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NewsHeritage bill rethink after costs disputed
The cost of implementing the heritage protection bill is likely to be far more than estimated, the government has admitted.
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NewsWalsall packs a punch
A £2 million youth centre and boxing club in the West Midlands by Sjölander da Cruz Architects has been granted planning permission.
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NHS agency wins design award
The NHS’s National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) has received an award for its use of design in improving patient safety.
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Yorkshire events pavilion shortlist
RIBA Yorkshire and regional development agency Yorkshire Forward have revealed their shortlist for a £650,000 mobile pavilion.
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NewsDCLG adds three new advisers
The Department for Communities & Local Government has appointed three members to its Building Regulations Advisory Committee.
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Architecture of the Year Awards 2008
As this years awards demonstrate, the state of British architecture is healthy. The 16 categories were all hotly contested, the judges praised the fresh approach of the younger practices, while the established firms showed a confidence and consistency that is hugely impressive.
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NewsEH’s Heritage Counts report calls for ‘recycling’ of older buildings to cut CO2 emissions
English Heritage today called on the government to recycle and adapt older buildings to help meet carbon reduction targets.
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Eisenhower Memorial shortlist announced
Frank Gehry and Moshe Safdie are among the seven architects who have made the shortlist for the competition to design the £60 million National Eisenhower Memorial in Washington DC.
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NewsAustralia’s Woodhead gets fired up for Pinnacles Interpretive Centre ritual
In a nod to traditional aboriginal ceremony, leading Australian architectural and design consultancy Woodhead has set fire to its Pinnacles Interpretive Centre in Western Australia.
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Will Alsop joins ideas 'dream team' for New York's Coney Island
New York’s Municipal Art Society (MAS) has put together a “dream team” of designers and planners to generate ideas for the redevelopment of Coney Island.
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NewsDesign Museum targets Commonwealth Institute building for new home
The Design Museum’s epic search for a larger new home is finally set to end with a new base at Kensington’s former Commonwealth Institute building.
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Blears defies Islington council to approve Squires’ City Road Estate
Communities secretary Hazel Blears has overruled a planning inspector to grant permission for a 39-storey triangular residential tower, designed by Squire & Partners, at the junction of City Road and Old Street in London.
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NewsGraeme Massie to design Scottish pavilion for 2009 Kolkata book fair
Graeme Massie Architects has won the competition to design the Scottish pavilion at the Kolkata book fair in India on January 28-February 2009, when the book fair will have a Scottish theme overall.
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NewsKPF Victoria scheme is unpleasant, says Cabe
Cabe has warned that Kohn Pederson Fox’s (KPF) masterplan for Victoria in central London will result in “spaces that are unpleasant to live and work in”.
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NewsCroydon scheme wins planning
Aros Architects has won planning permission for this £8 million office building in east Croydon, part of the borough’s Vision 2020 regeneration programme.
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Brent civic centre shortlist announced
Make, Sheppard Robson, EPR Architects, Hopkins Architects, John McAslan & Partners, BDP and TP Bennett have all been shortlisted for a landmark civic centre for Brent Council in north-west London, opposite Wembley Stadium.
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Welsh construction giant David McLean goes into administration
One of Wales’s biggest developers, David McLean Holdings, plus its subsidiaries, has gone into administration. Administrator Deloitte said that while the firm’s contracting division would close, its house-building division would be put up for sale.
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Montreal announces £16.5m planetarium competition
A two-stage competition for a C$33 million (£16.5 million) planetarium for Montreal, Canada, is to be held. The new building will replace the existing 1966 structure.
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Paul Andreu to design new arts quarter for Montreal
Paris-based architect Paul Andreu has been appointed for part of Montreal’s controversial Quartier des Spectacles (Entertainment Quarter).