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Angela Brady elected next President of the RIBA Irish-born architect Angela Brady will take over as president elect at the beginning of September and will start her two-year term as president on 1 September 2011, succeeding Ruth Reed. Stirling Prize shortlist announced Dominated by cultural buildings, The RIBA has announced the shortlist for this year’s Stirling prize. Zaha Hadid’s Maxxi Museum of Art in Rome is the bookies’ favourite to win the £20,000 prize. Winners unveiled at Galvanizing Awards 2010 The winners of the 17th annual Galvanizing Awards have been announced, with category finalists including a whiskey distillery, a Victorian warehouse extension and a listed Church porch gates. Proposals for Killybegs playground invited Architects from around the country and abroad have been invited to submit proposals for a new playground for Killybegs, in an approach to playground planning that combines elements of play and public art, as well as consultation with local children. The best of London Festival of Architecture 2010 A massive success again this year, take a look at some of the most interesting projects from this year’s Festival of Architecture in London including designs from Campaign, Hawkins\Brown and Jonathan Woolf Architects. New office space for advertising agency Dubbed “The Cole”, Featherstone Young has just completed the interior of this new office for space advertising agency Wieden + Kennedy in London, aimed to encourage collaborations with creative partners and their clients.   Ashmolean Museum Rick Mather Architects’ Ashmolean Museum has made the Stirling Prize Shortlist. The new building is attached to the rear of the Greek revival building by Charles Robert Cockerell. Living Building Challenge - lecture and launch The Irish chapter of the Living Building Institute has been launched at a lecture by architect and author Jason F McLennan from the Cascadia green building council in North America. Lack of pumping station could delay Convention Centre opening The €380 million national convention centre in Dublin’s docklands may not open in two months as planned after reports revealed the project does not have required sewerage facilities.   Ireland’s participation at Venice Biennale launched de Blacam and Meagher will represent Ireland at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice this Autumn with an exhibition that addresses the practice’s built and unbuilt portfolio of the last 33 years. PICTURE OF THE DAY €30m contract for St Patrick's College, Drumcondra gets green light Building work is set to start on a new €30 million building project at St Patrick's College, Drumcondra, Dublin, after the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills, Mary Coughlan, recently approved the contract for the project. Opera and Cultural Centre Danish architects C. F. Møller have jointly won a competition for a new opera house and cultural centre in Kristiansund, Norway. The proposal aims to integrate the centre with its surroundings by incorporating the existing buildings on either side and creating an urban space around the building, which will connect the cultural centre with the streets, squares and nearby park.   Alligator House Designed by buildingstudio, this affordable home arose out of the post-Katrina re-housing effort in New Orleans for an inner city neighborhood in desperate need of new places to live.

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