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NewsRow grows as RIBA shops ban ACA’s rival contract
The row between the RIBA and the Association of Consultant Architects over client contracts has escalated after it emerged that the institute is refusing to stock the ACA’s rival contract in its bookshops.
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NewsMax Fordham wins 2008 Prince Philip Designers’ Prize
Engineer Max Fordham has won the 2008 Prince Philip Designers’ Prize.
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NewsAHMM and Project Orange win big at 2008 Building for Life Awards
British architects including Allford Hall Monaghan Morris and Project Orange swept the board at this year’s Building for Life Awards organised by Cabe and the Home Builders’ Federation.
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DCLG says one bid in 12 merits ‘A’
Just one of the 12 sites shortlisted for the government’s eco-towns programme has fully met the required standard, it emerged this week.
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NewsMake going nowhere with Noho
Make’s proposal for Noho Square (pictured), on the site of the former Middlesex Hospital in central London, looks increasingly unlikely to be realised after troubled Icelandic owner Kaupthing admitted a string of developers were looking to buy into the scheme.
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NewsCarmody Groarke gets green light
A memorial (pictured) to those who died in the July 7 bombings in London in 2005, by Carmody Groarke with sculptor Anthony Gormley, has been given the go-ahead by Westminster City Council.
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BD campaign highly commended
BD’s Rescue Robin Hood Gardens campaign was narrowly beaten into second place in the British Society of Magazine Editors’ award for campaign of the year.
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NewsMandelson praises ‘perfect’ Benoy
Government minister Peter Mandelson has heaped praise on Benoy Architects as the practice joined a British business delegation to the Gulf this week.
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Lords design bill victory
The cross-party campaign in the House of Lords to put design quality at the heart of the planning bill scored a significant victory this week as the government put in two key amendments.
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NewsDesigners get their teeth into dental practice’s natural setting
Devon-based practice David Sheppard Architects has been granted planning permission for a £1.5 million dental practice and medical centre in Plymouth.
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NewsRock steady in Dhahran
Construction is under way on Snøhetta’s King Abdul Aziz Centre for Knowledge & Culture in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
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NewsBarnet aims high
Work has started on the £28 million redevelopment of Barnet College, north London, by education specialist Perkins Ogden Architects.
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Renewed Shaw House lives again
Purcell Miller Tritton has completed its £6 million restoration of Shaw House, a 16th century manor in Newbury which was once the scene of an assassination attempt on Charles I.
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NewsCardiff training centre approved
A £3 million vocational training centre for people with learning difficulties, by Design Research Unit Wales, has won planning permission.
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Planners express key concerns
Trying to manage the impact of development and increase planning capacity are the two main challenges that face planning systems around the world, a survey has revealed.
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NewsConran replaces Foster on Weston hotel scheme
Foster & Partners has been dropped from a plan to redevelop the Royal Pier Hotel site in Weston-super-Mare and replaced by Conran & Partners.
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RIBA launches facility to predict buildings' energy use
The RIBA has launched Carbon Buzz, an online facility that lets practices monitor their projects’ energy-use.
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RIBA launches research project into opportunities for disabled architects
RIBA, in collaboration with the University of the West of England, has launched a year-long study of the opportunities available to disabled architects, and how they are treated at work.