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Warehouses scheme approved
Liverpool City Council has granted planning permission for a scheme by Thinking Space to turn a series of grade II and grade II* listed tobacco warehouses in Stanley Dock into a mixed-use development with 918 apartments, 11,000sq m of office space and 2,800 sq m of exhibition space.
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NewsElephants pack their trunks
Foster & Partners’ new elephant house at Copenhagen Zoo was opened by the Danish Prince Consort on Tuesday.
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River Don project in for planning
Hopkins Architects has submitted a new sustainable business and residential scheme for Sheffield’s River Don Valley for outline planning.
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NewsIslington academy goes green
Swanke Hayden Connell Architects is to design a new academy and a special needs school for the London Borough of Islington.
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Calling all inspired photographers
Zumtobel is running its quirky Photographic Competition for the 12th year
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NewsODA in row over Aquatics Centre legacy provision
A row has broken out between the Olympic Delivery Authority and Newham Council over leisure water facilities as part of the legacy provisions associated with Zaha Hadid’s Aquatics Centre.
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NewsPoor designs kill off bus shelter contest
A competition to redesign London’s 12,000 bus shelters has been scrapped because the shortlisted schemes by firms including Conran & Partners, Ian Ritchie Architects and Arups were not considered good enough.
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Unhappy planners move to private sector
The Royal Town Planning Institute has slammed the “target culture” of local authority planning departments, saying it is driving employees to the private sector in search of job satisfaction.
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NewsStreet life on a new plane
Yaya winner Carmody Groarke has designed a temporary 160m-long skywalk to launch the Bloomsbury Hub of the London Festival of Architecture.
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Edaw to design waterside site
Chesterfield Borough Council has appointed Edaw to masterplan Chesterfield Waterside, a 16ha brownfield site adjacent to the town centre.
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NewsTropical medicine facility completed
Sheppard Robson’s Centre for Tropical & Infectious Diseases for the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has been completed.
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Islington hotel scheme approved
EPR Architects has won planning for a new hotel in Islington, north London, on one of the last sites in the capital to be redeveloped after being bombed in the second world war.
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NewsBetter Public Building shortlist unveiled
Denton Corker Marshall’s Civil Justice Centre in Manchester, Allies & Morrison’s Festival Hall revamp and MUMA’s Newlyn Art Gallery in Cornwall are among the 21 buildings shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Better Public Building Award, the annual gong that rewards design-led regeneration projects.Credit: Peter Cook Royal Festival Hall, LondonOther firms ...
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NewsSchools strike back at call to change curriculum
Sustainability shouldn’t be the only challenge for architecture schools, say educators
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NewsWelcome back to Line of Site
It is a great pleasure to again be inviting architects and designers from around the world to participate in this unique competition.
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NewsJudging the first brief: The Northern Lights Conservatory
Judging the first round of Line of Site 2008 proved to be easily as tough as 2007 for the two judges, Neven Sidor and Dirk Krolikowski
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NewsArchitects to stage urban intervention at LFA 2008
Parking bays and design aren’t two words which normally trip off the tongue together, but a competition run by Ramboll Whitbybird is using design to draw attention to just how much space is given up to cars in the city.
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NewsByrne transforms building into sound installation
Artist David Byrne has transformed the 9,000 sq ft interior of the Battery Maritime Building in Lower Manhattan into a sound sculpture.