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NewsJenkins: architects are littering the UK
Journalist and author Simon Jenkins has launched a broadside against architects, accusing them of being behind a drive to use the planning system to litter the country with unpopular “iconic” buildings.
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NewsGLA defends Doon Street
The Greater London Authority has publicly defended Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands’ Doon Street tower as the second week of the public inquiry got under way.
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NewsMadrid art world in suspense
A major cultural centre in Madrid by Herzog & de Meuron was opened this week by the king and queen of Spain.
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NewsPutney block given new facade as Miller rethinks sixties design
David Miller Architects has submitted a planning application for a 2,800sq m mixed-use building in Putney town centre, south-west London.
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NewsBig names join BD’s campaign to list Robin Hood Gardens
Writer Alain de Botton, property developer Stuart Lipton and architectural historian Alan Powers have all added their weight to BD’s Rescue Robin Hood Gardens campaign. Within hours of BD launching its campaign to list the landmark Alison and Peter Smithson housing estate, dozens had joined the fight.Peter Cook, Joseph Rykwert, ...
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DCM to build Birmingham court
Denton Corker Marshall has been appointed by HM Courts Service to design a new magistrates’ court for Birmingham. The 20,000sq m building, in the centre of the city, will house 24 courts over 15 storeys.
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Tories call for planning reform
The planning system should be reformed to “incentivise the use of an architect for both applicants and local authorities”, shadow architecture minister Ed Vaizey said this week.
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NewsEH says OK to Dyson’s Bath school
English Heritage has told Bath & North East Somerset Council it has no objections to Wilkinson Eyre’s plans for a school for entrepreneur James Dyson in the city’s South Quays district.
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‘Credit crunch’ does for Hadid HQ
The Architecture Foundation has ditched its proposed Zaha Hadid-designed HQ, blaming the “credit crunch”.
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NewsYRM wins planning at Baia Mare
YRM has won planning for a huge, mixed-use scheme at Baia Mare in Romania, for client Red Projects.
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NewsReport drops barriers to shared space
The controversial concept of “shared space” — which would transform Britain’s streets by abolishing “barriers” such as kerbs, railings, traffic lights and white lines — has taken a major step forward with the publication of a report recommending its use.
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NewsPrince does it again with Essex ‘dustbin’ comment
The Prince of Wales has once again ruffled feathers in the architectural community by branding a building by Patel Taylor a “dustbin”.
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NewsArresting copper
Multidisciplinary firm McBains Cooper has designed a contemporary police station in Cambourne, Cambridgeshire.
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NewsCheltenham gallery win
Oxford-based practice Berman Guedes Stretton has won an RIBA competition to design a £4 million extension to the Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum.
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Cabe cautious on Simpson’s Owen St
Cabe has criticised the quality of public space proposed for Ian Simpson Architects’ Owen Street scheme in the practice’s home city of Manchester.
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EH upgrades listed synagogue
Ernest Alfred Shennan’s 1936 New Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Liverpool has been upgraded to grade II* listed status.
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RIBA showcase on CPD hits road
The RIBA is to kick off its biggest programme to date of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Providers Network roadshows.
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News£14m Southwark scheme go-ahead
Alan Camp Architects has won planning approval for a £14 million, five-storey, mixed-use development in the London Borough of Southwark.
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NewsBerkshire home given green light
Gregory Phillips Architects has won planning permission for this modern family home near Reading, Berkshire.
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