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NewsAllies and Morrison wins best of the best at the Architect of the Year Awards
All the winners of BD’s Architect of the Year Awards revealed
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NewsGlittering display
Allies & Morrison has celebrated an incredible week after scooping the top award at last night’s BD Architect of the Year Awards and unveiling a new £25 million performing arts centre in Hemel Hempstead.
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NewsSite change for Pompey stadium
Herzog & de Meuron’s proposed 36,000-seat stadium for Portsmouth FC (pictured) is to move after the Royal Navy expressed “operational and security concerns” over plans to build it near a naval base set to be home to two new aircraft carriers.
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Green council to redefine ‘offsite’
Revisions to the Code for Sustainable Homes which ban the use of offsite renewables for new homes have come under fire from the Green Building Council.
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Use cemeteries as parks, says Cabe
Graveyards should be replanned and redesigned to have a dual function as parks attractive to the general public, according to Cabe, which has described them as a “huge untapped resource”.
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NewsSkanska appointed at Bishopsgate
Skanska has won the contract to build the 202m-high, 46-storey Heron Tower (pictured) by Kohn Pederson Fox at Bishopsgate, central London.
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DCM wins award for courts centre
Denton Corker Marshall has won a top award for its £113 million Civil Justice Centre in Manchester (Works September 14).
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Riverbank revelation
Fletcher Priest Architects has revealed the first images of its huge “urban quarter” scheme planned for the north bank of the Thames in central London.
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Heatherwick sued over B of the Bang
Manchester City Council is to sue leading designer Thomas Heatherwick over his controversial B of the Bang sculpture.
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NewsBoathouse goes on site
Feilden & Mawson has gone on site with this mixed-use building which it hopes will become the focal point of the £40 million redevelopment of Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.
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NewsWaterloo is ripe for skyscrapers
London’s Waterloo is set to become home to a new generation of skyscrapers, according to mayor Ken Livingstone.
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Moxon triumphs in Preston competition
Moxon Architects has won an RIBA competition to design a £6 million landmark office building in Preston, Lancashire.
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NewsAedas gets on track
Aedas has won a competition to refurbish Rotherham Central station. The £2.5 million project is part of area’s regeneration led by regional agency Yorkshire Forward.
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Lottery hands out £13 million
A total of 13 towns and cities in the UK have been earmarked to receive £13 million of regeneration cash from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
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EU body defends local rights
Local communities should have a more prominent role in planning, according to a report out this week.
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Goverment IDs five target areas
Junior housing minister Iain Wright has named the Thames Gateway; the South-west; Corby, Northamptonshire; Portsmouth Urban South Hampshire; and Elevate East Lancashire as priority areas for new cultural and sporting facilities.
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NewsSquire & Partners remodels Lasdun
Squire & Partners has completed its refurbishment of the City of London’s Milton Gate, which was originally designed by Denys Lasdun and Peter Softley in the late 1980s.
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Sustainable design panel set up to help planners
A panel focused on improving environmental sustainability has been set up to counter a “desperate” lack of skills among planners.