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  • Spring 2011 is the date set for the centre to open.
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    Causeway takes a giant step forward

    2008-06-13T00:00:00Z

    Three years after winning an international competition to design a new visitor centre at Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland, Heneghan Peng Architects’ scheme was finally submitted for planning this week.

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    Lifting our spirits

    2008-06-13T00:00:00Z

    The Lift, a transportable, trapezoid-shaped theatre venue designed by AOC, will be among the main attractions of this year’s London Festival of Architecture.

  • The park is defined by two 22m-high steel frames, intended to reinforce its linear design.
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    Patel Taylor’s park draws a thin green line through Birmingham

    2008-06-13T00:00:00Z

    Patel Taylor’s £12.5 million scheme for Eastside City Park, a green, linear park planned for Birmingham, has been granted outline planning approval.

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    Credit crunch starts to bite

    2008-06-13T00:00:00Z

    Argent admits that its King’s Cross scheme will be pared back

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    ACA seizes on RIBA letter defending new contract

    2008-06-13T00:00:00Z

    The Association of Consultant Architects has branded the RIBA’s review of its new standard contract as “extraordinary” after RIBA vice-president Jane Duncan wrote to all her members in an attempt to allay fears about the contract.

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    Viewing at a stroke

    2008-06-13T00:00:00Z

    Ramboll Whitbybird’s Riverside Bridge in Cambridge opened last week.

  • Mike Hussey
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    Call to dump design tsar

    2008-06-13T00:00:00Z

    Leading developers have rejected the idea of a London “design tsar”, dismissing the post as “another bloody layer of bureaucracy”.

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    Partnering guide to speed planning

    2008-06-13T00:00:00Z

    A new guide to speed up planning partnerships between councils and developers has been published by planning minister Iain Wright.

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    Six shortlisted for university homes

    2008-06-13T00:00:00Z

    Six practices have been shortlisted from more than 100 entrants to an RIBA competition to design and build 400 student residences for Warwick University.

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    Environmental centre planned for former lime quarry

    2008-06-13T00:00:00Z

    Halliday Clark Architects’ scheme to build an environmental centre in a disused quarry has been submitted to Yorkshire Dales National Park for detailed planning.

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    Student village wins planning

    2008-06-13T00:00:00Z

    Planning permission has been granted for a £37 million student village for the University of Wolverhampton, designed by Manchester-based O’Connell East Architects.

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    Warehouses scheme approved

    2008-06-13T00:00:00Z

    Liverpool City Council has granted planning permission for a scheme by Thinking Space to turn a series of grade II and grade II* listed tobacco warehouses in Stanley Dock into a mixed-use development with 918 apartments, 11,000sq m of office space and 2,800 sq m of exhibition space.

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    Elephants pack their trunks

    2008-06-13T00:00:00Z

    Foster & Partners’ new elephant house at Copenhagen Zoo was opened by the Danish Prince Consort on Tuesday.

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    River Don project in for planning

    2008-06-13T00:00:00Z

    Hopkins Architects has submitted a new sustainable business and residential scheme for Sheffield’s River Don Valley for outline planning.

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    Islington academy goes green

    2008-06-13T00:00:00Z

    Swanke Hayden Connell Architects is to design a new academy and a special needs school for the London Borough of Islington.

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    Calling all inspired photographers

    2008-06-13T00:00:00Z

    Zumtobel is running its quirky Photographic Competition for the 12th year

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    ODA in row over Aquatics Centre legacy provision

    2008-06-13T00:00:00Z

    A row has broken out between the Olympic Delivery Authority and Newham Council over leisure water facilities as part of the legacy provisions associated with Zaha Hadid’s Aquatics Centre.

  • Voyager: “dowdy”
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    Poor designs kill off bus shelter contest

    2008-06-13T00:00:00Z

    A competition to redesign London’s 12,000 bus shelters has been scrapped because the shortlisted schemes by firms including Conran & Partners, Ian Ritchie Architects and Arups were not considered good enough.

  • RMJM’s Gazprom tower: “a worrying precedent”
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    Unesco ducks St Petersburg heritage issue

    2008-06-13T00:00:00Z

    Anger at ‘in danger’ recommendation

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    Unhappy planners move to private sector

    2008-06-13T00:00:00Z

    The Royal Town Planning Institute has slammed the “target culture” of local authority planning departments, saying it is driving employees to the private sector in search of job satisfaction.