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NewsHousing up for awards
Julian Cowie Architects’ Melody Lane project in Islington, north London, is among completed schemes shortlisted for this year’s Housing Design Awards.
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Zaha Glasgow museum granted extra funding
Extra funding for Zaha Hadid’s Museum of Transport in Glasgow has been approved after SNP opposition councillors withdrew their objections and agreed a £14 million increase in the budget.
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Wilkinson is made EH commissioner
Chris Wilkinson, principal of Wilkinson Eyre Architects, has been appointed as a commissioner at English Heritage.
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NewsPMT and Niall Phillips merge
Historic buildings specialist Purcell Miller Tritton is set to extend its new-build business after merging with Niall Phillips Architects, designer of Wolverhampton’s £6.7 million art gallery project.
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Lancashire aims to guard quality
Cabe, English Heritage and a host of regeneration agencies have signed up to a multiparty group set up to ensure the quality of Lancashire’s redevelopment.
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NewsRon Arad starts work on Media City shopping centre
Ron Arad Associates has begun work on a shopping mall in the heart of the Media City development in the Belgian city of Liège.
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Welcome for ‘long overdue’ review of section 106
Architects have hailed a review of the controversial section 106 system which they claim developers are using to sideline the profession and outsmart local authorities.
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180 register for Tutti Frutti
More than 180 people have registered for Urban Splash’s Tutti Frutti contest, which will see 26 entrants win a chance to design and build a house on a street in New Islington in Manchester.
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NewsOgilvie designs garden exhibition
Architect Yseult Ogilvie has designed this building to house the Museum of Garden History’s exhibition on the relationship between architects and gardeners.
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Work starts on Living Wall
Work has begun on Foster & Partners’ Living Wall project, a mixed-use development in the centre of Amman in Jordan.
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Arb reprimand for misconduct
Arb’s professional conduct committee of has reprimanded Haris Subasinghe for serious professional incompetence, acting contrary to the interests of his client.
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Architecture Week axed
Next year’s Architecture Week has been cancelled after the Arts Council scrapped funding for the annual event amid fears that it could become irrelevant and out of date
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MacCormac’s suburban task force unveiled
Architects re-engage with housing as RIBA launches new policy
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NewsHospital robots spark design row
Safety fears challenge Keppie Design’s ‘future for medical architecture’
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NewsYoung firms celebrate Olympic shortlisting
Up-and-coming practices including Softroom, Tonkin Liu and McDowell & Benedetti are celebrating after being shortlisted this week in the design competition for a major Olympic footbridge.
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Allies & Morrison director to head Cabe design review
Allies & Morrison director Diane Haigh has been appointed director of architecture and design review at Cabe.Haigh, who spent 11 years at the practice, has recently worked as project director on the Royal Observatory’s planetarium in Greenwich and was project associate on the Royal Festival Hall refurbishment, both unveiled last ...
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NewsDerwent to expand its portfolio
Developer promises opportunities as it takes on 10 new London sites
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RIBA's new housing space standards
Controversial new standards to eliminate "Noddy boxes" are outdated say critics
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Will Margaret Hodge make a good architecture minister?
Architects have bid a less than fond farewell to MP David Lammy, who has been replaced as architecture minister in the government reshuffle by Margaret Hodge.Lammy, who was widely seen to have displayed little interest in the built environment and was repeatedly criticised by figures including RIBA president Jack Pringle ...