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News2012 Olympic stadium gets thumbs down
Readers response to HOK's Olympic stadium have been overwhelmingly negative, likening the design to a gasometer, a cheap whisky glass and a giant bottle cap
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NewsCoexistence holds charity auction for Maggie's Centres
Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid are among the architects donating items for Coexistence's charity auction in benefit of Maggie's cancer care centres
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NewsBDP wins award for Murrays’ Mills
BDP has won an award from the Georgian Group for its restoration of Murrays’ Mills at Ancoats in Manchester.
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School-to-homes scheme go-ahead
Alan Phillips Architects has won planning for an ultra high-density residential scheme in Haywards Heath, West Sussex.
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Blue plaque for Pevsner’s house
The late architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner was this week honoured with an English Heritage blue plaque at 2 Wildwood Terrace Hampstead, north London, where he lived from 1936 until his death in 1983.
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NewsCall to rebuild St Bride’s bell tower
Gordon Benson of Benson Forsyth Architects has called for the demolished campanile of Gillespie, Kidd & Coia’s St Bride’s Church in East Kilbride (pictured) to be rebuilt.
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Next Generation 2008 launched
The Architecture Foundation and Pipers have launched the 2008 Next Generation Architects Award.
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Brown targets built environment
The built environment has featured strongly in the Queen’s Speech, with bills proposing sweeping changes to the sector.
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Restored St Pancras station opens
The restored St Pancras station was officially opened on Tuesday.
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NewsLiverpool’s new design goes ahead
Liverpool Football Club’s bold new £400 million stadium (above) by HKS Architects won planning approval this week.
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NewsSanaa boxes clever in New York
New York’s New Museum of Contemporary Art has unveiled its first dedicated building, designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa’s practice Sanaa.
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NewsAnti-crime design team faces cuts
Local councils set to take over Metropolitan Police advisory role
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NT buys land to save it from development
The National Trust plans to buy greenfield land in a bid to stop the government “eroding” the countryside with its ambitious house-building agenda.
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NewsRMJM sets a new pattern for Paisley University campus
RMJM has applied for outline planning permission for this £75 million campus for the University of Paisley.
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NewsHackney regenerates
The second phase of Levitt Bernstein’s celebrated Queensbridge Quarter has received planning permission.
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NewsFour firms on RIBA’s Cheltenham shortlist
Berman Guedes Stretton, David Grindley Architects, Ellis Williams and Ramboll Whitbybird have been shortlisted in an RIBA contest to work on Cheltenham’s art gallery and museum.
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NewsMull paints it black
Edinburgh-based practice City Architecture Office has gone on site with this theatre production centre on the Isle of Mull.
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NewsSheppard Robson’s Trocadero plan rejected
A landmark 500-bed hotel proposed by Sheppard Robson on the site of London’s famous Trocadero complex has been sent back to the drawing board by Westminster City Council’s planning committee.
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Pier centre picked as Scotland’s best
Reiach & Hall’s Pier Arts Centre in Orkney has beaten competition from buildings including Zaha Hadid’s Maggie’s Centre at Kirkcaldy to scoop Britain’s most lucrative architectural prize.
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Beetham Tower takes tall award
Ian Simpson has scooped an international award for his Beetham Tower in Manchester.