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NewsSix on shortlist for Sheffield Festival Centre
The six designs shortlisted in the competition for a new festival centre in Sheffield include proposals from Carmody Groarke, HLM and Prue Chiles
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NewsCall for riders for Cycle to Cannes 2008
Registration for next year’s charity bike ride from London to Cannes for the Mipim Property Fair opens next week. Cycle master Peter Murray explains why you should sign up
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NewsPrescott was advised to refuse Vauxhall Tower
Former deputy prime minister John Prescott gave planning permission for Broadway Malyan’s 50-storey Vauxhall Tower even though his own advisers recommended he refuse it, saying it would damage a world heritage site. A newly released planning document sourced by former Tory environment secretary Kenneth Baker after a prolonged battle (News, ...
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NewsErick van Egeraat wins Tatarstan library competition - images
Erick van Egeraat has won an international competition to design a national library in Kazan, capital of the Republic of Tatarstan
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NewsNews Junkie: 30 June and 1 July
What may 'surprise on the upside' later this year? How might a 'new-new paradigm' protect the British property market from US recession? Who 'relaxed in embroidered slippers in his winged armchair'? Answers below...
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Poor city centre letting down capital’s image
Design for London says millions needed for public realm to match other European cities
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NewsArt of restoration on display in the Orkneys
Saturday sees the reopening of the Pier Arts Centre in the Orkney town of Stromness, following the completion of a £4.5 million expansion by Reiach & Hall.
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NewsUnesco danger list reprieve for London
Capital gets a year’s grace but critics blast heritage decision as a ‘fudge’
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Creative services boost UK economy
Lack of diversity, a low level of educational funding and poor public perception are stalling the progress of the architectural profession, according to a study likely to shape government policy on the creative industries.
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NewsGo-ahead for 2012 sailing venues...
A sailing venue slated by the Cabe design review panel is one of two Olympic sailing projects in Dorset to be granted planning permission.
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... while handball is still up for grabs
The ODA this week started the Ojeu process to find a design team for the handball arena for the Olympics. The arena will be one of the games’ five permanent venues, and is expected to have a capacity of up to 10,000 spectators.
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NewsCentre ‘does not do justice to Burns’
Designs for a museum to celebrate Scotland’s foremost poet Robert Burns have failed to match the “international significance” of the project, the country’s architecture watchdog claims.
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NewsBath interchange reverts to glass
Panel rejects stone alternative to Wilkinson Eyre’s ‘busometer’
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NewsDerwent London wins top client
Property company Derwent London, which commissioned John McAslan & Partners’ RIBA award-winning Dorset Square (pictured), has scooped the £5,000 RIBA Client of the Year award.
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Page takes up post at Cabe Space
Ben Page, head of Ipsos Mori Social Research Institute, is to chair Cabe Space’s advisory committee.
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Bioregional Quintain and HAB split
HAB Housing and Bioregional Quintain have parted company after Grand Designs presenter Kevin McCloud’s company scaled down its eco-house project, which is expected to be broadcast on TV. HAB’s original intention was to build a 150-200 unit development in the West Country.
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NewsMurrain takes role at Greenwich
Paul Murrain, senior fellow at the Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment, has been appointed a visiting professor at the University of Greenwich.
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NewsSteel accolade for Newport bridge
Grimshaw’s £5 million pedestrian and cycle bridge in Newport has been honoured at the Structural Steel Design Awards.
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Cheltenham art gallery to extend
Cheltenham Borough Council has launched an RIBA competition for a “flagship” extension to its 100-year-old art gallery and museum.