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Youth Shelter, Wolverhampton

Sjölander da Cruz Architects has designed this shelter for skateboarders in Wolverhampton as part of an initiative organised by MADE (Midlands Architecture + The Designed Environment).

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Nicolai Cultural Center, Denmark

The new Nicolai Cultural Centre is a study in how to successfully use listed cultural buildings. Danish practice Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter ApS has converted five old school buildings that each represent a period in Danish school history.

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School of Nursing, Sligo

Moloney O’Beirne Architects was retained in 2005 to design the School of Nursing for St Angela’s College in Sligo. The finished building has been set into the slope allowing the existing buildings at a higher level to retain views to the lake.

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The Gate Theatre, Dublin 1

Scott Tallon Walker has provided a new rehearsal room for the Gate that can double as a small venue and involved the removal of several unsightly additions to the 18th century structure dating from the 1950s and 1980s.

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Power and the Glory

The restoration of the iconic St George’s Church in Hardwicke Place would never have happened without the project’s contemporary intervention. But has the 'building within a building' gamble worked? Denise Maguire went to find out.

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A night at the opera
The much anticipated Wexford Opera House finally opens its doors this month. Project architect Ciarán McGahon of the OPW describes the project from inception to completion and explains why it feels like being inside a giant cello.

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‘Totally 3-D’

At the end of last year, subdued talk of redundancies and hard times were swapped for the news that Grafton Architects picked up the World Building of the Year award for Universita Luigi Bocconi building in Milan.

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Image: HB6X150 Linking to Hawkins Brown Biochemistry Building Oxford University
Top Marks

With a brief to bring together 300 lecturers, researchers and students from a biochemistry department previously based in a number of separate buildings, the new biochemsitry building at Oxford University gets top marks

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The Creative Crescent

Architects were asked to design a “creative crescent” embodying four colleges making up the pastoral idea of the school.

  1. Cities should be focus of infrastructure development
  2. Total construction to be down by 23 percent in 2010
  3. Sanaa-designed Rolex Learning Center opens
  4. The Recovery Lounge
Is this the beginning of the end of the recession?
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