)

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Breaking: Neo Bankside residents have lost their case against Tate Modern

Neo Bankside residents lose case against Tate Modern

Five residents of the building had taken the Tate to the High Court in an attempt to win an injuncti...

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‘It’s a sad day for anyone who cares about the character of the public realm, and sends out a depressing message that such genuinely innovative modern buildings can be simply swept away to make way for yet more contemporary blanditecture’

Fate of Brutalist car park sealed as Westminster councillors approve demolition

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BREAKING: The winner of the 2021 #StirlingPrize is Grafton Architects’ Kingston Town House 🏆

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Fourth time lucky! The winner of the 2022 RIBA #StirlingPrize is Níall McLaughlin Architects for the New Library at Magdalene College in Cambridge. Read the full story and reaction here 👉

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17 Stirling Prize-winning practices - including Foster + Partners and Zaha Hadid Architects - have united to declare a climate emergency #architectsdeclare

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Zaha Hadid Architects’ all-timber stadium approved by football league

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Meis Architects unveils design of Everton FC's new stadium

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'She believed her architecture would change the world' – Zaha Hadid has been voted architecture students' favourite role model

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Most of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics will take place in existing buildings – some were even used in the 1964 games. How's that for an Olympic legacy? #RetroFirst

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Astragal: Keanu Reeves studying to become an architect

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⛔ 'We’ve got to stop mindlessly pulling buildings down' 🗞️ BBC News covers our #RetroFirst ♻️ campaign @WHurst1 @RHarrabin

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Denise Scott Brown has been awarded the 2018 Soane Medal 🏅 for her ‘profound and far-reaching’ contribution to architecture #womeninarchitecture

Denise Scott Brown awarded Soane Medal for contribution to architecture

The prize is the second ever awarded by the Sir John Soane Museum in London, given to architects who...

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💳 It costs over £100k to study architecture 👪 81% are reliant on the bank of mum and dad 😟 45% think they will never be debt-free ...so is architecture now only for the rich?

Student survey: Only the rich need apply to study architecture

As the price tag of an architectural education stretches beyond £100,000 – this year’s AJ student su...

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The London Festival of Architecture has launched a contest for a series of small landscaped spaces throughout the City of London

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There is a growing argument that landscape should drive the layout of the buildings rather than the other way around, says @HattieHartman

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Coming soon – an AJ documentary on the legacy of Zaha Hadid #InternationalWomensDay #womeninarchitecture

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BREAKING: The Tulip – designed by Foster + Partners – has been rejected over embodied carbon and heritage concerns.

Tulip rejected over embodied carbon and heritage concerns

The decision ends years of planning wrangling, which started in 2018 when Fosters submitted plans fo...

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Zaha Hadid Architects has completed this 40,000-seater stadium in Qatar for the 2022 World Cup. The roof closes so the stadium can be used during the summer months

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Here are the six buildings shortlisted for this year's RIBA #StirlingPrize 👏👏👏

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NEWS: 'The world of architecture has lost a star today': Tributes flood in for #ZahaHadid

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AJ News: EU construction work falls again: EU construction work has fallen yet again http://t.co/CNbDaksr8c

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Bell Phillips Architects has designed a 430-home scheme in Westminster

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⚠️ Breaking news! ⚠️ Pritzker Prize 2020 goes to Grafton co-founders: ‘pioneers in a male-dominated profession’ 🏆🏆🏆

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An 175-year-old railway station – and Dad's Army filming location – has been spared demolition

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In just two years the number of architecture students reporting mental health problems has risen from 1 in 4 to 1 in 3. Urgent action is needed, says @ScottwbMcAulay #mentalhealth @AlanJones2008 @RIBA

With one in three students suffering, it’s time the RIBA and schools acted on mental health

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Congratulations to Peter Barber @PpeterPeter , winner of the 2021 AJ100 Contribution to the Profession Award 🏆 #AJ100

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'While society faces a global environmental emergency and a chronic housing shortage, this win shows us what architecture can and should be doing' AJ editor @emjbooth on the #StirlingPrize

Stirling Prize sends a message about sustainability and social purpose

So a council housing scheme on the edge of Norwich city centre hasn’t just been nominated for the RI...

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In an appeal to Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, @MrGeorgeClarke wrote: ‘I’m begging you both … please sort out the cladding scandal once and for all’ #CladdingScandal

TV architect George Clarke blasts government over ‘shambolic cladding scandal’

Clarke said he was posting the video, filmed from his garden on the night of the fire in June 2017, ...

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In an appeal to Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, @MrGeorgeClarke wrote: ‘I’m begging you both … please sort out the cladding scandal once and for all’ #CladdingScandal

TV architect George Clarke blasts government over ‘shambolic cladding scandal’

Clarke said he was posting the video, filmed from his garden on the night of the fire in June 2017, ...

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On #WorldArchitectureDay we are celebrating #womeninarchitecture . Entry to the Women in Architecture Awards is open!

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How was the Garden Bridge Trust able to spend £46m on a non-existent bridge? @FourthStreetDan @WHurst1 @mrjamesob

How was the Garden Bridge Trust able to spend £46m on a non-existent bridge?

As of today, the Garden Bridge Trust (GBT) is 90 days past the deadline for filing its accounts with...

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Put your poster up! 💚 Support AJ’s #RetroFirst campaign ♻️ Tag us in any pics – your support will strengthen our campaign demands in tax, policy and procurement when we present them to government

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‘It’s a sad day for anyone who cares about the character of the public realm, and sends out a depressing message that such genuinely innovative modern buildings can be simply swept away to make way for yet more contemporary blanditecture’

Fate of Brutalist car park sealed as Westminster councillors approve demolition

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‘Architects don’t know the value of their service – nor how to sell it’ @Kunlebarker

‘Architects don’t know the value of their service – nor how to sell it’

Architects are well trained in every aspect except how to properly sell the benefits of their servic...

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Zaha Hadid Architects is working on designs for a hyperloop system which could stretch across Italy

Zaha Hadid Architects to design Italy’s ‘very high speed’ hyperloop system

The practice is working with Hyperloop Italia on the ‘very high speed’ project which aims to propel ...

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Congratulations to all the practices who made it into this year's #AJ100 ! 🏆💯👏

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Gender is no barrier to creating great architecture, as these women demonstrate every day ✊ #womeninarchitecture #100years

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We're delighted to reveal the shortlist for this year's #womeninarchitecture awards!

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. @dRMMArchitects wins the 2017 #StirlingPrize for Hastings Pier

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Architecture’s love affair with extravagant new build must end

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An Architectural Legacy: Marking 1 year after Zaha Hadid died with a film that takes a look at her career & legacy

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An all-women team made up of architects, designers and engineers has won an international contest for ideas to boost sustainable development within the UK’s Cambridge-to-Oxford growth corridor #womeninarchitecture

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David Adjaye to chair 2018 RIBA Stirling Prize jury

The 51-year-old, whose practice was itself shortlisted for the award in 2006 with its Whitechapel Id...

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On #WorldArchitectureDay we're celebrating #womeninarchitecture – take the survey and tell us your experiences

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AJ100 Building of the Year – which is your favourite? VOTE using hashtags shown! #AJ100 🎉💯🏆

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O’Donnell + Tuomey’s Sheila O’Donnell has been named Architect of the Year at the Women in Architecture awards #womeninarchitecture

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BREAKING: Sadiq pulls plug on Garden Bridge @WHurst1

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Obituary: Richard Rogers

Often characterised as a leading figure in the High-Tech movement, Rogers rejected the label. For hi...

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Kevin McCloud has joined the bid to save a Brutalist Brum landmark ahead of a critical vote:

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Then and now: The changing face of London

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Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s designs for a new Barbican concert hall have been revealed 🎵

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French politicians have approved a bill demanding that Notre-Dame is rebuilt exactly as it was before the fire

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'Her architectural DNA will live on': In honour of the late Zaha Hadid's birthday, the AJ obituary is free to read

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The company that sold the combustible insulation used on the Grenfell Tower deliberately manipulated fire safety tests, a former employee has told the Grenfell inquiry

Grenfell insulation firm ‘manipulated’ fire safety tests, admits former employee

The inquiry has already heard that the Celotex RS5000 insulation foam board was misleadingly markete...

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Here's Daniel Libeskind's design for a ‘sculptural’ Maggie’s Centre in Hampstead

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Why architects need to wake up to the carbon emergency ⏰ #climatechange #climateaction #zerocarbon

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We must repurpose our architecture, not tear it down and start again

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Five things architects can do tomorrow to limit climate change

1) The default position should always be to retrofit existing buildings Jonathan Tuckey, director, J...

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The government should begin an immediate programme of mass housing construction designed by architects – and built by anyone except housebuilders, writes Paul Finch

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Congratulations to all the practices who made this year's #AJ100 ! 💯👏🏆🎉

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‘Treat us like you would want to be treated’ 💥 Meet @BlackFemArc - one of 25 AJ100 'disruptors':

Black Females in Architecture: ‘Treat us like you would want to be treated’

Why did you set up the BFA network? To increase the visibility of people like me in architecture. M...

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Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled its shortlisted design for an Auckland tower

Zaha Hadid Architects unveils New Zealand tower vision

The other proposals are by local practice Warren and Mahoney and Australian firms Woods Bagot, Cox A...

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Here are the six buildings shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize 2019!

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‘His legacy is in the buildings and places he transformed, in his model of architectural practice, but perhaps most powerfully in the thousands of people he taught and inspired.' Ted Cullinan has died, aged 88

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'Gap sites' left by shop closures represent an opportunity for architects to bring town centres to life again

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Stephenson Studio has revealed plans for a Jenga-like hotel in Manchester

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AJ Twitter has reached 250,000 followers – on #WorldArchitectureDay ! THANK YOU

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The vast majority of architects can’t bid for public work. Something has to change, says @TarekMerlin

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Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto has won the 2024 Pritzker Prize:

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Two emerging practices have won the RIBA competition to design affordable housing in the Yorkshire Dales and Lake District ⛰

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Bloomberg HQ by @FosterPartners wins the 2018 @RIBA #StirlingPrize !!! 🏆

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’Over the last 30 years the profession has become middle-class and well-to-do. And if we have only the affluent designing for the rest of us, then we have a problem.'

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♻️♻️♻️ THE GREENEST BUILDING IS THE ONE THAT ALREADY EXISTS ♻️♻️♻️ 💥 50,000 buildings demolished every year in the UK 💥 10% of UK carbon emissions come from construction Show your support ✊ for #RetroFirst on #EarthDay Stay informed:

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Congratulations to @FaulknerBrowns for winning the Civic category with Sunderland City Hall. 'It does everything right,’ said our judges #AJArchAwards

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Japan’s biggest housebuilder has invested £55m in Urban Splash to build thousands of modular homes across the UK 🏗

Japan’s biggest housebuilder invests £22m in Urban Splash’s modular arm

Sekisui House, which is one of the world’s biggest housebuilders and a modular housing pioneer, is t...

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An all-women team made up of architects, designers and engineers has won an international contest for ideas to boost sustainable development within the UK’s Cambridge-to-Oxford growth corridor #womeninarchitecture

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Grafton Architects wins Royal Gold Medal

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NEWS: US sports specialist appointed to work on new @Everton stadium

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The WINNER of AJ Small Projects 2019 is David Leech Architects for Conservatory Room! The Dublin extension cost just £49,750 to build @MarleyLtd

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Thank you to everyone who has donated to the #AJ100 #GrenfellTower fundraising appeal – we've already raised £1k

Donate to help the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire

Weʼre raising money to help the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

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While millions is set to be spent restoring the Glasgow School of Art, the city’s Scotland Street School is an original Mackintosh building screaming out for investment, writes @michel_schranz

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Insulation without airtightness is like buying a fancy down jacket that doesn’t do up, writes @Kate_de

Air-tightness doesn’t mean buildings can’t breathe

Every so often it is suggested that adopting Passivhaus standards moves ‘the responsibility for addr...

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BREAKING ⚠️ A ‘shocking’ report into the Bartlett School of Architecture found bullying, sexual misconduct, racism and a 'toxic culture spanning decades'. Some staff have been removed from duties with immediate effect

Bartlett investigation: Damning report reveals ‘toxic’ culture spanning decades

The central London university said it had suspended some school staff from ‘student-facing and admin...

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Brazilian architect Carla Juaçaba has won the @ArchReview 's Emerging Architecture award 2018 👏👏👏

Brazilian architect wins AR Emerging Architecture Awards 2018

The founder of Rio de Janeiro-based practice Carla Juaçaba Studio was announced as the winner of the...

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‘Architecture is the last industry to recognise the issue of white privilege', says Royal Gold Medallist @dadjaye

Adjaye: ‘Architecture is the last industry to recognise the issue of white privilege’

David Adjaye has said architects need to make a ‘conscious effort’ to dismantle white privilege, aft...

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'Gap sites' left by shop closures represent an opportunity for architects to bring town centres to life again

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BREAKING: Caruso St John’s Newport Street Gallery wins RIBA Stirling Prize 2016 #StirlingPrize

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