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NewsPrize for Inverness Maggie’s Centre
Page & Park has won the £25,000 RIAS Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland prize for its Maggie’s Centre in Inverness.
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NewsIkea plans 500 homes a year in UK
Ikea has outlined its plans to build at least 500 identical homes across the UK each year, starting with sites in Gateshead and Scotland.
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News‘Honest architects spend time complying with regulations, fulfilling CPD, carrying the right insurance. All in aid of what?’
Ellen Bennett reports on the human cost of one architect’s breakdown, and why there was no redress
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NewsRising from the ruins
The scaffolding has finally come off Peter Zumthor’s new Diocesan Museum of Cologne, Kolumba, in Germany, due to open next summer.
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NewsModernist furniture banished from Gwynne’s Homewood
Classic pieces of modernist furniture including chairs by Saarinen in Patrick Gwynne’s house, The Homewood, could be put in storage as the National Trust struggles to meet the terms of Gwynne’s will.
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NewsBold as brass
Ken Shuttleworth has found himself caught between a rock and a hard place with these designs for 12 luxury flats, backing onto the Arb headquarters and overlooking the RIBA’s home at 66 Portland Place.
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Green light for Barking Riverside
The largest single housing development in the Thames Gateway has been given planning permission by Barking & Dagenham Borough Council.
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Jowell admits Olympic survey only half done
Culture secretary Tessa Jowell admitted on Tuesday that the survey of the Olympic site in east London was only half completed.
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NewsAtkins gets its quarry
Atkins has won an international competition to design a five-star hotel inside a water-filled quarry in the Songjiang district, near Shanghai in China.
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NewsRiots force Commonwealth architects to delay conference
The 18th Commonwealth Association of Architects Conference, due to open in Dhaka, Bangla-desh, tomorrow, has been postponed amid fear of riots.
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NewsHutchinson and Alsop to vet peers’ designs at SMC
Will Alsop and Maxwell Hutchinson are to vet the designs of their colleagues across the ever-expanding SMC Group in an effort to promote design excellence across its 34 offices.
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NewsLowe building, Hoxton by Muf Architects
Muf Architects has designed this environmentally sustainable building in Hoxton, east London, with a flooded reed roof, solid timber panel construction and nesting places for swans in its canal-side undercroft.
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AUU report will not be made public, says mayor
The report into alleged conflicts of interest and favouritism at the mayor of London’s Architecture & Urbanism Unit will not be made public because it could lead to disciplinary action, Ken Livingstone said this week.
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NewsBluestone boogie
Work has begun on Powell Dobson Architects’ £110 million Bluestone village in south-west Wales.
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‘Disappointed’ Simpson loses Liverpool appeal
Ian Simpson was “surprised and disappointed” by the government’s decision to overrule a planning inspector and dismiss the appeal for his 51-storey Brunswick Quay tower scheme in Liverpool last week.
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NewsGoldschmied sues Rogers
Exclusive: Marco eyes up his former office for redevelopment which could leave RRP homeless
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Queen’s speech tackles planning and emissions
The profession is facing another year of getting to grips with new legislation following the Queen’s Speech on Wednesday, which laid out several key bills in the fields of planning and development to be introduced in the next parliamentary session.