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Open competition launched to find design team for new museum of architecture and design in Helsinki

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Spaces for events, conferences, workshops, a library and a water-front café-restaurant are also a key requirement of the brief. The entrants selected for Stage 2 of the competition will be notified in December 2024, with Stage 2 opening in February and running until the end of May 2025.

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The business case for the retrofit of existing buildings keeps getting stronger

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The news last year that the M&S flagship Orchard House store on Oxford Street in London was to be demolished to make way for a new mixed-use development of shops, offices, restaurants and a gym sparked a very British sort of debate about the pros and cons of retrofit and refurbishment. This is M&S after all.

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Manchester is now a major draw for office design firms

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So successful has the attempt been to reclaim the streets of Manchester that the resident population of the city centre will rise from around 4,500 in 1998 to around 100,000 by 2025. The legacy of its industrial past was a large number of empty spaces, many of them in the form of warehouses.

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