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NewsTorquay site is pathfinder
Exeter-based Kensington Taylor Architects has won planning permission for this £24 million community college in Torquay. The scheme is a One School Pathfinder, funded by Building Schools for the Future, to allow Torbay Council a pilot project for its future approach to BSF.
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NewsCase of the empty house
Urgent repairs to save the grade II listed Surrey home of Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle are being carried out by local authority workmen.
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Williams up for Norwegian jazz
Keith Williams Architects has been short-listed to design a jazz house and theatre in Molde, Norway, home of the country’s biggest annual international jazz festival.
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Locals forum for legacy views
The Olympic Delivery Authority is to establish an Olympic Park regeneration steering group to promote local people’s involvement in planning the effective legacy uses of the Olympic Park.
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£1,000 student prize up for grabs
RIBA South East has offered a £1,000 prize for an architecture student from the region to take on an additional research project.
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NewsUEA to honour Will Alsop
The University of East Anglia is to award an honorary degree in civil law to Will Alsop.
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Work to stabilise Silbury Hill starts
Work has begun to stabilise the 4,400-year old Silbury Hill in Wiltshire.
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NewsEast End scheme passes planning
Tower Hamlets Council has granted planning permission for Child Graddon Lewis’s high-density, mixed-use development at the junction of Limehouse Cut and Bow Common Lane in London’s East End.
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Fort William centre opens
A new £9 million community health centre designed by Young & Gault Architects has opened in Fort William.
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NewsNews Junkie: 19 and 20 May
In this week's patriotic issue: Britannia harvests the waves, the planning White Paper dismays Lady Caroline Cranbrook, anaerobic digestion in our homes and an 'in-your-face scrotum' at the Chelsea Flower Show.
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Foster faces the critics
NEWS: Foster denies "similarity" between new Abu Dhabi city and Koolhaas scheme...NEWS:...as financial watchdog questions winding up of employee share scheme. DEBATE: Will Foster's deal with 3i be good for the practice?
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RIBA local awards announced
The local chapters of the RIBA have named the winners of their annual awards. Winners include Sandy Wilson's Pallant House extension in Chichester and John McAslan's refurbishment of The Roundhouse in north London.
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NewsCabe blasts design for 2012 venue
Cabe has slammed designs by Atkins for a 2012 Olympic sailing venue as “overcomplicated” and “lacking conviction”.
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NewsGateway housing failures exposed
Landmark report issues call for action to improve design quality in the Thames Gateway
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Gordon Brown's eco-towns
Brown sets out to prove his "green" credentials with sustainable housebuilding boom
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NewsNews Junkie: 12 and 13 May
In this week's bumper despatch: a boom in married singletons, David Dimbleby thinks Modernism didn't quite work, why 15 newts cost £315,000, and how an art gallery's credibility disappeared up its own Banksy.