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NewsMarks Barfield’s i360 kicks off
Work has finally started on Marks Barfields’ i360 tower at Brighton, East Sussex.
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Levitt Bernstein’s Shelter auction
Levitt Bernstein Architects is organising a “secret art sale” in aid of homelessness charity Shelter.
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Village flat numbers slashed again
The Olympic village has been downsized again, losing a further 600 flats as cost pressures on the project continue to mount.
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Low grants are little help to seaside towns
Almost half of the seaside towns given funding in the latest round of Cabe’s programme to regenerate coastal resorts have received £30,000 or less to spend on cultural projects.
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NewsDream design for leisure brings luxury to Italy’s Umbrian hills
Flacq has created a concept design for a new leisure and residential development in Umbria, north of Rome, which it hopes could do for the area what Peter Zumthor’s thermal baths did for Vals in Switzerland.
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Sleeperz hotel gets go-ahead
Clash Architects’ design for a £7.5 million hotel at Newcastle Central railway station has been awarded detailed planning permission.
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PII offender struck off by Arb
Arb has struck off Behzad Sharouz of Sharouz Associates in Crouch End, north London, after he was found guilty of unacceptable professional conduct.
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NewsUniversity’s latest building complete
Work has been completed on a £12 million building at Liverpool University by Shepherd Epstein Hunter.
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Derby infirmary plans unveiled
Leeds-based DLG Architects has unveiled plans to redevelop the site of the former Derbyshire Royal Infirmary.
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NewsPFI’s biggest school scheme opened
England’s largest education PFI project, a £130 million school scheme in Nottinghamshire by Aedas AHR architects, officially opened this week.
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Sustainability wins prizes
Entrants are sought for the 2009 Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy, with prizes of up to £30,000.
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OFT investigates agencies
Some of the UK’s biggest architectural recruitment agencies have been accused of price-fixing by the Office of Fair Trading.
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Foster wins commission to renovate New York’s Public Library
Foster & Partners has won the commission to re-design the New York Public Library in Manhattan as part of a $1 billion plan to transform the entire New York library system.
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NewsOslo scraps Koolhaas library design
Rem Koolhaas’s design for a new central library in Oslo, Norway, has been scrapped, after the city decided to re-locate the library to a site near the Snøhetta designed opera house in Bjørvika.
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RIBA joins forces with recruitment firm for new part II bursary
The RIBA has launched an annual £10,000 bursary scheme for promising but hard-up architecture students.
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NewsBlears tells homes quango to promote good design
Communities secretary Hazel Blears called on the new Homes & Communities Agency to champion good design last week, as the super-quango revealed new details of its structure.
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Boris proposes three-year plan for affordable homes
Mayor Boris Johnson has opened negotiations with London boroughs to agree a programme to deliver 50,000 affordable homes over the next three years.
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NewsWork starts on LCE Architects’ eco-friendly sports centre
Designs for a £4.3 million eco-friendly sports and community centre by LCE Architects have been unveiled by Westminster City Council.
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MAD's Superstar scheme
Archibabble has returned, not that the pretentious twaddle architects are capable of ever went away, but we’re re-starting our search for the worst of “wisdom” shared. Here’s our first particularly mad entry.