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NewsMaking a splash: Baca Architects' amphibious home
The two-storey house will float when the dock beneath it fills with water during floods
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NewsBerkeley launches One Tower Bridge
Construction will begin on development of 390 flats after controversial planning history
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FeaturesFrom 1900 to 2012: Finishing the University of Birmingham
Aston Webb鈥檚 grand semi-circle of buildings conceived for Birmingham university in 1900 was the original redbrick campus. But only four of its five neo-Byzantine pavilions were ever built. Now Glenn Howells Architects and Bam have finished the job. 黑洞社区 reports
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NewsWilkinson Eyre completes Soho office
The 拢9.5m building replaces a sixties building in the Soho Conservation Area
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FeaturesHow the Olympics and Jubilee are driving London projects
The Olympics and the Diamond Jubilee have given the capital a real lift this year and all sorts of projects that were languishing in the design drawer are now busily being prepared, spurred on by civic pride and that unyielding deadline. Ike Ijeh looks at the best of them
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NewsFoster & Partners' Commonwealth Games arena begins to emerge
Work by Lend Lease expected to complete on the 12,000 seat Scottish Hydro Arena in 2013
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News拢150m Shepherds Bush market scheme gets nod
Orion Land & Leisure and Development Securities scheme granted outline planning permission
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NewsDesigns for floating pavilion at Olympics unveiled
Pavilion will be situated on elevated site above the Waterworks River
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FeaturesSustainable supermarket: M&S's new Cheshire Oaks store
At this enormous store in Chester, M&S is putting its Plan A sustainability programme to the test. And from the zero-waste policy to the innovative use of natural materials, all the evidence suggests that this is one plan A that is actually working 鈥� 黑洞社区 reports
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NewsLiverpool trumpets 拢130m 'city deal'
Three to four 鈥榗ity deals鈥� handing new powers and financial levers to cities expected in March
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FeaturesCladding the Dorchester extension: The rich kid next door
When you鈥檙e building a hotel for the young and fabulously wealthy, bronze cladding may not sound excessive, but it was still proving beyond the means of the team behind the Dorchester鈥檚 new extension project - until they discovered a spray-applied alternative 鈥� 黑洞社区 reports
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FeaturesThe Olympic village: architectural review
The Olympic village is the last main 2012 venue to be completed and as a symbol of regeneration its success is crucial to legacy plans. But have its designers played it too safe? 黑洞社区 reports
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NewsRock star-inspired artwork installed on Olympic park
RUN by Monica Bonvicini weighs 30 tonnes and is adjacent to the handball arena
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NewsStanton Williams scoops Mayor's planning prize
Architect wins London award for Kings Cross scheme with Argent
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NewsArchitects chosen for 拢120m Aberdeen garden
Deler Scofidio and Renfro team win competition to design Aberdeen鈥檚 拢120m City Garden project
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NewsNew King's Cross public square wins planning
Stanton Williams-designed scheme will create 7,000m2 of public space outside station
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FeaturesExhibition Road: Walkin' & wheels
Dixon Jones鈥� 拢28m reworking of South Kensington鈥檚 great museum quarter, Exhibition Road, resolves the long stand-off between pedestrians and cars by allowing them to share the same space. Ike Ijeh is knocked over by the simplicity of the design. Photographs by Tim Crocker
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NewsLandmark registry office opens in Blackpool
拢2m building by architect dRMM is clad in gold-coloured shingles
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NewsTwenty-one local transport schemes to share 拢854m
Transport secretary Justine Greening announces funding boost to strengthen regional economies
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FeaturesFarringdon station overhaul: Boring? If only!
London鈥檚 Farringdon station has been given an overhaul and is ready for more passengers, bigger trains and Crossrail. But it hasn鈥檛 been an easy ride - and digging a 140m tunnel by hand was the least of it. By Thomas Lane. Photography by Colin Streater