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£350m Blackfriars revamp begins
Network Rail has announced that work has begun on a £350 million project to regenerate Blackfriars Station in London
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Arb strikes off bankrupt architect
John Dowland of Godstone in Surrey has been struck off the Arb register for failing to pay a series of debts, and for failing to report his bankruptcy to the board.
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NewsConran set to convert hall to flats
Conran & Partners has received planning permission to convert and extend a grade II listed building by Royal Festival Hall architect Leslie Martin
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NewsRobinson attacks EH claims on liveability
Housing expert hits out at argument that estate ‘fails as a place to live’
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NewsHadid’s big in Singapore
Zaha Hadid Architects has designed the largest residential development in Singapore, the practice announced this week.
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Flint on the defence over eco-town plans
Housing minister Caroline Flint has insisted the government is making “significant progress” with its eco-towns plan, despite a report from an advisory panel which pointed out serious flaws in many of the shortlisted proposals.
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Watkins Gray to refit Barnardo’s
Architect Watkins Gray International has won a competition to refurbish the new 187sq m office space for children’s charity Barnardo’s in the London Borough of Southwark.
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RIBA looking for floodproof home
RIBA and insurer Norwich Union have launched a joint competition to design a floodproof home.
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NZ masterplan goes to Farrells
Farrells has beaten competition from Foster & Partners, Frank Gehry, SOM and Gensler to masterplan a mixed-use redevelopment scheme in Auckland, New Zealand.
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NewsCornish keeps energy low in brownfield office plan
Cornish Architects is set to transform a brownfield site in Denham, South Buckinghamshire, into low-energy office space.
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Tom Russell in eco-village coup
Tom Russell Architects has won a RIBA competition to turn Lawrenny in Pembrokeshire into an eco-village
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NewsTheatre foyer given the go-ahead
CZWG’s East Terrace Foyer, part of its Bournemouth pavilion and gardens project, has been granted planning permission
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NewsBlears stops KPF’s Smithfield General Market redevelopment
Communities secretary Hazel Blears has vetoed plans by Kohn Pederson Fox to demolish a set of Victorian red brick buildings at the western edge of the historic Smithfield meat market in Farringdon, central London.
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NewsTowering pillars to mark 7/7 victims
Architect Carmody Groarke has revealed its designs for a permanent memorial to the victims of London’s 7/7 bombings.
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NewsHazle McCormack Young brings music to Canterbury
Kent-based practice Hazle McCormack Young has unveiled its £8 million music centre for Canterbury Christ Church University
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NewsFletcher Priest Stratford mall enters planning process
Designs for a 140,905sq m shopping centre to be sited between the international and regional train stations near the Olympic Village in Stratford, east London, have been submitted for planning approval.
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Class of 2008: The Winners
From exotic spots such as Istanbul and Rome to more domestic locations such as Sheffield and Whitstable, the ambitions of BDs five graduating diploma student award winners were scattered far and wide this year. Ellis Woodman, BDs buildings editor, looks at what marked them out
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How Buildings Learn
Do you remember the 1997 BBC TV series entitled How Buildings Learn? Well if you missed it the first time round, or haven't seen it, the six-part series written and presented by Stewart Brand, focuses on what happens when a building is built and the users take over, and begin ...