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Atkins sheds 51 jobs as it shifts focus to larger schemes
Atkins has shed 51 jobs as part of a strategy to refocus the company’s design teams on larger national projects.
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AHMM's Westminster Academy is bookies’ favourite to win Stirling Prize
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris’s Westminster Academy the 3/1 favourite to win this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize, according to bookmaker William Hill.
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Birmingham leader begs Hodge not to list library
Birmingham City Council leader Mike Whitby has pleaded with architecture minister Margaret Hodge to grant the city’s Central Library immunity from listing in an extraordinary 4,500-word letter.
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Cabe: Hamiltons' Birmingham tower should be refused planning
Cabe has recommended that Hamiltons’ proposed tower scheme in Birmingham, to replace Madin’s unlisted NatWest Tower, be refused planning.
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Acanthus Ferguson Mann geothermal project gets under way in Bristol
Work has begun on a scheme in Bristol designed by local practice Acanthus Ferguson Mann to create one of the country’s largest residential geothermal heating installations.
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New regional strategy for North-east sets targets for homes and economic development
Communities minister Baroness Andrews this week unveiled the government’s new regional plan for the North-east of England.
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Purcell Miller Tritton to open Edinburgh office after ‘bumper’ two years
Specialist heritage architect Purcell Miller Tritton is expanding into Scotland, the firm has revealed, by opening an Edinburgh office following two bumper years of growth.
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RIBA and Africa Union of Architects sign memorandum on education services and CPD
The RIBA has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Africa Union of Architects to boost educational services.
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17 countries agree whole-life costs
The RIBA has welcomed the creation of the first international standard for whole-life costings of buildings.
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NewsJury had doubts over Hadid design
The jury that selected Zaha Hadid’s design for the London Olympics Aquatics Centre raised serious doubts over its cost and design before it was selected in 2005.
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Andreas Papadakis dies
The former publisher of Architectural Design, and Charles Jencks’ global bestseller The Language of Post Modernism, has died.
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Five in running for Seoul scheme
Fosters, Studio Libeskind and SOM are among five architects bidding to design a £14 billion international business district in South Korea.
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New builds harm CO2 aims
The government is failing to reduce carbon emissions from commercial buildings because of its obsession with new builds, the All Party Urban Development Group said this week.
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NewsFronds make roundabout scheme the pick of the crop
A roundabout on the A66 east of Middlesbrough is set to be transformed through this innovative scheme which boasts structural fronds lining the road and “waving in the wind like corn”.
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NewsYork Council dumps practice’s HQ design
York City Council has withdrawn its planning application for a RMJM-designed headquarters building after English Heritage slammed the scheme.
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NewsWhite water centre set to float
The Olympic Delivery Authority has unveiled designs for the Broxbourne White Water Canoe Centre by FaulknerBrowns Architects.
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Essex hotel wins planning appeal
And Architects has won a planning appeal for the Rivenhall Hotel refurbishment scheme in Essex.
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Cepezed scoops highest honour
Dutch practice Cepezed Architects has won the Royal Institute of Dutch Architects’ highest award, the BNA Cube 2008.
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NewsThreefold unfolds winning design
Threefold Architects, working with Jason Bruges Studio, has beaten practices including Atmos and Cottrell & Vermeulen in a contest to design an interactive mobile facility to stimulate creativity.
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