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Sheffield University reveals winner of £37m teaching lab contest
London practice Twelve Architects and Australia’s BVN Architecture have won the University of Sheffield’s competition to design a £37 million Central Teaching Laboratory (CTL)
Competition wins
Updates on architectural competitions, including shortlists, winners and other news
AOC wins contest for new galleries at Bradford Science and Media Museum
Bradford’s National Science and Media Museum has picked AOC for a new £2.9 million suite of Sound and Vision Galleries
Top names line up for £15m Dumfries heritage centre job
The RIAS has named an all-star line-up of finalists in the contest to design a £15 million cultural hub at The Crichton, a former psychiatric hospital in Dumfries
Caruso St John shortlisted for €34.5 million Turin restoration
Caruso St John is one of six teams competing for a €34.5 million renovation of Turin’s Cavallerizza Reale, a former cavalry school
UK architects shortlisted in Malmö cement silos competition
UK teams including David Kohn Architects, Muf and 6a have been shortlisted in the Swedish city of Malmö’s contest to rethink a series of disused cement silos
Grimshaw wins Waterloo Station masterplanning commission
Grimshaw has won a publicly tendered contract to create a strategic masterplan for Waterloo Station and its surroundings in central London
FCBS wins contest for 600ha eco-city in Rwanda
The RIBA has named Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios (FCBS) overall winner of an international design competition for a 600ha residential masterplan in Kigali, Rwanda
Proctor & Matthews and Metropolitan Workshop plan £1bn overhaul of Carpenters Estate
Metropolitan Workshop and Proctor & Matthews Architects have submitted a masterplan for a £1 billion estate regeneration in east London
We Made That wins Colchester city-centre masterplan job
We Made That has won a public contract to re-masterplan Colchester city centre in Essex
William Matthews bags Czech hat-trick with Prague cable-car win
London-based William Matthews Associates has won its third major competition in the Czech Republic this year – this time for a new cable car in Prague