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NewsStyle over size at budget hotel
Planning permission has been granted for this colourful £4 million hotel in the heart of Manchester.
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NewsAlsop to bid for London design job
Will Alsop made a dramatic bid to run design in London this week, turning his longheld frustrations with the Richard Rogers-led orthodoxy into action.
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Fire-gutted building to be rebuilt with concrete
Broadway Malyan’s timber frame building that was gutted by fire last month will be rebuilt using concrete, the developer has said.
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NewsMcCloud’s grand designs for prefab
Channel 4 presenter invites architects to help design up to 100 homes for new sustainable development
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NewsScottish watchdog calls for tougher design policy
Architecture & Design Scotland this week called on the Scottish Executive to forge a tough new policy on architecture by introducing targets on key issues such as skills, leadership and PFI.
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New Orleans jeopardised by shortage of planners
A shortage of planning officers is jeopardising the reconstruction of New Orleans nearly a year after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city and killed more than 1,300 people last August.
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NewsDesign an arts centre for the Thames Gateway
The third and final Line of Site design challenge goes live today. The brief looks to create an iconic arts centre within the Thames Gateway which will serve as a visual landmark to the entrance to one of the world’s most exciting, vibrant and culturally diverse cities.
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NewsJust who voted for Phillips?
Despite being outed as a BNP member, Peter Phillips won a fifth of the vote in last week’s RIBA presidential vote. Ellen Bennett examines the reasons for his appeal
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Simpson’s Leeds towers win planning permission
Ian Simpson Architects’ soaring tower scheme Lumiere received planning permission last week from Leeds City Council.
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760 register for Prague library competition
The competition to design a new building for Prague’s National Library of the Czech Republic has attracted 760 practices from around the world paying the competition’s 6,000 koruna (£144) registration fee.
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New Space in Stalybridge
Space Craft Architects has won planning permission for this scheme at Longlands Mill in Stalybridge, Cheshire. The practice was selected from a shortlist that included Ian Simpson, Walter Menteth, Patel Taylor and Union North.
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NewsPaddington care
Conservationists were celebrating this week at the news that Network Rail had dropped its plans to demolish the grade I listed Span Four at London’s Paddington Station.
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News24-hr Serpentine marathon: No sleep till Doris Lessing
First of all, I have to come clean. I didn’t make it all the way through. The prospect of spending 24 hours in a Tupperware drum during the hottest July in recorded history initially carried a certain David Blainesque appeal.
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Planners ‘shouldn’t fill green gap’
Planning officers should not be expected to improve the environmental performance of buildings, says a government-backed report on sustainable construction.
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Coleraine’s ‘museum without walls’
O’Donnell & Tuomey Architects has won the hotly contested competition to design a new museum in Coleraine, Northern Ireland. The practice, which was shortlisted for last year’s Stirling Prize, beat competitors Heneghan Peng, Niall McLaughlin, Consarc Design Group and Panter Hudspith Architects to the commission.
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RIBA survey probes members opinions about architecture
The biggest ever survey of architects’ thoughts on the profession, the RIBA and the role of architecture in public life is about to go live. The survey, commissioned by the RIBA to improve communication with members, will be emailed to all architects this month after the draft questions are approved ...