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The UK government has officially banned the TikTok app from devices across government due to national security concerns. Oliver Dowden, chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, confirmed the decision during an address in House of Commons on Thursday. Dowden's speech followed days of speculation that the UK would follow the…

The project took out a win at this year's AIA Newcastle Architecture Awards.

Dependency lifecycle management specialist Endor Labs has cut the ribbon on its new global partner programme Hyperdrive, as well as announced a 100% channel commitment. The new channel initiative has been designed to help partners leverage Endor Labs’ technology to create “powerful technology combinations” for supply chain security, dependency selection,…

Pascale Sablan was told she'd never become an architect because she's Black and a woman. Now she works for one of the world's top firms and she wants more people who look like her to join the field.

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Fujitsu has revealed that the company is prepping the successor for its A64FX processor for high-performance computing. The company's second-generation Arm-based server CPU is slated to offer considerably higher performance and energy efficiency than its predecessor, as well as will add features to address AI and data analytics applications. The…

The utopian architect and activist Roland Castro, who fought what he called "urban apartheid" in France's working-class suburbs (banlieues), has died in Paris aged 82. A Maoist during the May 1968 protests, he later swung behind centrist Emmanuel Macron.

The British architect David Chipperfield has been announced as the winner of the 2023 Pritzker Architecture Prize, arguably the highest international honour in the discipline. In its citation, the jury highlighted the elegance, restraint and permanence that have consistently characterised Chipperfield’s oeuvre, “an architecture of understated but transformative civic presence”.

The inaugural Islamic Arts Biennale is underway in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. (Biennales are large and prestigious international art exhibitions held every two years.) This important new event for the Muslim world features numerous African artists. And the biennale’s artistic director is Sumayya Vally, a South African architecture professor and principal…

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Chipperfield described as an architect ‘radical in his restraint’ as he takes home top industry honour.