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NewsConran completes Sheffield's tallest building
Conran & Partners has completed Sheffield’s tallest building two years after construction halted.
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NewsCabe fights to survive as DCMS pulls plug
Top brass at Cabe are beginning a frantic search to find alternative sources of funding after it was confirmed the design watchdog is due to be axed next year
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News£15bn school funding ray of hope amid cuts
The RIBA has taken comfort from George Osborne’s announcement that £15 billion is to be invested in the country’s schools in an otherwise bleak scenario for architects involved in the public sector
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NewsArb survives as Reed rues ‘missed opportunity’
RIBA president Ruth Reed has expressed her disappointment over the government’s decision to retain Arb as an independent body, a move that has ruled out the idea of RIBA taking over the registration board’s functions
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NewsPlymouth Civic Centre up for sale
Council says it cannot afford to restore grade II listed 1962 building
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NewsAlsop berates council over go-ahead for Norfolk Tesco
Will Alsop has hit out at his local council for handing planning permission to a highly controversial Tesco development designed by Wilkinson Eyre
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NewsPringle Brandon’s Bank of China fit-out
Pringle Brandon has completed the fit-out for the Bank of China’s new London headquarters at the 1 Lothbury building designed by Fletcher Priest Architects.
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NewsJohn Robertson Architects’ refurb of New Brook Buildings
John Robertson Architects has completed a refurbishment and remodelling of the 1950s New Brook Buildings in London’s Covent Garden. The project, for Henderson Central London Office Fund, creates 8,600sq m of grade A office space.
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NewsJean Nouvel’s One New Change
Retail units at the Jean Nouvel-designed One New Change building opposite St Paul’s Cathedral are set to open this month.
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NewsRemainder of BSF cut by 40%
The remainder schemes within the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme are being hit with a further 40% of cuts, affecting some 600 projects.
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NewsFoster's Vietnam debut is underway
Work on Foster & Partners’ first project in Vietnam - the VietinBank Business Centre - is now underway.
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NewsRegional design bodies to close
The Architecture Centre Network is applying for a series of European Union grants following the government’s decision this week to wind down Cabe, but admitted that some of the 22 regional bodies it helps fund will close.
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NewsArb fines architect £4,000 following 'aesthetic disaster'
The Arb’s professional conduct committee has fined Richard Lewis of Lewis Patten Chartered Architects in Hertford £4,000 following an “aesthetic disaster” on a project to build two detached houses in north-west London.
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NewsArchitecture PLB wins competition to build Winchester student halls
Architecture PLB has won a competition to design a £14 million student residence for the University of Winchester.
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NewsLast of the big spenders - Schmidt Hammer Lassen's City of Westminster College
Against news of higher education cuts the finishing touches are being made to a college building from another era – Schmidt Hammer Lassen’s City of Westminster College
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NewsEarle Architects reveals school plans for Aylesbury Estate
Earle Architects has designed an extension to a London school – complete with a playground on the roof
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Number of architects on the dole still rising
The number of architects on the dole rose again last month in a further sign that recent unemployment trends have reversed.
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NewsPascal & Watson unveils station concourse at the Shard
Renzo Piano Building Workshop working with Pascall & Watson has revealed its reworked station concourse at London Bridge, showing for the first time how the base of the Shard will integrate with the rail terminus
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NewsCouncil backs Make’s Stratford project
Make this week won approval for a major university building in the heart of East London’s Olympic zone, and also unveiled plans for a mixed scheme in Croydon with a 53-storey tower as its centrepiece
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NewsBoomerang flies into administration
A 52-storey skyscraper project in London designed by Ian Simpson Architects has been put into administration before a brick has even been laid