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Sir Christopher Wren designed a tower for Westminster Abbey topped with a 12-sided spire. Now the abbey's dean has invited the public to comment on proposals to build a corona on the 1,000-year-old church

Westminster Abbey to get its crowning glory, at last

£10m corona will realise Wren's vision

Inside Architecture

Isi Metzstein (right, with Andy MacMillan) whose ideas inspired the formation of the Rubble Club

'Rubble Club' helps architects pick up the pieces

Monday, 15 June 2009

Society set up to offer support to designers whose work has been demolished

Room with a view: Griffin Court is a highlight of the Modern Wing, its
vast metal louvre inspired by Chicago's 19th century urban grid

Renzo Piano: The world's finest architect

Tuesday, 19 May 2009

The spectacular new wing of Chicago's Art Institute has finally been unveiled. Jay Merrick was there

Prince Charles delivers the 2009 Royal Institute of British Architects Trust Annual Lecture

Architects' Prince Charles boycott fizzles out

Wednesday, 13 May 2009

There were no empty seats in the Royal Institute of British Architects auditorium last night as a planned boycott of Prince Charles' speech faded away.

<p><b>1.  Canterbury Cathedral, Kent</b></p>
<p>Canterbury Cathedral is the top religious building in the United Kingdom and is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The gothic style building has a 75 metre high tower and has been a UNESCO world heritage site since 1988. The murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket in 1170 has made the cathedral popular to many pilgrims, who visit Becket?s shrine. There is also a monastery and further ruins of older buildings, as well as a small museum.</p>

Top ten religious buildings in the United Kingdom

Tuesday, 12 May 2009

The UK’s long tradition of religious buildings has been a magnet for tourists since the Vikings began raiding monasteries in the 790s.

FAT's bridge across the Thames

Ghost town: London's 'lost' buildings

Tuesday, 5 May 2009

Cautious planners and the recession have shattered architects' dreams of a new London, writes Jay Merrick, who imagines what London might have looked like

Big-hitting names from the world of architecture like Zaha Hadid and Sir Richard Rogers are expected to put designs forward for the new
students' building which has a budget of £50m

Glasgow's big 'Mac' in architectural feeding frenzy

Thursday, 30 April 2009

More than 9,000 architectural practices and design obsessives have expressed interest in creating a new students' building opposite the iconic Glasgow School of Art, a Grade I-listed building.

The first luxury yacht, Ocean Emerald, designed by Sir Norman Foster

Foster turns his hand to timeshare luxury yacht

Thursday, 30 April 2009

He is the visionary behind some of the world's most avant-garde buildings, including the Swiss Re "Gherkin" in the City of London and New York's Hearst Tower. Now, Sir Norman Foster has turned to boat design, creating four 134ft luxury yachts to tempt the super-rich.

Old Damascus, Syria: Dating back to the third millennium BC, Damascus is one of the longest continually-inhabited cities in the world, but much of its ancient centre is threatened by development

Is Unesco damaging the world's treasures?

Wednesday, 29 April 2009

Simon Usborne: Is the World Heritage project really the gold standard for conservation?

Mecanoo's proposed design for the Library of Birmingham

Birmingham's £6bn makeover

Wednesday, 22 April 2009

Britain's new architectural hot spot is Birmingham and it's handing £6bn to a thundering horde of architects to prove it.

A computer-generated image of the proposed Chelsea Barracks development

The Big Question: Why is Prince Charles angry about a development at Chelsea Barracks?

Tuesday, 21 April 2009

Why are we asking this now?
The Barracks is a dream site for any developer who might be a descendent of Croesus, the fabulously wealthy king of Lydia, circa 550BC. The site covers more than five hectares of one of London's fanciest sites, close to the river and directly opposite Wren's Royal Hospital. In the Croesus stakes, few families are wealthier than the royal clan of Qatar, one of whose companies, Qatari Diar, bought the Barracks jointly with CPC Group, operated by the Candy brothers, for £950m last year. Prince Charles dislikes their scheme for the site, designed by Lord Rogers' practice, Rogers Stirk Harbour, and has apparently quilled a note to Qatar's rulers, asking them to use another architect.

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