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  • A scheme to rationalise the Midlands Arts Centre is on site only a month after receiving planning permission.
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    Midlands centre proves the art of a quick move onto site

    2008-06-06T00:00:00Z

    The new Midland Arts Centre is now on site — only a month after it received planning permission from Birmingham City Council.

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    Living in the wood pile

    2008-06-06T00:00:00Z

    Panter Hudspith Architects has been awarded planning permission by Southwark Council for its Mulberry Park mixed-use scheme at Canada Water.

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    Expo competition courts young firms

    2008-06-06T00:00:00Z

    Young, up-and-coming architects are being called on to design the first phase of the 65ha Scotswood Expo in Newcastle, in an RIBA-run competition.

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    Arb threatens ‘very ill’ retired architect

    2008-06-06T00:00:00Z

    Arb has threatened to take legal action against an elderly retired architect because his architectural practice is illegally listed on several web directories.

  • Till: keen on local links.
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    Till to quit Sheffield for Westminster dean role

    2008-06-06T00:00:00Z

    Jeremy Till is to become dean at the University of Westminster’s school of architecture and the built environment.

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    EH to set up list of sites in danger

    2008-06-06T00:00:00Z

    English Heritage is to create the first comprehensive listing of heritage sites in England deemed to be at risk of damage or decay.

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    Four compete for Welsh scheme

    2008-06-06T00:00:00Z

    Ash Sakula Architects, Davis Sutton Architecture, Letts Wheeler Architecture & Design, and Tom Russell Architects have been shortlisted in an RIBA/Royal Society of Architects in Wales competition for a sustainable housing development in Pembrokeshire.

  • Under study: London City Airport.
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    YRM wins City air extension study

    2008-06-06T00:00:00Z

    YRM Architects is to carry out a six-month design study for a proposed extension to London City Airport.

  • A courtyard will give a new heart to Orpington College campus.
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    Redelopment for Orpington College

    2008-06-06T00:00:00Z

    KSS Design Group has unveiled its designs for a £12 million redevelopment of Orpington College.

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    Bold face on the waterfront

    2008-06-06T00:00:00Z

    Gordon Murray & Alan Dunlop Architects has released new images of its Bonnington Hotel scheme, an £18 million riverside development in the heart of Glasgow for client Clydeview.

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    Porphyrios wins OK for Islington

    2008-06-06T00:00:00Z

    Architects Porphyrios Associates has received planning permission for a mixed-use scheme in Islington, north London.

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    Coe sets out 179 training venues

    2008-06-06T00:00:00Z

    The London 2012 Organising Committee (Locog) has revealed the 179 sporting venues across the country which will feature in the pre-games training camp guide for paralympic sports.

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    This week's ups and downs

    2008-06-06T00:00:00Z

    Hot and Not

  • Casa Kike, Costa Rica, by Gianni Botsford Architects
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    Three shortlisted for RIBA's Lubetkin Prize

    2008-06-05T09:36:00Z

    Three architects have been shortlisted for RIBA’s Lubetkin prize for the most outstanding work of architecture outside the UK and the European Union by an RIBA member.

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    Competition launched to design public square for King's Cross station

    2008-06-05T17:00:00Z

    Camden Council and Network Rail have launched an RIBA competition to design a new public square at King’s Cross in central London.

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    Dynamic Architecture creates rotating tower for Dubai

    2008-06-05T15:20:00Z

    Italian-Israeli architect David Fisher has unveiled plans for the latest eye-popping skyscraper in Dubai – a 68-storey, rotating tower.

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    London mayor set to ditch Rogers as adviser

    2008-06-04T15:55:00Z

    London mayor Boris Johnson has indicated that Labour peer Richard Rogers is unlikely to continue as the city’s adviser on architecture and urbanism under his administration.Speaking at City Hall on Wednesday, Johnson said: “I’ll certainly be maintaining the role of an adviser on architecture or urbanism, but you’ll have to ...

  • Walter Chefitz’s jelly design
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    Architects get ready to wobble

    2008-06-04T11:19:00Z

    Architects Will Alsop, Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners and Foster & Partners lead the shortlist for the 2008 Architectural Jelly Design Competition – part of the 2008 London Festival of Architecture.

  • Looking over the lake to one of the yoo homes
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    Starck-designed second homes win planning permission

    2008-06-04T10:39:00Z

    Planning permission has been granted for the expansion of a prestigious second-home development by yoo, Philippe Starck’s housing venture with John Hitchcox, co-founder of Manhattan Loft Corporation.

  • Petition in support of the Piano scheme
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    Le Corbusier's Ronchamp chapel stirs passions online

    2008-06-03T09:28:00Z

    An online war is pitting some of the biggest names in world architecture against each other in a bid to influence the French Minister of Culture over the future of Le Corbusier’s world famous Ronchamp chapel.