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NewsRIBA dismay at planning reforms
Plans to streamline the planning process to help small firms weather the recession have been attacked for being “too little, too late”
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NewsCoventry’s masterplan for £1bn city centre redevelopment
US architectural practice Jerde’s scheme includes controversial egg-shaped building, although council insists this is provisional
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NewsBroad-minded approach
Aedas has designed one of the first large buildings to be presented at Mipim, a £125 million mixed-use tower for Birmingham
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RIBA angry over tax-cut response
A row has erupted between the RIBA and the Treasury over whether it should slash VAT on refurbishment projects in an attempt to stimulate the struggling construction industry
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NewsCurtain up on AHMM’s revamp
AHMM has been selected as the winner of a design competition to refurbish Liverpool’s Royal Court Theatre
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NewsRussian to the slopes
Wilkinson Eyre unveiled a 300,000sq m ski jump and winter sports complex for the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod at Mipim on Wednesday
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Offices achieve excellent Breeam
Scott Brownrigg’s flagship office development on the Cardiff waterfront, 3 Assembly Square, has achieved a Breeam “excellent” rating six months before completion
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Pozzoni designs centre for elderly
Architectural practice Pozzoni has won planning permission for a £20 million centre to provide housing and services for elderly people in Ormskirk
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ODA seeking pool lift solutions
The Olympic Delivery Authority has launched an open competition to design a swimming pool lift for the two 50m pools in Zaha Hadid’s Aquatics Centre, which will improve access for disabled swimmers
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NewsHepworth Gallery topped out
David Chipperfield Architects’ Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, has been topped out
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NewsPitt favoured as new body’s chair
Housing minster Margaret Beckett has named Michael Pitt the preferred choice for chairman of the newly created Infrastructure Planning Commission, which will be based in Bristol
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NewsCome on Eileen
Allies & Morrison’s 43-storey residential tower Eileen House, in Elephant & Castle, south London, has been submitted for planning
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NewsLibrary is first chapter in city PFI
Developer Kajima has handed over the keys of the Ryder Architecture-designed £24 million Newcastle City Library to Newcastle Libraries in a ceremony attended by poet laureate Andrew Motion
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LDA unveils new urban agenda
The London Development Agency announced its new citywide urban agenda at Mipim on Wednesday
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NewsRogers unveils plans for Greater Paris (picture gallery)
Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners has unveiled its proposal to transform Paris by reconnecting the centre with outlying districts to create a Greater Paris in the mould of Greater London.
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NewsFollett won't list Lloyd's building
Architecture minister Barbara Follett has refused to list Richard Rogers’ seminal Lloyd’s of London building.