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Public building targets in danger, warns CPA
Hundreds of schools and thousands of new homes will not be built on time, the Construction Products Association (CPA) has warned the government.
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Liverpool pathfinder under fire
Liverpool’s design review body has not been shown any detailed planning applications for new housing in the controversial housing market renewal area.
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Top practices jostle to build
Architects including Make, Glenn Howells and Wilkinson Eyre are vying to design a visitor centre promoting Sherwood Forest and its most famous son, Robin Hood.
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Unesco tight-lipped over Tower
Complaints that officials from Unesco are a bunch of interfering busy-bodies did not stop last week’s tour of the Tower of London, following concern that the building’s World Heritage status is being threatened by new development.
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NewsTrump that tower
Atkins has designed an international hotel and tower in Dubai for American tycoon Donald Trump, pictured here for the first time.
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X list is revived by Tory
Members of the public would finally get the power to tackle unloved and underused buildings under proposals set out by a leading think-tank.
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NewsFosters Dresden triumph
Foster & Partners has completed the redevelopment of Dresden Station in Germany, featuring a new 30,000sq m roof.
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NewsIkea seeks Gateshead approval
Ikea is about to enter the first planning application for its BokLok homes in Gateshead, another of the nine pathfinders set up by John Prescott in 2003. The flatpack homes will have their UK launch at the Building Centre later this month, and the Swedish giant hopes they could provide ...
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Mann Island go-ahead settles waterfront site
Liverpool’s planning committee approved Broadway Malyan’s Mann Island scheme this week, finally settling the fate of the waterfront site originally intended for Will Alsop’s “Fourth Grace”.
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Tate Britain shortlist favours
Up and coming firms DRMM and DSDHA are competing against established names including Rick Mather to become the exclusive architect for Tate Britain.
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Pascall & Watson mulls Atkins takeover offer
Heathrow Terminal 5 designer Pascall & Watson has confirmed that it is considering a takeover bid from multi-disciplinary consultancy Atkins.
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NewsStem cell centre
Sheppard Robson has been appointed to design a £35 million Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh.
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NewsLyon knowledge bank
Austrian firm Coop Himmelb(l)au has released this image of its Musée des Confluences in Lyon, France, now on site.
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Academy contractors set to name main architects
Partnerships for Schools has confirmed that the six contractors appointed to the national framework for city academies will each have to select a main architect to work with.
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Two firms join jinxed Edinburg
Sutherland Hussey Architects and Comprehensive Design Architects are the latest practices to appear in the long running saga of Edinburgh’s £100 million Haymarket site.
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NewsCambridge squared away
Planning has been granted for this graduate hostel for St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, designed by local practice 5th Studio. The one and two storey U-shaped development, on a 900sq m city centre site, will include 22 graduate rooms and accommodation for two fellows.
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NewsSpotcheck: southeast
Good offices Michael Kilgore Associates is to design a major new office development in Kent.