Will Hurst Editorial
Building Design
Will Hurst was news editor of BD.
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Anger over Hull University library’s pre-qualification criteria
22 July 2011
Smaller practices complain of emphasis on experience over design flair.
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Schools need £22 billion for maintenance alone
18 July 2011
Procurement adviser Sebastian James makes bombshell claim on repairs backlog
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Granary Wharf in Leeds wins highest honour at Housing Design Awards
15 July 2011
Scheme by Careyjones chapmantolcher, CZWG and Allies & Morrison bags Supreme Award
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Ricardo Legorreta wins top architecture prize
11 July 2011
Leading Mexican architect joins British sculptor Kapoor as recipient of 2011Praemium Imperiale arts prize
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Give us a new generation of garden cities!
11 July 2011
TCPA report calls for radical change in planning policy
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Mackintosh school gets new head
11 July 2011
Studio KAP director Christopher Platt appointed to the role following international search
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Row over Gherkin’s ‘creator’
8 July 2011
Foster’s team hits out over Shuttleworth’s role
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Foster & Partners' £500 million Bishopsgate project wins planning
7 July 2011
Hackney Council approves Principal Place scheme, formerly known as Bishops Place
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First photo of Kevin McCloud's Swindon scheme released
5 July 2011
Glenn Howells-designed Triangle development in Swindon is Grand Designs presenter’s first housing scheme
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'easyCouncil' bids to outsource all built environment functions
4 July 2011
Tory-led north London local authority set to contract out architectural, regeneration and planning services
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Bennetts' RSC theatre recreated in the Big Apple
4 July 2011
Royal Shakespeare Company brings full-size replica of Stratford theatre to New York
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iCon centre for green technology and sustainable construction opens
1 July 2011
Daventry building was designed by Consarc Architects
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Prince's House unveiled at Building Research Establishment
29 June 2011
Pilot project is two years late but housing minister calls on architects to follow its traditional approach
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Wanted: architect for cinema revamp on tropical island
28 June 2011
Award winning film maker Nick Broomfield backs project in Zanzibar
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David Chipperfield appointed to take forward Geffrye Museum development
27 June 2011
UK’s only museum of the home sticks with masterplanner for redevelopment and extension project
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RIBA comes under fire for hosting ‘bonkers’ 9/11 talk
24 June 2011
Institute reviews policy after controversial event booked by Zaha Hadid Architects associate
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Broadgate decision not political, says EH chief
24 June 2011
Will Hurst talks to Simon Thurley in the wake of landmark listing verdict
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Alsop denies reports he is set to leave RMJM
24 June 2011
Stirling prize winner insists no new career move is on the cards
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RIBA gets its meeting with Michael Gove
23 June 2011
President Ruth Reed secures face-to-face with education secretary with help from architecture minister Penrose
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Architype scoops School Architect of the Year award
23 June 2011
Green practice pics up a total of three awards at annual British Council for School Environments ceremony
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Boris Johnson announces drive for retrofitting
22 June 2011
New initiatives from the London mayor include higher education low carbon prize
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Benjamin Garcia Saxe Architecture completes $40,000 shipping container house
21 June 2011
Clients build Costa Rican home themselves
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RIBA facing questions over 9/11 conspiracy theorist's Portland Place lecture
20 June 2011
Former president Jack Pringle calls event “unfortunate”
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New Patel Taylor scheme for Essex University revealed
20 June 2011
Student centre and library extension follows firm’s previous Ivor Crewe lecture hall
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Local residents chain themselves to Chelsea Barracks railings
17 June 2011
Protesters from the Chelsea Barracks Action Group hit out at developer Qatari Diar
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RMJM pursued over unpaid Gazprom fees
17 June 2011
Acoustic consultant takes legal action as RMJM crisis spreads to Russia
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Photography competition for architects launched
17 June 2011
Third Architect’s Eye competition now open for entries
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Redcar library listing report was ‘full of errors’
15 June 2011
The government chose not to list ABK’s Redcar Central Library after being directly influenced by a report riddled with errors, it was claimed this week
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Jeremy Hunt turns down Broadgate for listing
15 June 2011
Buildings now set to be demolished to make way for Make ’groundscraper’ after EH recommendation rejected
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Chelsea Barracks plans recommended for approval
14 June 2011
Westminster council meeting next week will consider whether affordable housing offer is adequate
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China to get a new skyscraper every five days for next three years
14 June 2011
Research prompts Financial Times to question whether boom means bust is on the way
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Neil Gillespie and Simon Thurley named in Queen's birthday honours list
13 June 2011
Others recognised include Alan Baxter and architect Barry Edwards
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New requirements for architecture students unveiled by the RIBA and Arb
10 June 2011
Changes introduce greater flexibility in terms of practical experience needed prior to Part III
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Architecture minister lists Lubetkin estate in Paddington
10 June 2011
Late 1940s Hallfield Estate described as a “seminal” post-war estate
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William Hill reveals odds on Broadgate listing case
9 June 2011
The City of London’s landmark Broadgate complex is unlikely to be listed according to bookmaker William Hill
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Proctor & Matthews wins permission for big Kent scheme
8 June 2011
Project in Horsted for Countryside Properties will include more than 300 homes, community and retail
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Government plans 100,000 new homes on state-owned land by 2015
7 June 2011
All government departments to be required to identify surplus land ripe for development
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Two assembly members plan inquiries into Potters Fields
3 June 2011
Members of the London Assembly have proposed two separate inquiries into Southwark Council’s handling of the One Tower Bridge scheme following BD’s front page story.
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Two architects disciplined by the Arb’s professional conduct committee
31 May 2011
Sussex practitioner Peter Leslie Buxton handed £3,000 fine
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Re-imagining John Soane's Pitzhanger Manor for RAA show
31 May 2011
’Conjectural image’ of how the Ealing building looked in the early 1800s is part of summer exhibition
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Southwark council under fire in "cash-for-planning" row
27 May 2011
Chairman of CLG select committee calls on council to provide answers on One Tower Bridge
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Barnsley plans unveiled by CZWG and Holder Mathias
24 May 2011
£70 million scheme replaces Will Alsop’s unrealised ’Tuscan hill village’ vision
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Nick Clegg unveils details of UK Green Investment Bank
24 May 2011
Projects to be funded include Green Deal refurbishment programme, deputy prime minister says
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English Heritage set to recommend Broadgate listing
23 May 2011
Make’s controversial scheme could be scuppered if government agrees
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Change to planning bill makes finance a factor
19 May 2011
RIBA warns that change could undermine integrity of planning system.
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Two men to stand trial for Stephen Lawrence murder
18 May 2011
Pair are to stand trial over killing of black teenager in south east London in 1993
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Planners “appalled” at cash for permissions proposal
13 May 2011
RTPI claims proposed amendment to Localism Bill would make money the overriding factor for councils
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John Penrose gives first interview as architecture minister
13 May 2011
Minister says he rejected handing portfolio over to business department
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Austin-Smith Lord scoops top prize at Manchester awards
13 May 2011
Firm’s Stockport College is named Building of the Year
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Widow hits out at Rees’s claims over Broadgate
12 May 2011
Foggo ’didn’t hate his own buildings’
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Leicester University unveils medical building plans
9 May 2011
Associated Architects’ scheme is part of £200 million estate overhaul
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Developer drops plans for Chelsea Barracks hotel
6 May 2011
Plans for a boutique hotel within the Chelsea Barracks scheme have been abandoned due to “substantial” opposition from residents.
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Greek Thomson masterpiece under threat of demolition
6 May 2011
Property developer applies to have Egyptian Halls in Glasgow bulldozed
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Vincent Tabak admits killing Jo Yeates
5 May 2011
Buro Happold consultant and Bristol neighbour of Yeates pleads guilty to manslaughter
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Danish firm BIG defeats Zaha Hadid to win Albanian competition
5 May 2011
New cultural complex in capital Tirana aims to promote religious harmony
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Inspector rejects Robert Adam's Athlone House scheme
21 April 2011
Details of judgement suggest battle with Hampstead locals is far from over
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New director of the V&A appointed
21 April 2011
German Martin Roth will take over from Mark Jones
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Nord splits due to irreconcilable differences
20 April 2011
One of Britain’s most exciting young firms, Nord, has split up due to irreconcilable differences between its founding directors.
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Peter Cook to judge this year's Stirling Prize
18 April 2011
Archigram founder to be joined by Angela Brady and Hanif Kara
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SOM team bags permission for huge east London scheme
11 April 2011
Revised plans for Leamouth Peninsula approved by London Thames Gateway Development Corp
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Staff pay delayed again at RMJM
6 April 2011
Salaries have been delayed to RMJM staff in Hong Kong once more, despite the ongoing injection of £8 million into the firm under last month’s refinancing deal.
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Zaha Hadid's Aquatics Centre will 'look nicer' post Olympics, IOC admits
5 April 2011
Appearance of landmark 2012 venue compromised by water wings
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Make's Croydon scheme submitted for planning
5 April 2011
Cherry Orchard Road includes tallest building in the area
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Architecture minister unveils Stonehenge funding package
4 April 2011
Work on Denton Corker Marshall visitor centre on course to start next year
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Cabe could become 'DeCabe'
21 March 2011
New name emerges at New London Architecture seminar on design review
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Ian Simpson and Gort Scott in shortlist for Salford scheme
10 March 2011
Cazenove Architects and Swedish firm White Arkitekter also shortlisted in RIBA competition
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RMJM bosses need to go, says Far East rival Aedas
10 March 2011
Aedas chairman attacks practice owners after recruiting their entire China projects team
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Norman Foster backs under-fire Duke of York
9 March 2011
Duke’s valuable role as a UK trade envoy is under-appreciated at home, architect insists
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American RMJM employee quits and berates CEO
8 March 2011
New York-based Peter Morrison heads to Mipim despite resignations
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Iranian Embassy design shelved
8 March 2011
Plans in Kensington by Daneshgar Architects said to have been withdrawn
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Gensler claims businesses key to tackling London's 'open space deficit'
8 March 2011
Practice unveils new research at Mipim in collaboration with the Urban Land Institute
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Foster & Partners' Ruskin Square goes to planning
7 March 2011
New images revealed of East Croydon scheme
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Cable claims planning system is a barrier to economic growth
7 March 2011
Business secretary says thousands of bad decisions add up to a “huge missed opportunity”
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RMJM boss admits "two very difficult years"
4 March 2011
Under-fire chief executive Peter Morrison thanks staff for “understanding” but offers no apology over salaries
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Foster & Partners wins £1.7 billion cultural hub project in Hong Kong
4 March 2011
Firm scoops prized job ahead of Rem Koolhaas’s OMA and local firm Rocco Design
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RMJM principal suspended after email tirade
4 March 2011
Hong Kong staffer made public attack on CEO Peter Morrison
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China rises to top of global construction
4 March 2011
Housing boom spurs continued growth
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'Cynical' architects turned blind eye to evils of Gaddafi regime
2 March 2011
Libyan author accuses architects of being ’insincere’ in their reaction to crisis
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More UK firms vow to stay out of Libya till Gaddafi goes
28 February 2011
Edward Cullinan among practices following Feilden Clegg Bradley’s lead
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Aecom pulling staff and their families out of Libya
24 February 2011
Largest employer of architects in the world defends work in the country.
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Star architects appeal to Boris to save Design for London
22 February 2011
London’s threatened design advisory body backed by Herzog, Gehry, Libeskind, Piano and Hadid
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Feilden Clegg Bradley pulls out of Libya
22 February 2011
Practice vows never to work in country again while the Gaddafi regime holds power
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UK firms chase Chinese and Russian cultural districts
18 February 2011
Farrell shortlisted to masterplan Beijing development; Chipperfield for St Petersburg plan.
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Populous shows off 2012 Olympic overlay work
17 February 2011
Work for Locog will create “delight” as well as well-functioning venues and infrastructure.
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Design for London poised to survive spending cuts
17 February 2011
Mayor’s advisory body set to continue in a reduced form as Design Council outlines Cabe’s future
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Mecanoo academic building in Amsterdam starts on site
15 February 2011
A new academic building at the Amsterdam University College, designed by Dutch practice Mecanoo, has started on site.The new Liberal Arts & Science building will be located in the Science Park, the international science and research centre in the Watergraafsmeer area, and is scheduled to be completed in 2012.The 6,000sq m facility will form a new entrance into the Science Park together with the Anna Hoeve, a historic farmhouse.The new structure will boast a zigzagging
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Rogers Stirk Harbour bags another Thames-side development
14 February 2011
Tideway Wharf granted planning by Wandsworth Council
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Innovative gay retirement community plans unveiled
14 February 2011
Architect says scheme in Palm Springs, California, will keep residents fit and active
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Zaha Hadid cashes in as firm's profits treble
4 February 2011
Zaha Hadid received a personal dividend of £1.5 million in the last financial year on the back of a near trebling of profits at her practice.Accounts filed for the world-renowned signature firm show announced a year of “significant success” with pre-tax profits at the company leaping to £4.1 million in the year to April 2010 compared with £1.6 million in the previous period.Turnover meanwhile grew by by more than 50%, from £29 million to £45 million.During the year,
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Prince Charles driven 'insane' by classicist label
4 February 2011
Work with the Foundation for the Built Environment not about style, HRH insists
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Michael Gove in new attack on 'award-winning architects'
3 February 2011
Secretary of State for Education again uses public platform to accuse profession of getting rich at public expense
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Stuart Lipton leads investigation into strengthening localism
2 February 2011
Former Cabe chairman to examine how cities can cut ties with Whitehall
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Richard Rogers appeals to government to save Cabe
31 January 2011
Allow the proposed merger with the Design Council to take place or Britain’s quality of life will suffer, architect argues
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Rogers, HOK and Hopkins among Shell Centre line-up
28 January 2011
Rogers Stirk Harbour, Allies & Morrison, Hopkins and HOK are among those in the frame for one of the most prized schemes in London – the redevelopment of the Shell Centre
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Unemployment among architects falls again
26 January 2011
Official statistics for December show falling dole numbers for third month in a row
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Danish woman guilty of fraudulent attempt to register as architect
25 January 2011
Fine for woman who falsely claimed qualification in home country
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Work starts on Witherford Watson Mann's Flat Iron Square scheme in Southwark
25 January 2011
Work has begun on Witherford Watson Mann’s scheme to redevelop Southwark’s Flat Iron Square.The project aims to make the square, which is intersected by Union Street, into a “better, brighter and cleaner” public space according to client the London Development Agency (LDA).It will close off the southern arm of Union Street, reconnect the central island to the local parade of shops and improve paving, furniture and lighting in the area.Flat Iron Square is part of the wider
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Councils in court to challenge BSF scrapping
25 January 2011
Waltham Forest claims education secretary snatched away ’once-in-a-lifetime opportunity’
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Buro Happold consultant charged over murder of Jo Yeates
24 January 2011
Dutch architectural consultant Vincent Tabak to appear at Bristol Magistrates
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Spurs plan would 'trash' country's sporting reputation, warns Coe
24 January 2011
Sebastian Coe has warned that Britain’s sporting reputation would be “trashed” if the Olympic Stadium was demolished to make way for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.As BD noted on Friday, Coe, the chairman of the London 2012 organising committee (Locog) had promised the International Olympics Committee (IOC) that a key part of the 2012 legacy would be the stadium’s athletics track, something Spurs has not included in its tenancy bid.Coe called the Spurs proposal – designed by KS
