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Obamas reveal more details and images for Presidential Center in Chicago

January 10, 2018 Dan Howarth 0

Barack and Michelle Obama have released a set of new renderings and a movie showing the cultural complex celebrating his presidency, which is to be built on Chicago’s South Side. Designed by US firms Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects with Interactive Design Architects (IDEA), the Obama Presidential Center is planned for a site in the

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Birmingham’s tallest residential skyscraper to include roof-top running track and app-controlled lifts

January 10, 2018 India Block 0

Glenn Howells Architects has won approval to build a 132-metre skyscraper that will be the tallest residential building in Birmingham, England, and will house over 480 hi-tech rental apartments. Called 2one2 Broad Street, the 42-storey tower will occupy a central location in the city on the site of the former nightclub Tramps on Broad Street. Renders show the

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Birmingham’s tallest residential skyscraper to include rooftop running track and app-controlled lifts

January 10, 2018 India Block 0

Glenn Howells Architects has won approval to build a 132-metre skyscraper that will be the tallest residential building in Birmingham, England, and will house over 480 hi-tech rental apartments. Called 2one2 Broad Street, the 42-storey tower will occupy a central location in the city on the site of the former nightclub Tramps on Broad Street. Renders show the

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Birmingham’s tallest residential skyscraper to include roof-top running track and app-controlled lifts

January 10, 2018 India Block 0

Glenn Howells Architects has won approval to build a 132-metre skyscraper that will be the tallest residential building in Birmingham, England, and will house over 480 hi-tech rental apartments. Called 2one2 Broad Street, the 42-storey tower will occupy a central location in the city on the site of the former nightclub Tramps on Broad Street. Renders show the

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Costs soar to $33 billion for Trump’s US-Mexico border wall

January 8, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

The controversy surrounding US president Donald Trump’s wall between the US and Mexico continues, as updated plans bring the predicted cost to $33 billion, while a petition has been launched to designate the eight construction prototypes as a national monument. Updates to the US-Mexico border wall proposal include a 316-mile-long extension to the existing 654-mile barrier, as

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Trump Tower catches fire in New York City, injuring three

January 8, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

An electrical fire has caused smoke to billow from the roof of Trump Tower on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue and has injured three people. Reports claim that the building’s heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) system ignited earlier around 7am, but the New York City Fire Department tweeted saying the fire was “under control” shortly afterwards. However,

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Wind farms and man-made island in the North Sea could help Europe meet renewable energy targets

January 8, 2018 India Block 0

A man-made island surrounded by wind farms in the middle of the North Sea could help bring large-scale renewable energy to Europe by 2050. Dutch energy company TenneT claims its plans for the North Sea Wind Power Hub has the potential to supply 70 to 100 million Europeans with renewable energy in just over 30

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BIG and Google team up for terraced offices in Sunnyvale

January 4, 2018 Dan Howarth 0

Architecture firm BIG is working on yet another project for Google, this time a pair of offices blocks with ramping roofs in Sunnyvale, California. Bjarke Ingels Group – which is also working with Heatherwick Studio on the Google HQ in neighbouring Mountain View and the company’s main offices in London – has now designed two

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Outrage over plans for Apple store in Melbourne’s publicly owned Federation Square

January 4, 2018 Jessica Mairs 0

Melbourne residents are protesting the arrival of Apple’s first southern-hemisphere flagship in Federation Square, and criticising the Victorian government for pushing through the commercial development without consultation. The two-storey Apple store designed by Foster + Partners will replace an existing three-storey building in Federation Square, a publicly owned plaza set on the bank of the Yarra River in the

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