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NewsAsh Sakula nets £45m job
Ash Sakula has won its largest project to date — a £45 million cultural quarter to be built alongside Rafael Viñoly’s visual arts centre in Colchester, Essex.
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NewsCJ Lim’s pie in the sky
Newly appointed professor at the Bartlett school of architecture, CJ Lim, has unveiled this weird and wonderful solution to the capital’s traffic gridlock — the Sky Transport for London project.
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NewsNew image for warehouse
Trevor Horne Architects has received planning permission for this £2.5 million conversion of a warehouse into a photography studio, offices and flats for the photographer and film director Rankin.
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Swindon picked as site for McCloud housing
DSDHA and Wright & Wright are to design two schemes in Swindon, Wiltshire, of up to 200 homes each as the first venture for TV presenter Kevin McCloud’s Hab Housing project.
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Lottery cash for docks museums
Purcell Miller Tritton and van Heyningen & Haward Architects have secured £5 million worth of Heritage Lottery funding to turn a grade II listed building in Chatham into a gallery and storage area for marine collections.
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NewsManchester block wins approval
HKR has won planning permission for a £35 million office building in the Great Bridgewater area of Manchester.
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Get green with online database
BRE Certification has launched a digital database to help built environment professionals reduce their carbon footprints.
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Shoreditch opens allotment project
Former RIBA president Maxwell Hutchinson has opened the Vacant Lot project, a drive to create a sense of community in inner-city locations, run by architects Ulrike Steven and Gareth Morris of innovation company What If.
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NewsDiane Haigh joins Cabe board
Cabe has made Allies & Morrison’s Diane Haigh its director of architecture and design review.
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NewsHopkins wins Olympic velodrome
This concept design by Hopkins Architects with Expedition Engineering is the winning proposal for the Olympic velodrome.
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Brown plans new house-building boom but ditches super-casinos
Prime minister Gordon Brown yesterday signalled a new house-building boom, calling for three million new homes to be built by 2020. Providing a preview of proposed legislative measures set to appear in the Queen’s speech this autumn, the prime minister indicated that environmental and sustainability issues would feature strongly in ...
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NewsTop architects to revitalise Sheffield
But retail row erupts over mixed-use scheme to develop city centre
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NewsZaha Hadid completes her Serpentine pre-pavilion – images
The first pictures of Hadid's installation for the Serpentine Gallery
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NewsViñoly’s walkie talkie wins go-ahead
The government has approved Rafael Viñoly’s controversial “walkie talkie” tower, concluding that it would “make a significant architectural contribution to London”.Land Securities won planning permission for the 39-storey tower at 20 Fenchurch Street after a public inquiry raised questions about its architectural integrity and impact on key views of London. ...
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NewsArchitects chosen for McCloud’s Hab Housing project
DSDHA and Wright & Wright are to design two schemes in Swindon of up to 200 homes each as the first venture for Kevin McCloud’s Hab Housing project.The two practices were selected from a 50-strong long-list for the project, which is to be filmed for a Channel 4 documentary.McCloud said: ...
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NewsNews Junkie: 7 and 8 July
This week's bizarre vocations include nighthawking, happiness indexing, micro-miniaturising, growth summit chairing, cathedral cloning, stoat-watching and Gore-baiting.
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NewsSMC Alsop’s transport of delights
SMC Alsop’s colourful new platform for the Docklands Light Railway at London’s Stratford station has opened.
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NewsHodge receives lukewarm welcome
Architects have bid a less than fond farewell to David Lammy, who has been replaced as architecture minister by Margaret Hodge in last week’s government reshuffle.
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NewsFrench firm joins Chinese art scene
Designs by French architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte for China’s new art museum, the Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art in Beijing, were unveiled this week.
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NewsPrescott was advised against Vauxhall tower
Former deputy prime minister John Prescott gave planning permission for Broadway Malyan’s highly contentious 50-storey Vauxhall Tower in 2005, even though his advisers recommended he refuse it, claiming it would damage a world heritage site.