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NewsPFI’s biggest school scheme opened
England’s largest education PFI project, a £130 million school scheme in Nottinghamshire by Aedas AHR architects, officially opened this week.
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Sustainability wins prizes
Entrants are sought for the 2009 Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy, with prizes of up to £30,000.
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OFT investigates agencies
Some of the UK’s biggest architectural recruitment agencies have been accused of price-fixing by the Office of Fair Trading.
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Foster wins commission to renovate New York’s Public Library
Foster & Partners has won the commission to re-design the New York Public Library in Manhattan as part of a $1 billion plan to transform the entire New York library system.
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NewsOslo scraps Koolhaas library design
Rem Koolhaas’s design for a new central library in Oslo, Norway, has been scrapped, after the city decided to re-locate the library to a site near the Snøhetta designed opera house in Bjørvika.
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RIBA joins forces with recruitment firm for new part II bursary
The RIBA has launched an annual £10,000 bursary scheme for promising but hard-up architecture students.
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NewsBlears tells homes quango to promote good design
Communities secretary Hazel Blears called on the new Homes & Communities Agency to champion good design last week, as the super-quango revealed new details of its structure.
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Boris proposes three-year plan for affordable homes
Mayor Boris Johnson has opened negotiations with London boroughs to agree a programme to deliver 50,000 affordable homes over the next three years.
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NewsWork starts on LCE Architects’ eco-friendly sports centre
Designs for a £4.3 million eco-friendly sports and community centre by LCE Architects have been unveiled by Westminster City Council.
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MAD's Superstar scheme
Archibabble has returned, not that the pretentious twaddle architects are capable of ever went away, but we’re re-starting our search for the worst of “wisdom” shared. Here’s our first particularly mad entry.
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NewsAstearchitecture’s platform perches in the Austrian Tyrol
Austrian practice Astearchitecture has designed this steel and timber viewing platform, which perches 3,200m above sea level on Mount Isidor in Tyrol, western Austria.
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NewsMake at the movies
Make’s designs for a stainless steel luxury hotel and Odeon cinema on Leicester Square in central London have been approved by Westminster City Council.
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NewsCabe can't let Victoria scheme go
Cabe still has major concerns about Kohn Pederson Fox’s (KPF) troubled masterplan for Victoria in central London, despite a massive overhaul of the proposals, BD has learnt.
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American architecture billings index shows drop-off in government work
The latest American Architectural Association’s Architecture Billings Index suggests that previously safe government work has begun to be hit by the credit crunch.
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NewsMoxon's 'hedgehog' office submitted for planning
Moxon’s designs for an £8 million spiky office building, already dubbed the "hedgehog" have been submitted for planning in Preston, Lancashire.
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NewsFuksas' Peres Peace House to open in Israel
A ceremony to inaugurate the Peres Peace House at Jaffa in Israel, by Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas, is to be held this week.
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NewsDelft ideas competition is first step to rebuild fire-ravaged architecture faculty
Delft University of Technology, TU Delft, has launched an international ideas competition to re-design its faculty of architecture building, which was devastated by fire earlier this year.
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NewsAngus Meek wins Weston-super-Mare pier rebuild
Bristol-based architect Angus Meek Architects has won the competition to redevelop Weston-super-Mare’s fire-ravaged Grand Pier, beating off competition from five firms including Grimshaw.