All Building Design articles in 30 October 2009
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Foster’s revised Shoreditch scheme wins council backing
Hackney Council in London has given the thumbs-up for Foster & Partners' £500 million Bishops Place regeneration scheme.
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Hamiltons founder retires as chairman
Tim Hamilton has retired as chairman of Hamiltons, the practice he founded in 1966.
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New school design resource from Architecture and Design Scotland
Architecture and Design Scotland (A&DS) launched a new school design web resource, Smarter Places, at Edinburgh University architecture department this week.
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Industry bodies launch new design review guide
A new guide to design review has been developed by Cabe, the RIBA, the Royal Town Planning Institute and the Landscape Institute.
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Broughton museum goes ahead
Hugh Broughton Architects’ £2.7 million Maidstone Museum project (pictured) will go on site in the new year after being awarded a Heritage Lottery Fund grant of almost £2 million.
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Conran's Moonraker pods get go-ahead
Conran & Partners’ innovative scheme for student housing overlooking the Tate Modern at Bankside has been granted planning permission.
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Works starts on grassy pavilion
Work has begun on Earle Architects’ £1 million grass-covered pavilion (pictured) in the grounds of a south London school.
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Makki's Syrian private house
Essex-based practice Makki Architectural Services has unveiled a design for a £66,000 (5 million Syrian pounds) 285 sq m pre-fabricated concrete house for a private client on the outskirts of Al Lathqiyah, Syria.
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Heritage bodies attack new planning proposals
The Royal Town Planning Institute has savaged the government’s PPS15 heritage proposals as a serious risk to the nation’s historic buildings and places.
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BDP bucks recession as profits triple
BDP has produced a recession-busting set of annual results with pre-tax profits for the year to June 2009 rocketing nearly 200% to £3.3 million.
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Levitt Bernstein's Kilburn housing development opens
Levitt Bernstein's £19 million affordable housing development in north London was opened today by Richard McCarthy, director general for planning and housing at the Department for Communities and Local Government.
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American Embassy sold to Qatari Diar
The American Embassy in Grosvenor Square has been sold to Qatari Diar Real Estate.
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Hull projects triumph in Yorkshire RIBA awards
Wright & Wright’s Hull Truck Theatre has swept the board at this year’s RIBA Yorkshire White Rose Awards, picking up three prizes.
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Arb wipes architect from register following home extension failings
Arb has “erased” London-based architect Olatunji Olagunju from its register of architects after finding him guilty of unacceptable professional conduct.
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Unemployment triples for new architecture graduates
The number of new architecture graduates unable to find work has almost tripled in the past year.
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Foster proposes tower cluster for New Covent Garden site
Norman Foster is drawing up plans for a cluster of tall buildings on the site of the New Covent Garden Market in Nine Elms.
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Benoy’s Abu Dhabi theme park shell comes out of its shell
Benoy has revealed new images of the completed shell of its Ferrari theme park in Abu Dhabi, to coincide with Sunday’s Abu Dhabi Formula One Grand Prix event.
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Metropolitan Workshop and Vardaal-Lunde win Norwegian design competition
Metropolitan Workshop and Arkitektkontoret Vardaal-Lunde have won an invited competition to design a 30,000sq m conference centre, hotel and office complex in Bergen, Norway.
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P&HS wins go-ahead for South Yorkshire health centres
Architect P&HS has won planning permission for two health and community centres near Barnsley in South Yorkshire.