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NewsKnight backs new process for BSF
A new procurement process for Building Schools for the Future will be rolled out before the end of the year after being approved this week by schools minister Jim Knight (pictured).
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NewsPassport for Pimlico
Haworth Tompkins has won planning permission from Westminster City Council for a new 55-unit mixed residential scheme at a conservation site in Pimlico, south-west London, for the Peabody Trust.
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Make sustainable drainage compulsory, says RTPI
The government urgently needs to make sustainable urban drainage systems (Suds) compulsory in all new developments, the Royal Town Planning Institute said this week.
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NewsLiving amid the trees
Multi-disciplinary practice Zebrano has revealed designs for a contemporary villa as part of its redevelopment of the Edwardian Broomfield Estate in Perthshire.
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NewsDavis pulls out of race for president
The battle for the RIBA presidency took a dramatic twist this week as Paul Davis pulled out, leaving Ruth Reed and Andrew Hanson in a two-horse race.
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Piano still working on Shard’s design
Renzo Piano is still finalising designs for Europe’s tallest skyscraper nearly five years after it was approved, it emerged this week.
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Foster prizewinner to study transport links
Foster & Partners has awarded a £6,000 travelling scholarship to a student of Rizvi College of Architecture in Mumbai.
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NewsUrmston’s new Eden
Broadway Malyan has unveiled this apartment scheme, designed as the centrepiece of a major urban regeneration project in Manchester.
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Digital images library to expand
The Chicago-based Society of Architectural Historians has received a $2.7 million grant to develop its online library of architectural images.
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NewsRotunda reopens after restoration
Scarborough’s grade II* listed Rotunda museum reopens today following a two-year, £4.4 million restoration programme.
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Powell Dobson opens London HQ
Welsh practice Powell Dobson has opened an office in London, relocating four staff from its base in Cardiff.
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NewsGormley’s Angel tops lottery poll
Antony Gormley’s Angel of the North has topped a national poll as the UK’s most recognised National Lottery-funded landmark.
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NewsBurd Haward’s ‘overscaled barn’ dances along Guernsey cliffs
Burd Haward Architects has designed a £1 million four-bedroom, granite-clad house for a family in Guernsey.
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NewsVertical ‘common’ plan for Smithfield Market
A 30m-high “vertical common” has been proposed for central London’s Smithfield market site.
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NewsEnglish Heritage fails to back Robin Hood Gardens
English Heritage commissioners have overruled the advice of the organisation’s own advisory committee over the future of Robin Hood Gardens and recommended it is not listed.
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NewsRIBA and ACA split over forms of client contract
Architects will be forced to choose between two rival forms of client contract after the collapse of more than two years of negotiation on the issue between the RIBA and the Association of Consultant Architects.In a move destined to create a major schism between the two organisations, ACA president Brian ...
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NewsKent takes legal action over original Turner Contemporary scheme
Kent County Council is to sue Norwegian architect Snøhetta and British collaborator Stephen Spence over the duo's aborted Turner Contemporary gallery scheme in Margate.The landmark design, which was commissioned in 2001, was to be situated in the sea next to Margate pier. But the project was cancelled in February 2006 ...
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NewsSave Bishopsfield estate, say Beigel and Fretton
Architects including Florian Beigel and Tony Fretton have rallied to support a threatened 1960s experimental housing estate designed by Michael Neylan and Bill Ungless.Bishopsfield estate in Harlow could now be demolished after the local council found the cost of bringing it up to the government’s Decent Homes standard would be ...
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NewsMoore resigns as Architecture Foundation director
Director of the Architecture Foundation Rowan Moore has resigned, it was announced this morning.The move, which has sparked an immediate search for a new director, comes just two-and-a-half months after the foundation ditched its plans for a Zaha Hadid-designed headquarters building - a move it blamed on the credit crunch.Moore, ...