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NewsBlears revives Farrell scheme
Communities secretary Hazel Blears has overturned Lambeth Borough Council’s decision to refuse planning for the 600-home Founder’s Place scheme by Farrell & Partners in south London.
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NewsForest centre wins PM’s Better Building award
Dalby Forest Visitor Centre in North Yorkshire, by Bristol-based White Design, has won the 2007 Prime Minister’s Better Public Building Award.
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NewsSMC and Aukett drop merger plans
Architects SMC and Aukett Fitzroy Robinson have called off their proposed merger after the two firms failed to agree on a deal. In statements this morning, both companies said they had been “unable to agree satisfactory terms” for the merger proposal, and discussions had ceased.SMC, which two weeks ago unveiled ...
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NewsRead this week's BD as a digital edition
Because of the postal strike we have created a digital edition of BD
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NewsPark wins place in Bradford’s heart
Multidisciplinary firm Gillespies has won planning for its £30 million park in the heart of Bradford, which forms part of Will Alsop’s masterplan for the city. Gillespies fought off Edaw to win the project last year.
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Heatherwick joins fellowship
Designer Thomas Heatherwick and architectural historian Alan Powers are among 10 new RIBA honorary fellows announced this week.
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Ally Pally scheme is blocked
Plans for a £55 million redevelopment of south-west London’s famous Alexandra Palace by Aukett Fitzroy Robinson were blocked by the High Court last week.
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Learn some guerrilla tactics
Places are still available for the RIBA’s small practice conference which takes place next week at Portland Place.
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NewsInspirational Oswald Ungers dies
Oswald Mathias Ungers, the architect responsible for some of Germany’s most important public buildings, has died aged 81.
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NewsKeep ‘village’ of Smithfield, urges Farrell
Terry Farrell has launched a fresh attack on a major office scheme by Kohn Pederson Fox Architects for central London’s historic Smithfield Market ahead of a public inquiry on the project next month.
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NewsProspects rise for U2’s Dublin hotel by Foster
Controversial plans by Foster & Partners and rock band U2 to revamp one of Dublin’s hippest hotels received a boost this week, winning cautious support from city councillors.
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NewsKing’s Cross building signals its intentions
Designs by Stanton Williams for the first building within Argent’s £2 billion King’s Cross masterplan to go on site have been revealed.
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NewsChipperfield beats off Young Vic to take Stirling
David Chipperfield’s Museum of Modern Literature at Marbach am Neckar, Germany, scooped the £20,000 Stirling Prize last week in a narrow win over Haworth Tompkins Architects’ Young Vic theatre.
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NewsHappy landing for lifeboats
Cornwall-based Bazeley Architects has been granted planning permission by East Devon District Council for this £2 million lifeboat station in Exmouth.
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NewsCafé takes occupation
Architects in Residence has completed this military-style kiosk, which stands adjacent to the Imperial War Museum in south London’s Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park.
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RIBA conference to learn from the movies
Film producer Duncan Kenworthy will give a keynote speech on the second day of this year’s RIBA International Conference.
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NewsDoncaster’s new place in history
Cartwright Pickard has won planning permission for this £12 million hotel and leisure scheme in Doncaster, South Yorkshire.
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Win a SPAB scholarship
The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings is inviting new architects to apply for its scholarship scheme.
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BSF grounds lag behind buildings
Schools charity Learning through Landscapes will work with Cabe to probe the quality of school grounds procured through Building Schools for the Future amid concerns they lag behind that of the programme’s buildings.