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King's Cross masterplan brings part of the city "back into an entirely new use"

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This video spotlights the King's Cross masterplan by Allies and Morrison and Porphyrios Associates, which is one of six projects shortlisted for this year's RIBA Stirling Prize. This video on the King's Cross Masterplan is the final part of a series on the 2024 shortlisted projects. The film was produced by the RIBA.

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Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly dies aged 78

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In the UK he designed 20 Fenchurch Street in London, which is widely known as the Walkie Talkie due to its shape, along with the masterplan for Battersea Power Station and the Firstsite visual arts centre in Colchester. In 1989, Viñoly designed Tokyo International Forum, which featured a 60-meter-high curtain wall.

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How architecture and design are helping put Norway on the map

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Snøhetta’s Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, 2008. At home, Snøhetta’s biggest claim to fame is the 2008 Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, which sits on Oslo’s waterfront. Courtesy Snøhetta. By the 1990s, the country had produced its first (and only) Pritzker Prize winner, the late modernist Sverre Fehn.

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RIBA unveils Stirling Prize 2024 shortlist

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Jamie Fobert Architects' overhaul of the National Portrait Gallery with Purcell is also shortlisted, alongside the King's Cross Masterplan by Allies and Morrison and Porphyrios Associates. RIBA president Muyiwa Oki praised the six shortlisted projects "for placing regeneration and restoration front and centre".

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Nine notable projects by late architect Rafael Viñoly

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Photo is by Hufton & Crow Battersea Power Station masterplan (2008) Viñoly was responsible for outlining the masterplan for the redevelopment of the Battersea Power Station in London, parts of which are now complete.

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BDP Architecture Practice Information + News

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Fairham continues: “Our award-winning projects range from the masterplanning of entire cities to the design of interiors and building components. Previously, BDP held an Edinburgh office from 2008 to 2011. BDP wins Kuwait Masterplan. Edinburgh St James building: image courtesy of architects practice. photo © Isabelle Lomholt.

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RIBA unveils 2023 Stirling Prize shortlist

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A social housing block designed by Adam Khan Architects as part of the Central Somers Town masterplan in Camden is the third. This project was animated by matching arch motifs, matching an adjoining children's community centre that also forms a part of the project. Adam Khan Architects was assigned Plot no.10