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RMJM tower jeopardises St Petersburg's world heritage status
Unesco threatens action over 396m Gazprom HQ
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NewsCoin Street wins approval for 43-storey tower
Lifschutz Davidson Sandiland’s controversial Doon Street tower on London’s Southbank was narrowly approved by Lambeth council last night.Planning approval for the 43-storey tower and swimming pool complex for Coin Street Community Builders was passed by two votes to one, despite opposition from English Heritage and former colleagues of National Theatre ...
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NewsNews Junkie: 25 and 26 August
In this week's specially-delayed, remit-extended, Bank Holiday-inclusive round up of UK newspaper articles about the built environment propped up with pointless sarcasm, more of the usual.
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NewsUK’s young guns hit New York
A new exhibition of young London architects is impressing New Yorkers with some distinctively local approaches. Jo Rippon reviews the show and gets the first reactions from Thursday's opening night
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NewsM&S dressed to impress by Make
Make Architects’ first major scheme, a redevelopment of Marks & Spencer’s former headquarters, is nearing completion.
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NewsConsortium move pays off with Bristol PFI success
Practices’ joint venture on coveted Southmead hospital shortlist
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NewsLasdun invoked in South Bank battle
Doon Street tower would be ‘disastrous’ say National Theatre architects
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NewsTimber industry: PRP fire an accident
A fire that destroyed two PRP-designed blocks in the centre of Hatfield is being treated as an accident, according to the UK Timber Frame Association.
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NewsShortlist out for 2012 temporary arenas
Grimshaw, Wilkinson Eyre and David Morley Architects are among those shortlisted for the 2012 basketball and fencing arenas, the Olympic Delivery Authority announced this week. It has shortlisted 10 multi-disciplinary teams for the two temporary facilities.
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RIBA urges government to embed design in planning
Proposals to overhaul the planning system have failed to address the need to raise design standards, the RIBA claimed this week.
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NewsPavilions outgrowing the brief
With the completion of each successive Serpentine Pavilion — there have been seven — the question of how much life is left in the programme becomes harder to avoid. Just how many ways can there be to design what is in effect a glorified marquee?
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Councils still to set energy targets
The Department of Communities and Local Government has denied it is to strip local authorities of powers to set renewables targets above UK guidelines.
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NewsRMJM unveils university info hub
RMJM has unveiled its £23 million library for the University of Sheffield.
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ACA warns against RIBA contract
The Association of Consultant Architects has written to its members warning them to avoid a new contract for consumer clients published last week by the RIBA, which the ACA claims could “bankrupt” them.
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NewsProtestors will keep on fighting
Opponents of the £2 billion Victoria Transport Interchange masterplanned by architect KPF have vowed to fight on after submission of the scheme for planning last week to Westminster council.
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Cabe rejects Clay Farm again
Cabe has urged PRP to carry out a second rethink over its 2,300-home Clay Farm garden suburb near Cambridge.
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Australia seeks architects to combat skill shortage
British architects will be able to emigrate Down Under from next month with virtually no barriers because of a chronic shortage of qualified, experienced architects in Australia.