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Tories vow to axe Arb
RIBA welcomes pledge, but regulator’s chief executive warns that consumers would suffer
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NewsSour note for FOA’s Mipim showcase
A landmark office scheme by Foreign Office Architects in the City of London has become the latest victim of tough new protection for world heritage sites.
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NewsMipim told new-builds should be ‘last resort’
DEGW chairman calls for end to new developments, as conference focuses on sustainability
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NewsGateshead approves Ikea flat-pack homes
Ikea’s first foray into the UK housing market, a development of affordable flat-pack homes in Gateshead, has been granted planning permission.
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NewsAlsop fears for The Public’s future
West Bromwich arts centre is in danger of being a ‘big nothing’, says architect
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EH ‘cobbled together’ its case against Viñoly
English Heritage was accused this week of presenting a “cobbled-together” case as the public inquiry on Rafael Viñoly’s landmark City of London tower drew to its close.
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Gallery drops Otto’s pavilion design
Frei Otto’s design for this year’s Serpentine Pavilion has been rejected after the gallery admitted his team would not have enough time to develop the architect’s “ambitious” structure.
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Chipperfield wins Norway museum
This £25 million competition-winning scheme by David Chipperfield Architects will be the practice’s first building in Scandinavia.
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NewsLiverpool Waters is ‘pie in the sky’
A £5.5 billion plan by Chapman Taylor Architects to transform Liverpool’s waterfront over the next half a century has been dismissed by observers as a “pie in the sky” project that will never be built.
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Stratford City recruitment drive
Developer Westfield has launched a major recruitment drive for Stratford City, its huge regeneration project next to the London 2012 Olympic Games site.
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Landscape is key to development
The Landscape Institute has joined forces with the government-backed Academy for Sustainable Communities to put landscape at the heart of development.
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NewsCelebrating timber construction
This year’s Wood Awards have opened for the submission of entries.
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UK’s biggest housing scheme
The first phase of a £1.2 billion development in Leeds by Edaw has been submitted for planning permission.
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NewsTower developments for Croydon
Rolfe Judd Architecture and Berkeley Homes have submitted plans for a residential-led development with a 43-storey tower.
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NewsFlacq scheme aims to entice residents back to Leicester city
This new riverside quarter in Leicester by Flacq Architects has won outline planning permission.
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NewsCanterbury theatre goes to Williams
Keith Williams Architects has beaten John McAslan, Levitt Bernstein, RHWL and Burrell Foley Fischer to redesign Canterbury’s Marlowe Theatre.
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Green theme aims to save Architecture Week
This year’s make-or-break Architecture Week will have the theme How Green is Our Space, focusing on sustainability and inspiring the public to think creatively about the spaces around them.
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Architects to join race probe
The Commission for Racial Equality is calling on architects and urban designers to give evidence as part of a new investigation into regeneration and race equality.
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NewsHeritage funding gap feared
The government’s long-awaited white paper on heritage has sparked fears of a looming funding gap in the sector.