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Californian state utility plant achieves LEED Platinum certification
The Department of General Services’ (DGS) new state utility plant in California, US, has secured LEED Platinum certification from the…
21 Sep
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Broadway Malyan-designed shopping centre opens in China
Bailian Ivanhoe Shopping Center, a 60/40 joint venture between Bailian Group and Ivanhoé Cambridge has opened a shopping centre, La…
20 Sep
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Northrop Grumman opens new green headquarters in US
Northrop Grumman has opened its new corporate headquarters building at 2,980 Fairview Park Drive in Falls Church, Virginia, US, which…
20 Sep
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Vinci to build Brakes Group distribution centre in UK
Vinci Construction UK has won a £19m contract from Standard Life Investment to build a new temperature-controlled distribution centre and…
20 Sep
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Rem Koolhaas: preservation, politics and progress
New York’s Festival of Ideas for the New City (4-8 May 2011) was too multivalent to have a centre of…
1 Sep
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Shady character: Seville’s Metropol Parasol
In 1248, King Fernando III of Castile retook the city of Seville after five centuries of Moorish rule. Already the…
1 Sep
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A rediscovered tradition: the Trinity Long Room Hub
In 1987, Niall McCullough and Valerie Mulvin published A Lost Tradition: the nature of architecture in Ireland. This beautiful, trail-blazing…
1 Sep
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Practice makes perfect: Qatar stadium architecture
In November 2010, at a ceremony in Zürich, FIFA president Sepp Blatter revealed that the host of the 2022 Football…
1 Sep
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Ideas take flight: airport design
"Airports are ugly," Douglas Adams once observed. "Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only…
1 Sep
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Climate control: intelligent façades
In recent years, architects and consultants have been coming up with an array of designs for digitally controlled sunscreens that…
1 Sep
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