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NewsCommunities secretary outlines how planning process will aid free schools
Communities secretary Eric Pickles has revealed further details on the government’s plans to make the planning process friendlier to proposals to build free schools.
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NewsEric Parry revised West End scheme goes to planners
Eric Parry Architects’ redevelopment of a prime swathe of the West End will this week face the planners for the second time.
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NewsD5 creates new bus station for Chatham
Work on D5 Architects’ designs for a new £5 million bus station in Chatham, Kent, is due to be completed next March.
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NewsGBH starts on Get Carter car park
Demolition work has begun on Owen Luder’s Trinity Centre car park in Gateshead, which became a Brutalist icon after appearing in the 1971 film Get Carter.
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NewsShapps unveils boost for zero carbon targets
The housing minister has today given the coalition’s support to ensure all new homes built from 2016 are zero carbon.
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NewsWalter Scott home picks up £5m lottery funding for visitor centre
The Heritage Lottery Fund has awarded nearly £5 million to the Scottish home of poet and novelist Walter Scott, to build a visitor centre and carry out restoration work.
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NewsWorld’s largest virtual computer-generated skyscraper in Brazil
Brazilian practice Königsberger Vannucchi Architects has entered the record books with the world’s biggest augmented reality marker for its latest skyscraper.
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NewsApproval for Hawkins Brown sport hub in Newham
Hawkins Brown has been granted planning permission for a new sports hub in an east London park.Newham Council approved the two-storey building in Plashet Park, despite the park’s designation as a protected green space and site of nature conservation importance. The council praised the building’s “high standard” design.The new building ...
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NewsBrady to become new RIBA president
Angela Brady has been elected as the next president of the RIBA.
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NewsCLG cuts Cabe funding by £1.4 million
Cabe has been told it will be getting £1.4 million less in funding from the Communities & Local Government department this year.
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NewsEH explains decision not to list Hoe Centre
English Heritage has said it was against listing Plymouth’s 1951 Hoe Centre because it did not meet the standards required.
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NewsChristian Candy apologises to Qataris
Prince of Wales also gets apology following Chelsea Barracks dispute.
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NewsArchitecture billings fail to recover in US
The Architecture Billings Index has failed to bounce back from a sharp fall in May as demand for architectural services in the US continues to decline.
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NewsAdjaye's first offices near completion
David Adjaye’s first stand-alone office development in the UK is nearing completion.
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NewsKohn Pedersen Fox’s 60 Holborn Viaduct
Work to market Kohn Pedersen Fox’s 60 Holborn Viaduct has resumed more than two years after planning consent was granted.
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NewsDCMS plans superquango by merging Cabe and EH
Plans to merge Cabe and English Heritage into a superquango are being drawn up by the government under radical cost-cutting measures.
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NewsGovernment to wind up Sea Change programme
The coalition government is scrapping the Sea Change initiative introduced three years ago by the previous Labour regime to revamp rundown seaside resorts.
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NewsFobert’s Kettle’s Yard scheme set for planning
Jamie Fobert Architects’ long-awaited £3.5 million redevelopment of a Cambridge modern art gallery will go for planning in September, six years after the firm won a high-profile competition to extend the venue.
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News‘Risky’ Miralles replaced in Leeds
Chapman Taylor’s revised design for a £350 million Leeds shopping centre has been attacked by the architects the firm replaced.
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NewsJestico & Whiles redesigns Swiss clock following protests
Jestico & Whiles has radically redrawn a controversial new landmark for London’s Leicester Square after Atkins’ original proposal was withdrawn following criticism from heritage groups and the police.