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NewsArmitt quits chief Gateway role
Thames Gateway chief executive Judith Armitt (right) has resigned just two weeks after Gordon Brown announced a plan for the region including a £9 billion investment.
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NewsCrab emerges on the shores of Lake Maggiore
Peter Cook and Gavin Robotham’s Crab Studio has won a competition to design this new municipal theatre in Verbania, on the shores of Lake Maggiore in Italy.
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Homeowners give new estates thumbs down
Almost a third of homeowners living in new housing estates have slammed their environments as characterless.
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NewsMUMA triumphs in Bath arts contest
McInnes Usher McKnight Architects (MUMA) has triumphed in a head-to-head with Tony Fretton Architects for Bath University’s new arts complex.
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NewsGoing local in Muscat
Foster & Partners’ latest scheme is the masterplan for a new coastal city near Muscat in Oman reflecting traditional Omani architecture.
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NewsHotel hangout
This Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners-designed proposal for the Berkeley Hotel site in Knightsbridge, central London, has won the backing of Westminster City Council’s planning committee.
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NewsCameron launches green energy policy
Conservative leader David Cameron has outlined new plans for a “decentralised energy” revolution.
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Purnell gives museums £100m
More than £100 million is to be devoted to maintaining the assets of government-sponsored museums over the next three years, the Department for Culture, Media & Sport has announced.
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NewsTbilisi tower design revealed
GMW Architects has unveiled its competition-winning design (right) for a £20 million mixed-use building in Tbilisi, Georgia.
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Stop opposing bill, urges RTPI
The Royal Town Planning Institute is urging green groups to stop opposing the planning bill.
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NewsSumeray to lead GBC strategy
Jeremy Sumeray is to become the UK Green Building Council’s director of strategy from January.
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NewsFresh blow to SMC as shortfall looms
The troubled SMC Group has uncovered a further shortfall of up to £800,000 in its accounts.In an announcement likely to deepen concern among shareholders, the group’s board admitted on Thursday that “further investigations” into its finances by an independent firm of accountants had revealed the shortfall, which is in addition ...
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NewsDenton Corker Marshall's Stonehenge visitor centre scrapped
No go for long-awaited visitor centre after government abandons road tunnel plans
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NewsFoster designs new coastal city in Oman - images
Foster & Partners has revealed designs for its latest scheme, a masterplan for a new coastal city near Muscat in Oman reflecting traditional Omani architecture.Al Madina Al Zarqa, the Blue City, will be home to 200,000 people, and will be formed by a series of clustered communities featuring schools, a ...
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NewsNord wins Urban Splash competition for Stoke-on-Trent waterside
Nord has defeated Studio Egret West and Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands transform a site in Stoke-on-Trent for Urban Splash. The project will see the 4.6 hectare City Waterside site - centred on the Caldon Canal - redeveloped to include “iconic new buildings" as well as the refurbishment of a pottery ...
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NewsMUMA beats Fretton to win Bath arts complex
McInnes Usher McKnight Architects (MUMA) has triumphed in a head-to-head with Tony Fretton Architects for a Bath University’s new arts complex.MUMA and Fretton were the final contenders in the RIBA-backed competition after three other shortlisted schemes by Stanton Williams, Jamie Fobert and Penoyre & Prasad were rejected in September.The project ...
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NewsDefiant RMJM tells Unesco to back off
Gazprom tower decision belongs to the city, says architect
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NewsUrban expert attacks eco-towns concept
Fears grow over 'recycling' of sites previously rejected for housing