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NewsFeng shui makeover for Chinatown
The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment has proposed “healing” parts of London’s Chinatown using ancient Chinese traditions of feng shui.
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Blackfriars towers pair offer their view at inquiry
Ian Simpson and Wilkinson Eyre’s Jim Eyre have offered a robust defence of their neighbouring tower projects on London’s South Bank, in the first week of a joint public inquiry into the schemes.
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NewsCroydon Council backs Foster Gateway
Croydon Council now supports Foster & Partners’ £600 million Croydon Gateway scheme after cutting ties with the developer behind the rival Michael Aukett Architects-designed scheme.
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Go ahead for Norwich campus
Aukett Fitzroy Robinson has won planning consent for its £120 million masterplan to redevelop City College in Norwich.
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NewsAnger as visitor centre list chosen in six hours
RIBA and RIAS join architects calling on National Trust to explain Hadrian’s Wall decision
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Hiring foreign architects set to become harder
...as RIBA survey reveals growing globalisation of large practices
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NewsListing threat to Chelsea Barracks development
English Heritage has dealt a new blow to Rogers Stirk Harbour’s controversial Chelsea Barracks scheme by recommending a Victorian chapel on the site be listed at grade II.
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NewsFirst steps in Venice
Scotland’s first Venice Biennale pavilion, by Gareth Hoskins, is a 7m-high timber structure inspired by public steps.
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NewsRykwert building to become school
The sole surviving UK building designed by architect and academic Joseph Rykwert is to be converted into a special needs school by Foster & Partners.
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NewsWalker church listed
A modernist church designed by Derek Walker — the former chief architect of Milton Keynes — has become the first 20th century building to be listed this year.
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NewsCoventry job for Arup
Arup Associates’ design for a £30 million engineering and computing building has beaten designs by Foster & Partners, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and Wilkinson Eyre in a contest by client Coventry University.
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NewsKensington Taylor’s community hub
Architect Kensington Taylor has won planning consent for this £5.7million community library and hub project in Paignton, south Devon.
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Canterbury gets £500,000 repair
The Save Canterbury Cathedral Appeal has announced a 20-week, £500,000 project to repair the lead roof on the historic building’s south-east transept.
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Keppie submits brownfield plan
Keppie Design has submitted a masterplan for a 687ha site in North Ayrshire. The £500 million development of Ardeer Peninsula on the Ayrshire coastline, formerly the world’s largest explosives plant, will be Scotland’s largest ever brownfield project.
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NewsArt takes an ad break
Plans for a new piece of public art funded through advertising revenue have been unveiled in the West Midlands.
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International entrants sought
Next year’s US and European-run International Architecture Awards are open for submissions.
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NewsCPMG chosen for sports building
CPMG Architects has been appointed to design the University of Teesside’s £9.9 million sport and health sciences building.
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Office wins top energy rating
Cooper Cromar’s 1,828sq m Solais House has been awarded an energy performance certificate A.