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    Arup Design wins Co-op masterplan

    2008-03-20T00:00:00Z

    Arup Design has beaten KPF, BDP and Heneghan Peng to lead a team masterplanning a prestigious 8ha site in Manchester city centre in a competition organised by the Co-operative group.

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    PRP finishes first Masdar building

    2008-03-20T00:00:00Z

    PRP has delivered the first building for Masdar in Abu Dhabi, planned by Foster & Partners.

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    Planning reversed on Parry project

    2008-03-20T00:00:00Z

    Eric Parry Architects has lost an office scheme in central London’s St James’s Square after the site was sold to a firm which is set to turn the existing building into luxury flats.

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    Urban Splash’s international idea

    2008-03-20T00:00:00Z

    Urban Splash has launched an international competition for ideas for Lex, phase two of its mixed-use Walsall Waterfront development.

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    Green homes to get expert support

    2008-03-20T00:00:00Z

    Five proposed housing schemes are to get the chance to be the greenest development in south-west England after winning a low-carbon housing competition.

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    Industry doubts over Budget’s CO2 aims

    2008-03-20T00:00:00Z

    Industry bodies have cast doubt on measures to curb carbon emissions contained within chancellor of the exchequer Alistair Darling’s first budget announcement.

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    Twin set in Kingston

    2008-03-20T00:00:00Z

    Terry Pawson Architects has won planning for a pair of private houses in Kingston upon Thames.

  • The patron of the Civic Trust slated the Ivor Crewe buildling.
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    Prince Charles’s ‘dustbin’ wins award

    2008-03-20T00:00:00Z

    A university lecture hall likened by Prince Charles to a “dustbin” has won an architectural gong from one of his charities.

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    This week

    2008-03-20T00:00:00Z

    This week’s ups and downs

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    EH acts to save historic buildings in Liverpool

    2008-03-20T00:00:00Z

    NEWS: EH lists two buildings in Liverpool's world heritage site as concern grows over pace of development COMMENT: Must we twist Liverpool's arm?

  • Erick van Egeraat
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    Libeskind’s China boycott a ‘stunt’, says van Egeraat

    2008-03-19T00:00:00Z

    Daniel Libeskind’s boycott of work in China on ethical grounds has been slammed as a “publicity stunt” by leading Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat.

  • Rotherham’s Yes leisure centre will be “mind-blowing”
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    CZWG looks to the future with eight new partners

    2008-03-19T00:00:00Z

    CZWG has revealed a massive expansion as its founders put in place their succession strategy.

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    Koolhaas wins competition to restore Commonwealth Institute

    2008-03-18T10:32:00Z

    Rem Koolhaas and Reinier de Graaf of Dutch firm OMA are set to restore London’s iconic Commonwealth Institute building in Kensington, having beaten competition from architects including Rafael Viñoly, Eric Parry and Caruso St John.

  • Artists’ impression of the Olympic park in legacy mode.
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    Olympic site will become London’s largest park for a century

    2008-03-17T14:55:00Z

    The Olympic Delivery Authority has unveiled plans to convert London’s Olympic site into the largest new urban park in London since the Victorian era, following the end of the 2012 games.The plans, designed by LDA Design and US-based landscape designer George Hargreaves, will also promote more sustainable and active lifestyles ...

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    Blears calls in Simpson’s 51-storey Beetham Tower

    2008-03-14T17:20:00Z

    Hazel Blears has called in Ian Simpson’s Beetham Tower, planned for a prominent site on London’s South Bank. In a call-in letter sent to Southwark council on Monday (March 10), the communities secretary questioned whether the proposed location of the One Blackfriars Road tower, close to the banks of the ...

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    UK architects seek to modernise Paris

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    British-based architects including Zaha Hadid, Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners, Michel Mossessian and Think Place are competing to lead one of 10 multi- disciplinary teams tasked with creating a future vision for Paris.

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    Plasma scoops Next Generation award

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    East London-based practice wins prestigious BD-sponsored title

  • St Peter's seminary, Cardross, Scotland
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    Urban Splash hires Hoskins for Cardross regeneration

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Developer Urban Splash has hired Gareth Hoskins Architects to develop regeneration ideas for one of Scotland’s most important modernist buildings, St Peter’s Seminary in Cardross.

  • HOK Sport's design for Olympique Lyonnais's new 60,000-seat stadium
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    HOK Sport's champion design for Lyon FC

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    HOK Sport unveiled its designs for Olympique Lyonnais’s new 60,000-seat stadium at the Mipim property fair in Cannes this week.

  • Architect's design for Birnbeck Island and Weston-super-Mare pier
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    Island plan goes back to nature

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Levitate Architecture & Design Studio has beaten AOC, Flacq and Richards Partington Architects in a joint Urban Splash/RIBA competition for Birnbeck Island and the grade II* listed pier at Weston-super-Mare.