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A cloud of steel
6 June 2013The Serpentine Gallery’s summer pavilion for this year is to be a delicate, cloud-like structure in fine steel bars designed by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto.
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Latest Maggie’s Centre opens in Newcastle
3 June 2013A new Maggie’s Centre designed by Ted Cullinan and Cullinan Studio has opened in Newcastle at the Freeman Hospital.
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KPF clinches First Turkish project with HQ For Ziraat Bank
3 June 2013International architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) has been commissioned to design the new headquarters for the country’s largest and oldest financial institution, Ziraat Bank, in the heart of Istanbul. It is the practice’s first project in Turkey.
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Artist goes to work in an egg
30 May 2013In the 1950s, the British Egg Marketing Board famously urged Britons to ‘go to work on an egg’. Now, artist Stephen Turner is going to work in an egg – in fact an egg-shaped river-going ‘research vessel’ called the Exbury Egg, which has been designed by architects PAD Studio.
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Croydon Calling
30 May 2013As shopping centre giants Hammerson and Westfield join forces to grab a stake in the new-look Croydon, are things starting to look up for the ‘Chav capital’, asks Veronica Simpson
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The secrets of Bletchley Park Codebreakers to be revealed
30 May 2013In time to mark the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings, in which Bletchley Park, near Milton Keynes, played a significant role supporting the deception plans and providing vital intelligence, a major restoration project of the Codebreakers’ huts and blocks is being undertaken by Appleyards (Artelia).
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Gabbertas designs scoop four furniture Guild Quality Awards
29 May 2013Furniture designer Mark Gabbertas has clinched four awards for excellence with new tables and chairs in this year’s awards from the Furniture Makers Guild. The Design Guild Mark, now in its sixth year, was set up by the Furniture Makers Company, a City of London livery company, to reward excellence in volume production furniture design created in Britain and the best of British furniture designers working abroad.
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SYZYGY office, Frankfurt
27 May 2013HI-MACS was the material of choice to create a space within a space for this new office. Designers at 3deluxe created light openings and milled into it for backlighting
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Now we are ten
27 May 2013An exhibition focuses on former FX editor Gareth Gardner’s photographic work for design and architecture magazines over the past decade
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if only...
23 May 2013The old Severn Road Bridge could be transformed into a scientific research station
