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  • MCM’s Moscow business park.
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    MCM is London’s greenest firm

    2008-05-23T00:00:00Z

    MCM Architecture has topped a poll of the best green companies in London in the inaugural Sunday Times Green List.

  • A century’s worth of extensions has created a complicated layout which the refurbishment has been designed to liberate.
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    Victorian museums refurb rest

    2008-05-23T00:00:00Z

    Construction has started on Allies & Morrison’s £10 million refurbishment and extension of the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery in Exeter.

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    Cartwright Pickard mill homes sold

    2008-05-23T00:00:00Z

    Ledgard Mill, Cartwright Pickard Architects’ award-winning housing project with developer Binks Vertical at Mirfield, West Yorkshire, has been completed and fully sold.

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    Aedas-designed academy opened

    2008-05-23T00:00:00Z

    The Aedas-designed Petchey Academy in Hackney, east London, was officially opened by Ed Balls, the children, schools & families secretary, last week.

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    Aukett submits Norwich plan

    2008-05-23T00:00:00Z

    Aukett Fitzroy Robinson has submitted a detailed planning application for two new office buildings in Norwich city centre.

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    City’s status could survive tower

    2008-05-23T00:00:00Z

    Unesco world heritage chief Francesco Bandarin this week signalled that St Petersburg could retain its heritage status even if RMJM’s controversial Gazprom tower goes ahead.

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    Cutty Sark faces £3.7m shortfall

    2008-05-23T00:00:00Z

    The chief executive of the Cutty Sark Trust, the organisation behind Youmeheshe’s £25 million restoration of the historic tea clipper in Greenwich, has warned that without a further £3.7 million, funds will run out in September.

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    Southampton model open to public

    2008-05-23T00:00:00Z

    Southampton has become the first city outside London to exhibit a scale model of its built environment to the public.

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    You can nominate a building at risk

    2008-05-23T00:00:00Z

    The Victorian Society has launched this year’s search for the 10 most endangered Victorian or Edwardian buildings in England and Wales.

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    St Helens go-ahead snubs Cabe

    2008-05-23T00:00:00Z

    BDP’s £25 million scheme for a new stadium for St Helens Rugby League Club has won planning permission, despite being slammed by Cabe’s design review panel last year.

  • Pitshanger: Soane’s “dream”.
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    Soane’s Pitshanger to have £8.2m makeover

    2008-05-23T00:00:00Z

    Pitshanger Manor, the grade I listed house designed by John Soane, is to be restored as part of a £8.2 million project led by Ealing Council.

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    Tesco adds local colour

    2008-05-23T00:00:00Z

    Cabe has given its backing to a controversial new Tesco store designed by Lyons, Sleeman & Hoare for Hadleigh in Suffolk.

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    Web to help design out construction wastage

    2008-05-23T00:00:00Z

    Architects must play a key role in reducing waste in the construction industry, according to a government-funded waste reduction and recycling programme.

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    Architect of the Year – could it be you?

    2008-05-23T00:00:00Z

    Architects are this week invited to submit entries to BD’s Architect of the Year Awards 2008, the only industry awards scheme that recognises the practices setting standards for others to follow rather than individual buildings.

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    View from the terrace

    2008-05-23T00:00:00Z

    Planning permission has been awarded for a £1.5 million mixed-use development in the London Borough of Islington by Platform 5 Architects.

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    Sheffield’s Sorby House opens

    2008-05-23T00:00:00Z

    Bond Bryan Architects is celebrating the opening of Sorby House in Sheffield, a centrepiece project for the 10-year regeneration of the Burngreave area.

  • Inigo Jones’ designs inspired the Collector Earl’s Garden.
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    Arundel pays homage to Jones

    2008-05-23T00:00:00Z

    The Collector Earl’s Garden, a new garden at Arundel Castle in Sussex designed by Isabel and Julian Bannerman and Russell Taylor Architects, was opened by the Prince of Wales last week.

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    Get into palaces’ secret places

    2008-05-23T00:00:00Z

    Historic Royal Palaces is auctioning a range of experiences at its major attractions on eBay to raise cash for conservation work.

  • The scheme is just 2.8m high.
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    Wait pays off for new-build scheme

    2008-05-23T00:00:00Z

    After four years of trying, David Nossiter Architects has won planning consent for a new-build timber and glass house on a prominent corner of Honor Oak conservation area in south-east London.

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    This weeks ups and downs

    2008-05-23T00:00:00Z

    Hot and not