All Building Design articles in April 2021
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NewsJudge rules virtual planning meetings must halt next week
Legal challenge by planners designed to avoid hiatus in decision-making fails
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NewsGovernment Fire Safety Bill victory ’will see leaseholders ruined’
Campaigners express horror over bill passing financial responsibility for £10bn of repairs on to leaseholders
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NewsGlenn Howells gets green light for 49-storey tower at Paradise scheme
Architect also cleared Midlands planning with student flats scheme
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NewsPrior & Partners team wins £8bn Thamesmead masterplanning competition
Successful line-up includes microbusinesses as well as Arup, Alison Brooks and Turner Works
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NewsRevealed: Green Homes Grant set for autumn reboot
Green construction board chair says business secretary indicated ‘equivalent’ scheme to be launched later this year
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FeaturesInterview: Designing Britain’s biggest infrastructure project
By any standards and on any scale, it’s a huge job – and one with plenty of critics. HS2’s design director Kay Hughes tells Elizabeth Hopkirk she is relishing the unprecedented challenge
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NewsNext phase of HS2 will create ‘considerable opportunities’ for small practices, says design director
Some of early phase 1 designs ‘could have been better’
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NewsEPR approved for 11-storey Nine Elms office on Royal Mail site
Expanded plan cleared despite objections from local campaign group
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NewsRSHP wins Chinese airport terminal job
Practice is a founding signatory of environmental movement Architects Declare
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NewsAdjaye Associates completes Brixton memorial
Cherry Groce Memorial Pavilion honours mother whose shooting by police sparked Brixton riots
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OpinionWhat you need to know about the new draft fire risk appraisal specification
Building Design’s regs columnist Andrew Mellor looks at what PAS 9980 says about assessing fire risk, external wall construction and cladding on blocks of flats
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NewsHLM wins planning for medical R&D centre opposite Parliament
London Institute for Healthcare Engineering will take innovations from conception to commercialision
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NewsWomen architects hit hardest by pandemic, research finds
Females more likely to be furloughed and made redundant, as well as carrying disproportionate domestic burden
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NewsCost of dealing with covid sends bill for Purcell’s Big Ben restoration up again
Scheme originally budgeted at £29m will now cost close to £89m
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NewsSunderland gives permission to Vaux Brewery homes
Proctor Matthews and Mawson Kerr’s 132-home scheme is first part of 1,000-home regeneration project