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ACA attacks chartered scheme
The Association of Consultant Architects has attacked the RIBA’s plan to launch its controversial Chartered Practice scheme, to be launched in the summer.
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NewsRevamp for Euston station
American architect Leo A Daly has beaten competition from Make and Arup for a £1 billion redesign of one of London’s most notorious 1960s eyesores, Euston station.
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NewsLivingstone backs green roofs policy
Major new developments in London will be expected to include vegetated roofs and walls following a policy U-turn by mayor Ken Livingstone.
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Liverpool win for Haworth Tomkins
Haworth Tompkins is celebrating its biggest project win to date after it was appointed to design a £35 million revamp of the Everyman and Playhouse theatres in Liverpool.
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NewsSkanska to develop City offices
KPF will work with contractor-developer Skanska to design this eight-floor office development at 20 Gresham Street in the City of London.
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Three Brits up for Gulbenkian
Purcell Miller Tritton, Long & Kentish and BDP have made it onto the short-list for the £100,000 Gulbenkian architecture prize.
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Viñoly wins Battersea Power site
Rafael Viñoly has beaten Foster & Partners and SOM in a secret competition to masterplan the 38ha Battersea Power Station site.
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NewsUrban golf enthusiast dies at 34
Friends have paid tribute to Jeremy “Jez” Feakes, a director of architecture practice Unit 20, remembering his “drive, intelligence, zest and sense of fun”. Feakes died earlier this week aged 34 after a fall at his studio.
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Bad PFI schools lead to ‘bullying’
The government’s Building Schools for the Future programme is leading to designs that promote bad behaviour and bullying, teachers have warned.
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NewsKelly refuses to rein in councils on green homes
Communities secretary Ruth Kelly has refused to rein in those local authorities demanding faster adoption of the Code for Sustainable Homes, despite intense lobbying from house builders.
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NewsCamden café site rises again as arts and restaurant complex
The Forge Arts Recital Studio by Burd Haward Architects has just gone on site in Camden Town, north London.
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NewsShore thing
As Britain basks in the first sustained period of sunshine this year, Lionel T Dean of design firm Future Factories has unveiled his vision of a contemporary beach hut.
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NewsEdinburgh critics will fight on
£300m Caltongate project in for planning, but campaigners fear it could jeopardise city’s world heritage status
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NewsSoho pool restoration
Munkenbeck & Marshall’s proposed £25 million redevelopment of this historic Soho swimming pool has been submitted to Westminster City Council for planning permission.
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Six in running for Eltham mixed-use development
Six firms have been shortlisted in an RIBA competition for a mixed-use scheme at the Eltham Baths site in south-east London.
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£4 million for seafront revamp
The Northwest Regional Development Agency has approved £4 million of funding for phase two of Blackpool’s Central Seafront redevelopment, masterplanned by Edaw.
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NewsMarylebone project go-ahead
Westminster council has granted planning for Make Architects’ luxury apartment development on Weymouth Street in Marylebone.
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Inspire East and CIC East join up
The Construction Industry Council East and sustainable communities body Inspire East have signed an agreement to work together.
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NewsHousing Corp beats its target
The Housing Corporation has delivered more than 40,000 affordable homes in the first year of its National Affordable Housing Programme — 10% more than its stated target.
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NewsLondon plans world’s largest architecture show by 2012
London’s architecture biennale is set to expand into the largest architecture festival in the world by the time the capital hosts the Olympics, its organiser Peter Muray has revealed.