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NewsNo let-up as HOK slashes UK staff
Architects are continuing to haemorrhage staff, with the fourth biggest firm in the world the latest to cut UK jobs, despite growing evidence of green shoots of recovery in other areas of construction
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NewsCouncil approves rebuilding of Westminster Theatre
Tim Foster Architects and Loates-Taylor Shannon have been granted surprise permission to create the West End’s first major new theatre in decades
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NewsAberdeen row over rival plans
Landscape architect Martha Schwartz is working on a £140 million Aberdeen project which critics claim threatens an arts centre scheme in the same location by Brisac Gonzalez Architects
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NewsRevisions risk scuppering theatre development
Plans by Loates-Taylor Shannon and theatre specialist Tim Foster to rebuild London’s historic Westminster Theatre are hanging in the balance after original plans became unviable
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NewsBurnham to police design standards
Government design champion and culture secretary Andy Burnham will be tasked with ensuring Whitehall departments bring all new government building projects up to scratch
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NewsLink up with opportunities abroad
The second annual Beyond Britain conference - hosted by BD in association with UK Trade & Investment, the government's international business development organisation - will be held on May 21
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Upton housing reaches completion
The UK's first zero-carbon homes outside the BRE Innovation Park have been completed in Upton in Northamptonshire
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Seven on all-time Stirling shortlist
Seven buildings have been shortlisted for the RIBA Journal/Schüco Stirling of Stirlings, a vote for the best building of the entire 175 years of the RIBA’s existence
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NewsHub for the Highlands
Scottish firm 7N Architects has submitted a masterplan for a new 87ha education campus for Inverness for outline permission
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Brighton firm splits as workload collapses
Brighton practice DRP Architects has split into two new companies after losing 90% of its workload because of the recession
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NewsRose Bowl blossoms
Sheppard Robson’s Rose Bowl building for Leeds Metropolitan University was officially opened last Friday
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RIBA trends survey confirms fears women hit hardest by slump
Fears that woman architects are being hardest hit by the recession were today heightened by the RIBA’s latest Future Trends Survey.
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NewsArchitype wins Herefordshire library competition
Architype has beaten Feilden Clegg Bradley, Richard Murphy, Davies Sutton and Panter Hudspith in a competition to design a new £2.9 million library and refurbish an existing Grade II* listed building in Ledbury, Herefordshire.
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NewsYoung practices team-up for shot at school design work
Duggan Morris, Glowacka Rennie, Gort Scott, Harry Dobbs Design and Matthew Springett Associates have formed a consortium to bid for work designing primary schools, and to hold design charettes with education departments of local authorities.
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NewsDownturn threat to Pathfinder scheme
The government’s £2.2 billion Pathfinder project to regenerate some of the most run-down parts of England is “being hit hard by the recession and may struggle to recover”, the Audit Commission warned this week.The Pathfinder scheme’s remit is to use public money to breathe new life into sink suburbs in ...
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Athletes Village to be entirely publicly funded
The government has confirmed that the 2012 Olympic Athletes Village development will not now receive any private funding.
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Chester University plans £30m student accommodation project
The University of Chester has issued an OJEU notice to find a multi-disciplinary team to design and deliver a £30 million student accommodation project.