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NewsAllies & Morrison Lambeth scheme called in by Blears
Communities secretary Hazel Blears has called in Allies & Morrison’s Three Sisters project in Lambeth.
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NewsVan Egeraat’s Leipzig University is topped out
Erick Van Egeraat’s new building for the University of Leipzig in Germany has celebrated its topping out ceremony.
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NewsCouncil claims lack of refurb cash
Tower Hamlets Council has reiterated its opposition to the listing of Robin Hood Gardens, describing the Smithsons’ iconic estate as an “outdated and unpopular design” which has “deteriorated badly”.
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Richard Buckley dies at 45
Architect Richard Buckley, 45, a founding partner of Buckley Gray Yeoman, has drowned while on a family holiday. Buckley (pictured) set up the practice with his wife Fiammetta Gray in 1996.
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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.