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NewsMilton Keynes drops flagship marina plans
Major clients reject award winning architects for key site because designs are too ‘up in the sky’
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Future schools go green
Up to 200 carbon-neutral eco-schools will be built following last week’s announcement of £110 million in funding by the education secretary.
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History hard to live with, say emergency services
The listings system is preventing emergency services from delivering their services effectively, it was claimed this week.
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Jewish Community Centre designer chosen
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands has won the competition to design London’s Jewish Community Centre, ahead of Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, Foreign Office Architects and Rafael Viñoly Architects.
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NewsHouse of Human Rights embraces bold design
This dramatic design by Wilkinson Eyre Architects is for a new Amnesty International building in Milan.
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NewsZaha wins planning in Lambeth
Zaha Hadid Architects has won outline planning approval for its debut city academy project in Lambeth.
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Save to appeal on Supreme Court
Save Britain’s Heritage has requested permission to appeal against the judicial review which ruled in favour of converting Westminster’s grade II* listed Middlesex Guildhall into a new Supreme Court (News March 30).
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Stansted expansion goes on site
Construction of the £40 million Stansted Airport extension began this week.
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NewsEleven vie for civic building title
A total of 11 buildings across the UK have been shortlisted for the 2007 Scala civic building of the year.
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MP was sustainability trailblazer
Robert Jones, the former Tory minister who championed sustainability before it became a buzzword, died of liver cancer on Monday at the age of 57.
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NewsChapman Taylor sets sail in Portsmouth
Chapman Taylor’s designs for the £350 million Northern Quarter development in Portsmouth’s city centre have been unveiled as part of a major public consultation.
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NewsRMJM working double time on Scottish college project
This £50 million development designed by RMJM on two separate sites is Scotland’s largest further education project.
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NewsAlsop’s US power play
Will Alsop’s designs to trans-form a disused power station in Yonkers, New York, into a multi-use development have been significantly overhauled.
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Lib Dems advocate ‘energy mortgages’
The Liberal Democrats have set out stringent proposals to cut domestic carbon emissions through refurbishment, after taking advice from the RIBA.
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NewsCCA’s monkey business
Work has begun on this £4.5 million chimpanzee enclosure at Edinburgh Zoo by Cooper Cromar Architects.
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NewsGarden suburb must stay basement-free
Plans to alter houses at west London’s Bedford Park — the nation’s earliest garden suburb — have been rejected in a landmark ruling by the Planning Inspectorate.
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NewsSpace Craft and Urban Splash win Bristol design
Space Craft Architects is to design Urban Splash’s second development in Bristol.
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NewsCapita Symonds’ new MD is Goring
Multidisciplinary giant Capita Symonds has appointed Jonathan Goring as its new managing director, replacing Bill Dye, who returns to Capita Group PLC.
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Quality prize for Seacole building
Associated Architects’ Seacole building at the University of Central England has received a Built in Quality award from Birmingham City Council.