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NewsFoster set to be expelled from House of Lords
Norman Foster is set to be expelled from the House of Lords under new reforms drawn up by justice secretary Jack Straw.
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NewsBroadway Malyan wins first major Canadian project
Broadway Malyan is to masterplan the regeneration of an inner city area of Calgary, Alberta.
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Foster, Adjaye lead top names in race to design Washington’s new museum of black history
Norman Foster, David Adjaye, Antoine Predock, Moshe Safdie and IM Pei are among a stellar crop of architects competing to design America’s new museum of black history in Washington DC.
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NewsStewart McColl Bounces Back
Former boss of SMC group sets up new practice, vowing once again to buy up other firms
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NewsBSF funding hit as private sector cash dries up
Architects have reacted with alarm after the agency delivering the £45 billion Building Schools for the Future programme admitted worries over its dependence on private finance.
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NewsLubetkin’s grade I listed Finsbury Health Centre to be sold off to private sector
Berthold Lubetkin’s grade I listed Finsbury Health Centre in Clerkenwell, north London, is set to be sold into private hands after NHS officials this morning rejected a last-ditch effort by Architects for Health to preserve the building’s 70-year association with public healthcare.
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NewsChris Smith joins Lubetkin centre fight
Former culture secretary Chris Smith this week backed architects and local activists in a last-ditch effort to save Berthold Lubetkin’s pioneering Finsbury Health Centre from being sold to the private sector.
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Studio Egret West bid wins science park
Studio Egret West has beaten Make, BDP and Associated Architects to oversee the redevelopment of Pebble Mill, the historic former Midlands base of the BBC.
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NewsFoster’s denies Red October is shelved
Foster & Partners has played down reports that the Red October island project in Moscow, which also involves Jean Nouvel and six other firms, has been shelved.
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Judicial review backs government
Objectors to one of the proposed eco-towns have failed in their bid to get the government’s consultation declared unlawful.
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Allies & Morrison offices approved
Allies & Morrison’s £100 million office scheme in King’s Cross has been approved for planning by the London Borough of Camden.
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Docklands designer Price dies
David Price, architect, urban designer and former partner of Gordon Cullen, has died at the age of 54.
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New look News Junkie and competitions directory launched
Bdonline has launched two new web services this week — an online directory of architecture competitions and a new-look News Junkie blog bringing you a selection of the best architecture stories elsewhere on the web.
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NewsErick van Egeraat files for insolvency
International success story succumbs to credit crunch and Russian market
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NewsDLA Architecture’s mixed-use Eltham scheme is far from plain
DLA Architecture has won planning permission on appeal for The Grove, this seven-storey, mixed-use scheme in Eltham, south-east London, following a 20-month wrangle with Greenwich Council.
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NewsFletcher Priest Architects’ Watermark Place nears completion
Work is nearing completion on Fletcher Priest Architects’ Watermark Place, its 50,000sq m office and retail scheme on the north bank of the Thames close to St Paul’s Cathedral in central London.
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NewsSecurity minister Adam West urges architects to ‘design out’ terrorism
Security minister Alan West has called on architects and planners to join the government in its fight against terrorism.