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NewsForeign Office's design for Birmingham New Street unveiled (images)
The first images of Foreign Office Architects’ competition-winning designs for Birmingham’s New Street Station have been unveiled.
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RIBA calls for simplification of planning rules
The RIBA has called for simpler planning rules for smaller developments and for more to be done to encourage the establishment of local design review panels.
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New minimum design threshold for BSF
Minister for schools Jim Knight today hailed the new minimum design threshold for the £45 billion Building Schools for the Future programme and revealed teachers are to sit on Cabe’s dedicated design review panel.
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Cabe scheme would boost quality of Thames Gateway homes
Cabe has launched a new initiative to strengthen the design standards for the Thames Gateway Delivery plan.
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Staff face the axe at Urban Splash
Urban Splash is set to cut jobs due to the ongoing effects of the credit crunch.
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NewsBDP shines for Little Britain
BDP scooped the prize for the highest placed architect in the Little Britain Challenge Cup sailing regatta last week (pictured), trouncing the other 27 architects who took part.
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NewsLondon mayor: South Bank towers are inappropriate
London mayor Boris Johnson has dealt a massive blow to Ian Simpson and Wilkinson Eyre’s neighbouring tower projects on the South Bank, labelling them “unacceptable”.
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NewsZumthor wins Praemium Imperiale
Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has been named the Japanese Art Association’s Praemium Imperiale architecture laureate for 2008.
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Prasad hits out at RIBA ‘old boy’s club’ attack
RIBA president Sunand Prasad has hit out at the head of one of the UK’s biggest architecture practices after hearing him describe the profession an “old boy’s club”.
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NewsHospital art to take patients' minds off the wait
Sustainable waiting room installation in Rome will be powered by solar PVs
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NewsFeng shui makeover for Chinatown
The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment has proposed “healing” parts of London’s Chinatown using ancient Chinese traditions of feng shui.
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Blackfriars towers pair offer their view at inquiry
Ian Simpson and Wilkinson Eyre’s Jim Eyre have offered a robust defence of their neighbouring tower projects on London’s South Bank, in the first week of a joint public inquiry into the schemes.
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NewsCroydon Council backs Foster Gateway
Croydon Council now supports Foster & Partners’ £600 million Croydon Gateway scheme after cutting ties with the developer behind the rival Michael Aukett Architects-designed scheme.
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Go ahead for Norwich campus
Aukett Fitzroy Robinson has won planning consent for its £120 million masterplan to redevelop City College in Norwich.
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NewsAnger as visitor centre list chosen in six hours
RIBA and RIAS join architects calling on National Trust to explain Hadrian’s Wall decision
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Hiring foreign architects set to become harder
...as RIBA survey reveals growing globalisation of large practices
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NewsListing threat to Chelsea Barracks development
English Heritage has dealt a new blow to Rogers Stirk Harbour’s controversial Chelsea Barracks scheme by recommending a Victorian chapel on the site be listed at grade II.
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NewsFirst steps in Venice
Scotland’s first Venice Biennale pavilion, by Gareth Hoskins, is a 7m-high timber structure inspired by public steps.
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