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NewsFoster says recession will not force him to cut jobs
Norman Foster has shrugged off the world’s economic woes, vowing that a looming recession will not force Fosters & Partners to make any cuts to its 1,300-strong staff, despite the wave of redundancies hitting the UK.
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NewsArt applied to the locale
Wandsworth Council has approved the final two phases of a new £33 million campus for the Royal College of Art by Haworth Tompkins.
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NewsCabe calls in Sparks for Crossrail panel
Veteran to chair station review panel with Shuttleworth as deputy
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NewsHope as key public projects accelerate
Architects have welcomed government plans to bring forward billions of pounds of public projects to stimulate the country’s faltering economy amid a further wave of redundancies in the profession.
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NewsHotel tower rethink after Boris intervenes
A proposed 16-storey hotel scheme by Hamiltons on London’s South Bank is likely to be sent back to the drawing board after mayor Boris Johnson went against his own planning officers’ advice to criticise the project.
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NewsUK industry can impact on world forest management, says Greenpeace
New report shows ways of avoiding unsustainable plywood and obtaining FSC certified eco-timber
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NewsAllies & Morrison Lambeth scheme called in by Blears
Communities secretary Hazel Blears has called in Allies & Morrison’s Three Sisters project in Lambeth.
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NewsVan Egeraat’s Leipzig University is topped out
Erick Van Egeraat’s new building for the University of Leipzig in Germany has celebrated its topping out ceremony.
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NewsCouncil claims lack of refurb cash
Tower Hamlets Council has reiterated its opposition to the listing of Robin Hood Gardens, describing the Smithsons’ iconic estate as an “outdated and unpopular design” which has “deteriorated badly”.
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Richard Buckley dies at 45
Architect Richard Buckley, 45, a founding partner of Buckley Gray Yeoman, has drowned while on a family holiday. Buckley (pictured) set up the practice with his wife Fiammetta Gray in 1996.
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NewsMarks Barfield’s i360 kicks off
Work has finally started on Marks Barfields’ i360 tower at Brighton, East Sussex.
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Levitt Bernstein’s Shelter auction
Levitt Bernstein Architects is organising a “secret art sale” in aid of homelessness charity Shelter.
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Village flat numbers slashed again
The Olympic village has been downsized again, losing a further 600 flats as cost pressures on the project continue to mount.
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Low grants are little help to seaside towns
Almost half of the seaside towns given funding in the latest round of Cabe’s programme to regenerate coastal resorts have received £30,000 or less to spend on cultural projects.
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NewsDream design for leisure brings luxury to Italy’s Umbrian hills
Flacq has created a concept design for a new leisure and residential development in Umbria, north of Rome, which it hopes could do for the area what Peter Zumthor’s thermal baths did for Vals in Switzerland.
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Sleeperz hotel gets go-ahead
Clash Architects’ design for a £7.5 million hotel at Newcastle Central railway station has been awarded detailed planning permission.
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PII offender struck off by Arb
Arb has struck off Behzad Sharouz of Sharouz Associates in Crouch End, north London, after he was found guilty of unacceptable professional conduct.
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NewsUniversity’s latest building complete
Work has been completed on a £12 million building at Liverpool University by Shepherd Epstein Hunter.
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Derby infirmary plans unveiled
Leeds-based DLG Architects has unveiled plans to redevelop the site of the former Derbyshire Royal Infirmary.