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Velodrome receives award for architectural excellence from RIBA

A bunch of top architects intrafenestrate themselves along the West End shopping street.

James Watson, Brian Cox, Werner Herzog, Richard Holmes, Colin Pillinger…wow.

The Victoria & Albert museum will mount an exhibition this autumn dedicated to Charles Holden, the architect responsible for building some of the best-loved Undergrounds stations in the 1920s and 30s. Along with building many of the celebrated modernist designs on the Piccadilly line, such …

Image / BFI Mediatheque If your mouth watered at the prospect of next week’s debate about science and the cinema, you should probably get your autonomic nervous system checked out then here’s another date for your diaries. On 17 November, RIBA Building Futures will assemble …

Maggie’s Centre, Charing Cross hospital, by Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners Considering the Royal catfight over Chelsea Barracks and the nixing of the British Museum extension, 2009 hasn’t been kind to Richard Rogers, so a piece of good news was overdue: the Maggie’s Centre at …

Image / allyzally The gloves are off in the punch-up between the Prince and the architectural establishment. New RIBA president Ruth Reed, who took up the position on Tuesday, got her tenure off to an aggressive start by attacking Charles this morning on Radio 4 …

This is the winner of RIBA’s competition to redesign London Bridge, a crossing so bland that passing a turd on the carriageway might count as making an improvement. But how fantastic would this be? A kiss-my-glass canopy of gardens and farmers’ markets, like a hippy …

Image / allyzally The heir’s keynote address last night, which had provoked rancour among the black turtleneck-wearing crowd and led some to organise a boycott, was smooth, unruffled, and as free from rough edges and unpleasant angles as he wishes architecture to be. He spoke …

It must have seemed a tempting prospect for RIBA president Sunand Prasad to invite Prince Charles to give a keynote speech, 25 years after his original broadside against modern architecture. The decision has surely become a headache now: following the Prince’s attempted interference over the …