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NewsChetwood suggests housing pods for MPs
Architect Laurie Chetwood has designed a new method of housing MPs without any room for suspect second home payments or unseemly profiteering from rising house prices.
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Half 1999’s buildings at risk have been saved, says English Heritage
Campaigners have welcomed news from English Heritage that almost half the grade I and grade II* listed buildings and monuments on its At Risk register a decade ago are no longer under threat.
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NewsOMA triumphs in China’s Crystal Island contest
OMA has won first prize in an international design competition to develop a proposal for a creative centre in the city of Shenzhen, China.
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NewsSteven Holl's Norwegian museum set for opening
Work is nearing completion on Steven Holl Architects' latest museum, the Knut Hamsun Centre in Hamaroy, Norway.
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NewsEntries open for the 2009 Carbuncle Cup
2009 Carbuncle Cup – nominations now open to find the most hideous new building completed in the UK in the last 12 months..
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NewsSheffield student scoops Part Two scholarship
Sheffield University student Laura Collins has won the inaugural RIBA Stephen Williams Scholarship to finish her Part Two studies during the forthcoming academic year.
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NewsSalisbury law court complex opens
A new law courts complex in Wiltshire designed by the Cambridge office of Feilden & Mawson has opened.
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NewsBoris backs Dixon Jones Exhibition Road scheme despite Guide Dogs protest
London mayor Boris Johnson is on course to revolutionise street design in the capital after strongly backing Dixon Jones’ Exhibition Road scheme in Kensington in the face of a high-profile protest by Guide Dogs for the Blind.
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RIBA warns architects against cutting fees
The RIBA has renewed its campaign to stop architects working for reduced fees — or even for free — as the recession continues.
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NewsArchitecture minister lays into unacceptable condition of West End theatres
Architecture minister Barbara Follett has attacked the state of London’s historic theatres
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Planning rules change will give projects more time to start
Developers are being given more time to start building work on schemes that have already have planning permission under new measures introduced by the government.
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NewsThe fine art of offices
London mayor Boris Johnson will open a Terry Farrell & Partners-designed office block on London’s Greenwich Peninsula next week
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Tuning up begins on opera project
Work began this week on the Nicholas Hare-designed Royal Opera House Production Park in Thurrock, Essex
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NewsWilkinson Eyre’s Oxford Maggies Centre wins planning
Wilkinson Eyre’s treehouse-style cancer centre has won planning permission
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NewsCorby Cube presses on
Hawkins Brown’s £27 million landmark building for Corby town centre, Northampton-shire, has topped out