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RTKL purchase swells Arcadis
Dutch engineering firm Arcadis has acquired RTKL Associates, one of the world’s largest architecture, engineering and design firms.
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NewsRenaissance call seeks new policy
The Town & Country Planning Association has called for a “suburban renaissance”, telling delegates at its Garden Cities conference this week that the suburbs need a major policy reappraisal.
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Private funds for EP top £1 billion
Private sector investment in English Partnerships’ regeneration schemes has topped £1 billion for the first time.
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NewsBarking Riverside’s first shortlist
AHMM, Broadway Malyan, Hawkins Brown, KCAPML, Schmidt Hammer Lassen and Sheppard Robson have been shortlisted to design the first two phases of Barking Riverside (pictured above), the largest single development in the Thames Gateway.
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Cabe educational work celebrated
Two exhibitions celebrating Cabe’s national educational programme, How Places Work, opened in Manchester and Liverpool this week.
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NewsAllies defends firm’s role in mosque job
Allies & Morrison has strongly defended its actions in taking over from young practice Mangera Yvars as architect on the UK’s largest mosque building project.
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NewsSheppard Robson £17m biotech centre opened
Sheppard Robson’s £17 million Institute of Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College London, a refurbishment of the sixties’ Bessemer building, was opened by the Queen this week. The institute houses a nanotechnology centre and suites for around 15 biotechnology start-ups.
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NewsRyder HKS comes calling for Avon’s global headquarters
Ryder HKS has unveiled its design for the headquarters of cosmetics company Avon at Northampton.
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NewsAsh Sakula nets £45m job
Ash Sakula has won its largest project to date — a £45 million cultural quarter to be built alongside Rafael Viñoly’s visual arts centre in Colchester, Essex.
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NewsCJ Lim’s pie in the sky
Newly appointed professor at the Bartlett school of architecture, CJ Lim, has unveiled this weird and wonderful solution to the capital’s traffic gridlock — the Sky Transport for London project.
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NewsNew image for warehouse
Trevor Horne Architects has received planning permission for this £2.5 million conversion of a warehouse into a photography studio, offices and flats for the photographer and film director Rankin.
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Swindon picked as site for McCloud housing
DSDHA and Wright & Wright are to design two schemes in Swindon, Wiltshire, of up to 200 homes each as the first venture for TV presenter Kevin McCloud’s Hab Housing project.
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Lottery cash for docks museums
Purcell Miller Tritton and van Heyningen & Haward Architects have secured £5 million worth of Heritage Lottery funding to turn a grade II listed building in Chatham into a gallery and storage area for marine collections.
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NewsManchester block wins approval
HKR has won planning permission for a £35 million office building in the Great Bridgewater area of Manchester.
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Get green with online database
BRE Certification has launched a digital database to help built environment professionals reduce their carbon footprints.
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Shoreditch opens allotment project
Former RIBA president Maxwell Hutchinson has opened the Vacant Lot project, a drive to create a sense of community in inner-city locations, run by architects Ulrike Steven and Gareth Morris of innovation company What If.
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NewsDiane Haigh joins Cabe board
Cabe has made Allies & Morrison’s Diane Haigh its director of architecture and design review.
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NewsHopkins wins Olympic velodrome
This concept design by Hopkins Architects with Expedition Engineering is the winning proposal for the Olympic velodrome.
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Brown plans new house-building boom but ditches super-casinos
Prime minister Gordon Brown yesterday signalled a new house-building boom, calling for three million new homes to be built by 2020. Providing a preview of proposed legislative measures set to appear in the Queen’s speech this autumn, the prime minister indicated that environmental and sustainability issues would feature strongly in ...
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NewsTop architects to revitalise Sheffield
But retail row erupts over mixed-use scheme to develop city centre