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NewsFeng shui design for K2 hotel
Many hotels around the world offer spectacular mountain views, but few can rival those offered by Colman Architects’ newest project, a five-star hotel at the base of K2, the world’s second highest mountain.
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Fun palaces
The sport and leisure sector is where architecture can chill out. Playful ideas, colourful graphics and innovative surfaces are the order of the day in this month's selection of projects
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NewsAlsop’s designs for Putney towers submitted for planning
Plans for two Will Alsop-designed towers on a site opposite East Putney Underground Station in south-west London have been submitted to Wandsworth Council.
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Government announces standards for eco-town buildings and green space
The government has set out standards for eco-towns that would require all buildings in an eco-town to be zero carbon and for 40% of land within the town to be designated as green space.
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Capita Architecture reports bumper first-half results
Capita Symonds, parent company of Capita Architecture, has reported a strong set of mid-year results, despite the impact of the credit crunch.
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MPs: Planning system has chronic problems
The Communities & Local Government Committee has criticised “chronic problems” in the planning system, in a report issued on Thursday.
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NewsBootleg Lilos win Architecture Rocks (video)
The Bootleg Lilos triumphed at the London Festival of Architecture closing party to win the battle of the bands.
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NewsKuwait unveils plans for massive Silk City development
The Kuwaiti government has announced it is to use profits from the rise in oil prices to invest £66 billion in Silk City, a massive new metropolis in the Gulf designed by Eric R Kulne Associates.
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NewsCourt tells Arb to stay action against Ian Salisbury
The Architects’ Registration Board was on Wednesday ordered by the High Court to stay disciplinary proceedings against former board member Ian Salisbury (pictured) for failing to provide evidence that he had professional indemnity insurance.
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NewsRitchie blasts 'nimbyism' over axed Avon bridge
Ian Ritchie has hit back at a decision to scrap his design for a “world class” bridge in Stratford-upon-Avon, accusing the organisations responsible of bowing to nimbyism.
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Crossrail wins final parliamentary approval
Parliament has given the go-ahead to Crossrail, which received royal assent on the last day before the summer recess.
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Crunch scales down Jewish centre plans
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands has been forced to scale back its designs for a flagship home for London’s Jewish Community Centre amid fundraising fears.
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Atkins sheds 51 jobs as it shifts focus to larger schemes
Atkins has shed 51 jobs as part of a strategy to refocus the company’s design teams on larger national projects.
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AHMM's Westminster Academy is bookies’ favourite to win Stirling Prize
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris’s Westminster Academy the 3/1 favourite to win this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize, according to bookmaker William Hill.
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Birmingham leader begs Hodge not to list library
Birmingham City Council leader Mike Whitby has pleaded with architecture minister Margaret Hodge to grant the city’s Central Library immunity from listing in an extraordinary 4,500-word letter.
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Cabe: Hamiltons' Birmingham tower should be refused planning
Cabe has recommended that Hamiltons’ proposed tower scheme in Birmingham, to replace Madin’s unlisted NatWest Tower, be refused planning.
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Acanthus Ferguson Mann geothermal project gets under way in Bristol
Work has begun on a scheme in Bristol designed by local practice Acanthus Ferguson Mann to create one of the country’s largest residential geothermal heating installations.
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New regional strategy for North-east sets targets for homes and economic development
Communities minister Baroness Andrews this week unveiled the government’s new regional plan for the North-east of England.
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Purcell Miller Tritton to open Edinburgh office after ‘bumper’ two years
Specialist heritage architect Purcell Miller Tritton is expanding into Scotland, the firm has revealed, by opening an Edinburgh office following two bumper years of growth.
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RIBA and Africa Union of Architects sign memorandum on education services and CPD
The RIBA has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Africa Union of Architects to boost educational services.