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King’s Cross plan flawed says Cabe
Cabe has found major flaws in John McAslan & Partners’ designs for King’s Cross station in London, which were submitted for planning in May.
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NewsRevisit fire advice, urges timber lobby
The UK Timber Frame Association has called for an overhaul of fire guidelines a week ahead of an emergency summit on the implications of the blaze that destroyed a building site in Colindale, north London, in July (News July 21).
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Cabe called in to boost new schools design
Cabe is to be drafted in to improve the design quality of the government’s £45 billion Building Schools for the Future programme.
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NewsNew kid on the block
Grimshaw has won planning permission for Keyworth II, a new building at London South Bank University in Elephant & Castle.
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NewsHarbour lights
Boston’s new Institute of Contemporary Art, designed by Diller Scofidio & Renfro Architects, opens on Sunday. Standing on the south Boston waterfront, the 6,000sq m building cantilevers to the water’s edge. The width of the north facade is spanned by a glass wall facing the harbour, while a 13sq m ...
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RIBA awards shake up will add prize for time test
The RIBA plans sweeping changes to its awards programme including a new “test of time” award, taking a second look at 10-year-old prize-winning buildings.
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News‘Unfashionable’ Catholic heritage in jeopardy
The UK’s Catholic heritage is “hanging by a thread,” English Heritage has warned.
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NewsMeadowview country house by Platform 5
Platform 5 has won planning permission for Meadowview, a country house in Bedfordshire.
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Atkins parachuted into Sloane Square
Multi-disciplinary giant Atkins has waded into one of the most controversial schemes in the country with alternative designs for London’s Sloane Square.
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NewsBridging Birmingham
PRC Architects has revealed its design for a bridge between Abstract Land and Dandara at Great Charles Street, Birmingham.
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Construction phase needs safety measures
Beyond the residential sector, timber is gaining a growing following thanks to its credentials as a renewable, sustainable resource, and the development of engineered timber products for frames, roofs, walls and even entire buildings.
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Two battle it out in River Lea bridge competition
Knight Architects and Cezary Bednarski are going head to head to design a £2.5 million pedestrian bridge over the River Lea Navigation in Tottenham Hale for British Waterways.
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News‘Design is at the heart of what we are doing here’
Ricky Burdett is to become design adviser to the London Olympics after mounting critcism that the design of the 2012 games is being handed to contractors.
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Government slashes density requirements
The government has scrapped its plans to force local authorities to build to densities of up to 70 dwellings per ha, it was announced this week.
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NewsMiller teams up for Birmingham
Groundbreaking deal unites gallery specialist John Miller and Sidell Gibson for 20-year museum project
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NewsYoung firms lined up for Liverpool housing
Urban Splash has assembled a crack team of young practices for a trailblazing housing scheme in south central Liverpool.
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1,160 enter Stockholm library competition
An astonishing 1,160 entries have been submitted for an open competition to design a £60 million extension to Gunnar Asplund’s iconic public library in Stockholm.