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Following a £500,000 investment, Everybody Health and Leisure has unveiled a new 100-station Technogym fitness suite at Crewe Lifestyle Centre. Areas include cardio, resistance, free ... More

Details have been revealed for what is being described as the world's most radical and environmentally-friendly furniture factory and visitor centre. Designed by Bjarke Ingels ... More

Construction of a new National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam is expected to begin in February, following the donation of €4m (US$4.5m, £3.4m) from the German ... More

Italy's culture minister Dario Franceschini has announced plans for a national museum dedicated to the Italian Resistance movement during World War II in Milan. The ... More

New York-based studio Love is Enough has created a new social and cultural destination with spaces to lounge, work and eat in a former railway ... More

Susie Ellis, chair of the Global Wellness Institute, has announced the 2019 Global Wellness Summit will move from Hong Kong to Singapore. Dates will remain ... More

A competition to find alternative designs to replace the destroyed Notre Dame Cathedral roof has attracted a number of innovative "solutions" – including a rooftop ... More

The Harry S. Truman Library and Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, has closed to allow a year-long renovation, which it is hoped will see the ... More

The International Spy Museum (SPY) has announced plans to relocate to a new, larger property next year. The 16-year-old attraction, which houses extensive collections of ... More

Daniel Libeskind and his New York studio have completed their first venture into China – a museum in the Hubei province’s capital city of Wuhan. ... More

A major artwork by Mark Wallinger and architects Studio Octopi has been launched in the English district of Runnymede, celebrating the legacy of Magna Carta. ... More

Architect Steven Holl has blamed “a crisis of ignorance in high places” for a lack of progress in adopting environmental building practices, reserving particular ire ... More

One of Scandinavia’s best-known design studios, Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects, have joined global firm Perkins+Will in a strategic partnership. In a joint statement, the two ... More

Throughout 2017, we have been lucky enough to speak to a host of the most innovative, influential and opinionated leisure architects and designers working across ... More

Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects (SHL) have been commissioned to design a sports and culture campus in Aarhus, Denmark The multi-use community project is a core ... More

Citizens should be empowered to play a much more active role in the design of the built environment as part of democratic society, Daniel Libeskind ... More

The UK’s new Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre is to be built in London it was revealed today (24 October). The new national landmark will ... More

The largest building project undertaken by London’s Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in over 100 years opens to the public on Friday (30 June). Architect ... More

Citizens should be empowered to play a much more active role in the design of the built environment as part of democratic society, the architect ... More

James Corner, one of the leading figures behind New York’s High Line elevated park, has described landscape architects as “the unsung heroes of the public ... More

International architecture studio Snøhetta are today (19 April) celebrating the official completion of their hotly-anticipated revamp of the most visited destination in the United States ... More

Chile’s government is introducing five new National Parks covering more than 11 million acres of land to the nation, following a donation of 1 million ... More

Landscape architecture studio James Corner Field Operations have been appointed to “restore, reimagine and revitalise” a one-mile stretch of Washington D.C’s historic Chesapeake and Ohio ... More

Here are some of the stories that appeared on CLAD this week, from Bjarke Ingels' Greenland stadium plans to the latest on David Chipperfield's Nobel ... More

Practices designing public squares should consider how they can enhance tolerance and provide platforms for peaceful democratic protest, according to landscape architect and theorist James ... More