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NewsRobin Hood Gardens competition: Entries round-up
The response to the BD/AF competition for idea for the redevelopment of Robin Hood Gardens drew a phenomenal response from architects all around the globe.
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NewsViñoly Battersea plan ‘a menace’
Rafael Viñoly unveiled his masterplan for the redevelopment of the Battersea Power Station site amid a storm of protest last week.
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RIBA competition for flood-proof house
The RIBA is to launch a competition with insurer Norwich Union to create a prototype flood-proof house for the Thames Gateway.
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NewsAtkins profits defy crunch
Design and engineering giant Atkins brushed off the financial woes affecting other construction companies with a strong set of annual results this week.
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NewsEllis Miller plays it large for Rutland’s Big Build scheme
Architect Ellis Miller has released the first images of its biggest ever project, a £26 million mixed-use development for Rutland County Council.
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NewsArchitects to take lead in zero-carbon schools drive
Leading architects Robin Nicholson, Peter Clegg and Irena Bauman are to sit on a government panel helping to ensure that all new schools are zero carbon by 2016
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NewsHeritage Fund pledges £23m for threatened buildings
The Heritage Lottery Fund on Friday pledged £23 million for scores of threatened buildings, including £7 million for a grade II* listed church in Bolton and Georgian town house in Llanelli in Wales.
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NewsRMJM's Russian tower houses 'hanging' garden
RMJM has unveiled exclusive images of a proposed tower building in Ekaterinburg, Russia’s third largest city, which houses a vertical ‘hanging’ garden – believed to be the only one of its kind in the world.
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Donation saves Cutty Sark project
An 86-year-old Israeli shipping magnate has donated £3.3 million to the restoration of the historic tea clipper, Cutty Sark
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NewsPiazza helps to reveal Minster
York City Council has approved plans to create a piazza outside the city’s famous Minster.
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Grosvenor blasts RSHP scheme
Leading landowner and developer Grosvenor has called Rogers Stirk Harbour’s £1 billion redevelopment of London’s Chelsea Barracks “monotonous”
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NewsCelebratory Aspire tower complete
Make’s Aspire tower at Nottingham University was completed on Monday
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Walker steps down in SMC rejig
SMC Group executive chairman Rodney Walker is stepping back from frontline duties at the huge listed practice following a company reshuffle this week.
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NewsWakefield market hall stays simple
David Adjaye’s £3 million market hall in Wakefield opened this week, marking a major step forward in the town’s regeneration.
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NewsCouncil anger as EH asks for Birmingham library listing
Birmingham Council has harshly criticised the city’s central library after English Heritage recommended the 1973 building be grade II listed.
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NewsEco-town designs look ‘too commercial’
Designs for a number of the proposed new eco-towns have been criticised as being unambitious, overly commercial and lacking identity in a report by a government advisory panel.
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NewsFestival has a good point
A 10m-high conical structure by Foster & Partners was unveiled last weekend on Exhibition Road to mark the opening of the London Festival of Architecture.
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Mayor’s adviser backs Nash Ramblas plan
Planning adviser to the London mayor, Simon Milton, has backed Terry Farrell’s scheme for a pedestrian boulevard running from Primrose Hill to the Mall.
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Leeds joins green awards winners
This year’s Ashden sustainable energy awards included Leeds City Council, which has saved around 88,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year through energy efficiency, and Kensa Engineering, for its easy-to-install heat pumps.
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NewsVictorian horse repository reborn
Construction work on Ryder Architecture’s £2.5 million redevelopment of the grade II listed Cooper’s Auction Yard in Newcastle has begun.