Removal of the scaffolding from the US embassy construction site in Berlin has triggered fresh debate about this symbol of Washington's power on the site of the former Berlin Wall.

The embassy is set to be inaugurated on July 4, US Independence Day, but tourists are already snapping pictures of the building, which has a front door on prestigious Pariser Platz, with the Brandenburg Gate, French embassy and luxurious Adlon Hotel as neighbors.

Its completion fills the ...
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A new architecture award is set to provide bus stops and dentist surgeries with the chance to be recognised as great buildings.

The World Architecture Festival is set to take place in Barcelona on the 22nd-24th October and will include 256 shortlisted projects which will be judged.

This event is set to pit local architects and their work against some of the biggest and most famous buildings in the world.

Entrants must present their work to a live aud...
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SOME of Britain's most high-profile modern architects have submitted plans to turn a centuries-old village with a population of fewer than 100 people into an example of ultimate 21st-century living in the remote Welsh countryside.

Lawrenny, in the heart of the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, commissioned a world-wide competition in March to find architects to design a revolutionary new development of up to 30 sustainable homes and workplaces which would rely on solar power, bio...
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