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NewsEH seeks Television Centre listing
English Heritage has advised culture minister Andy Burnham to list parts of the BBC Television Centre at White City in London at grade II.
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Festival goers back modern design
A public debate this week on whether Prince Charles was right to dismiss modern architecture as glass stumps and carbuncles ended in a comprehensive defeat for his supporters.
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NewsSt Etienne DJs Architecture rocks
Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs from the band St Etienne will DJ at Architecture Rocks, the grand finale and closing party for this year’s London Festival of Architecture.The July 18 evening event, organised by BD, gives architects the opportunity to unleash their musical talents in a battle of the bands.The ...
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NewsLipton and Urban Splash urge refurbishment
Local authority Tower Hamlets and regeneration agency English Partnerships have vowed to press ahead with plans to demolish Robin Hood Gardens, despite interest in refurbishing the estate from leading developers Stuart Lipton and Urban Splash.
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BD/AF competition clarification
The winners list from last week’s BD/AF Robin Hood Gardens design competition inadvertently omitted the following information.
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NewsNo contest for Stonehenge visitor centre, says EH
English Heritage has confirmed it will not hold a design contest to find an architect for the proposed Stonehenge temporary visitor centre.
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NewsGehry’s Hove scheme threatened by crunch
Frank Gehry’s controversial scheme for the sea front at Hove has been thrown into doubt because of the credit crunch.
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NewsDSDHA unveils an underpass to tickle Castleford’s fancy
DSDHA’s long awaited underpass project in Castleford, West Yorkshire, has been unveiled in the week it was confirmed that Channel 4 will finally broadcast the television series on the town’s regeneration next month.
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...as Tories pledge to scrap entire scheme
Eco-towns will be scrapped if the Tories triumph in the next election, the party said this week.
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NewsChipperfield gets down to business
David Chipperfield has won his first competition in France with a scheme for a gateway building at HEC School of Management in Paris.
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NewsRIBA award winners announced
Sixteen RIBA national and 10 European award winners have been named, with next month’s £20,000 Stirling Prize shortlist to be drawn from the national list as well as the British-designed European winners.
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NewsWest London link
A group of architects led by Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands has joined forces to examine key redevelopment plans for Hammersmith in west London, as part of the London Festival of Architecture.
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Solk is chair at Pro-Manchester
Sheppard Robson associate architect Alex Solk has been elected chairman of Pro-Manchester, a group of more than 250 financial and professional firms in the city which aims to promote Manchester’s skills and expertise, and generate business opportunities for Manchester professionals.
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Two more join Building Futures
The RIBA has appointed two new members to the steering group of its think-tank, Building Futures.
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NewsNapier to head homes agency
English Partnerships chairman Robert Napier has been appointed chairman of the Homes & Communities Agency, which is being formed by merging EP and the Housing Corporation.
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NewsPoplar towers go to planning
Multidisciplinary firm Bailey Garner has submitted a £65 million regeneration scheme for planning in London’s Tower Hamlets.
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NewsProtestors set to fight on as Holland Park wins planning
Kensington & Chelsea Council has granted planning permission for Aedas’s highly controversial design for the west London borough’s Holland Park School.
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