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    School-to-homes scheme go-ahead

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Alan Phillips Architects has won planning for an ultra high-density residential scheme in Haywards Heath, West Sussex.

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    Blue plaque for Pevsner’s house

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    The late architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner was this week honoured with an English Heritage blue plaque at 2 Wildwood Terrace Hampstead, north London, where he lived from 1936 until his death in 1983.

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    Call to rebuild St Bride’s bell tower

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Gordon Benson of Benson Forsyth Architects has called for the demolished campanile of Gillespie, Kidd & Coia’s St Bride’s Church in East Kilbride (pictured) to be rebuilt.

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    Next Generation 2008 launched

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    The Architecture Foundation and Pipers have launched the 2008 Next Generation Architects Award.

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    Brown targets built environment

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    The built environment has featured strongly in the Queen’s Speech, with bills proposing sweeping changes to the sector.

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    Restored St Pancras station opens

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    The restored St Pancras station was officially opened on Tuesday.

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    Liverpool’s new design goes ahead

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Liverpool Football Club’s bold new £400 million stadium (above) by HKS Architects won planning approval this week.

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    Sanaa boxes clever in New York

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    New York’s New Museum of Contemporary Art has unveiled its first dedicated building, designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa’s practice Sanaa.

  • No longer on the design beat: police security experts may be dropped.
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    Anti-crime design team faces cuts

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Local councils set to take over Metropolitan Police advisory role

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    NT buys land to save it from development

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    The National Trust plans to buy greenfield land in a bid to stop the government “eroding” the countryside with its ambitious house-building agenda.

  • A central atrium with views down to the refectory will be the main orientation point of the campus, linking key areas.
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    RMJM sets a new pattern for Paisley University campus

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    RMJM has applied for outline planning permission for this £75 million campus for the University of Paisley.

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    Hackney regenerates

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    The second phase of Levitt Bernstein’s celebrated Queensbridge Quarter has received planning permission.

  • Ramboll Whitbybird’s proposal for the extension’s facade.
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    Four firms on RIBA’s Cheltenham shortlist

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Berman Guedes Stretton, David Grindley Architects, Ellis Williams and Ramboll Whitbybird have been shortlisted in an RIBA contest to work on Cheltenham’s art gallery and museum.

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    Mull paints it black

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Edinburgh-based practice City Architecture Office has gone on site with this theatre production centre on the Isle of Mull.

  • The original 2006 scheme, with the contentious glass facade.
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    Sheppard Robson’s Trocadero plan rejected

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    A landmark 500-bed hotel proposed by Sheppard Robson on the site of London’s famous Trocadero complex has been sent back to the drawing board by Westminster City Council’s planning committee.

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    Pier centre picked as Scotland’s best

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Reiach & Hall’s Pier Arts Centre in Orkney has beaten competition from buildings including Zaha Hadid’s Maggie’s Centre at Kirkcaldy to scoop Britain’s most lucrative architectural prize.

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    Beetham Tower takes tall award

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Ian Simpson has scooped an international award for his Beetham Tower in Manchester.

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    Students make building of waste

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Architecture students at the University of Sheffield have helped to design a temporary building constructed entirely out of waste.

  • Benn: educational function.
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    Climate role for landscape design

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Environment secretary Hilary Benn has urged landscape architects to help solve climate change.

  • P&HS Architects’ health centre scores highly on green criteria.
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    Natural approach for GP clinic

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    P&HS Architects has submitted a planning application for a £3 million health centre in Eaglescliffe, Stockton-on-Tees