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LSE big-name finalists reveal their designs for £120m building
The London School of Economics (LSE) has revealed designs by the six architects vying for the final ‘set piece’ academic building on its main Holborn campus
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News about David Chipperfield Architects and coverage of the practice’s recently completed buildings
Barangaroo plans revealed, including Chipperfield’s first Australian project
Images have been released of the proposed Central Barangaroo development in Sydney, which will include David Chipperfield Architects’ first job in Australia – a 20-storey part-office, part-residential scheme
Chipperfield and WilkinsonEyre reveal competing designs for Canadian Parliament annexe
David Chipperfield Architects and WilkinsonEyre are among six finalists that have unveiled competing designs for a £248 million (CAN$430 million) mixed-use office block for the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa
BIG’s Canada Water masterplan approved
Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) will be joined by more practices to work on detailed plans for three buildings in Canada Water, south-east London, after its outline masterplan was approved
Astragal: Russian exit and no Bacon
This month Foster + Partners said it would stop working in Russia, as it ‘deplored’ the country’s invasion of Ukraine. The announcement came a week after similar statements by Zaha Hadid Architects and David Chipperfield Architects
‘Less a refurb, more a repair’ – David Chipperfield retrofits Berlin’s Bötzow Brewery
The practice has performed a masterful warts-and-all retrofit of the former brewery, led by the client’s desire to ‘keep the DNA’ of the building, writes Rob Wilson. Photography Simon Menges
LSE unveils global talent in shortlist to design £120m academic building
The London School of Economics (LSE) has revealed the six architects shortlisted to design the final ‘set piece’ academic building on its campus
Chipperfield beats BIG and Snøhetta to win Munich mixed-use contest
David Chipperfield Architects has won an international competition for a new mixed-use development on Schützenstraße in central Munich
Chipperfield team reveals plans to revamp Edinburgh’s ‘Harrods of the North’
David Chipperfield Architects has revealed its long-awaited plans, backed by Danish retail billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen, to transform the famous Jenners store in Edinburgh’s Princes Street
Bangladeshi hospital wins RIBA’s best building in the world award
Dhaka-based Kashef Chowdhury/URBANA’s Friendship Hospital in Satkhira, Bangladesh, has been named best new building in the world by the RIBA