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NewsRMJM working double time on Scottish college project
This £50 million development designed by RMJM on two separate sites is Scotland’s largest further education project.
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NewsAlsop’s US power play
Will Alsop’s designs to trans-form a disused power station in Yonkers, New York, into a multi-use development have been significantly overhauled.
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Lib Dems advocate ‘energy mortgages’
The Liberal Democrats have set out stringent proposals to cut domestic carbon emissions through refurbishment, after taking advice from the RIBA.
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NewsCCA’s monkey business
Work has begun on this £4.5 million chimpanzee enclosure at Edinburgh Zoo by Cooper Cromar Architects.
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NewsGarden suburb must stay basement-free
Plans to alter houses at west London’s Bedford Park — the nation’s earliest garden suburb — have been rejected in a landmark ruling by the Planning Inspectorate.
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NewsSpace Craft and Urban Splash win Bristol design
Space Craft Architects is to design Urban Splash’s second development in Bristol.
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NewsCapita Symonds’ new MD is Goring
Multidisciplinary giant Capita Symonds has appointed Jonathan Goring as its new managing director, replacing Bill Dye, who returns to Capita Group PLC.
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Quality prize for Seacole building
Associated Architects’ Seacole building at the University of Central England has received a Built in Quality award from Birmingham City Council.
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NewsHeritage cash aids Castle refit
Feilden Clegg Bradley’s project to restore Taunton Castle and turn it into the Museum of Somerset has won £4.8 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
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NewsLighthouse debut at Offsite show
Lighthouse, a Sheppard Robson-designed scheme billed as the “first net zero carbon house”, will be unveiled at the Building Research Establishment’s Offsite 2007 exhibition in June.
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Viñoly and Piano at BCO meeting
Rafael Viñoly and Renzo Piano are to head a panel of architects discussing trends in office design at the British Council for Offices’ annual conference in New York.
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NewsMurray and Pert join Strathclyde
Former RIAS president Gordon Murray and Nord’s Alan Pert have been appointed professors of architecture and urban design at the University of Strathclyde’s school of architecture in Glasgow.
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Effort to save Bedford cinema
The Victorian Society has appealed to English Heritage to list the Bedford Hall Cinema in Liverpool and save it from demolition. The 1910 building is due to be knocked down to make way for new housing.
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NewsWill outsourcing take the heat off Arb?
The controversial validation process for foreign-trained architects may be resolved, as architecture schools welcome Arb’s invitation to take over the exam.
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PRP plans homes for historic airfield
PRP Architects has submitted a 425-home redevelopment of the historic Cardington Airfield site in Bedford for planning.
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Is new public space serving the public?
News: The public wants space not style, warns top think-tankOpinion: Amanda Baillieu says architects must sit up and listen Joseph Rowntree report: Available to download
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Chipperfield in Valencia
In pictures: As the America's Cup gets underway in Valencia, Chipperfield's landmark building is a focus for race-goers. 60 seconds with: David Chipperfield on his most iconic work
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Think07 at London's Excel
NEWS: Cabe's eco-audit to be launched at Think60 SECONDS WITH: Think speaker Terry Farrell
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NewsBlock listed
Nicholas Grimshaw and Terry Farrell's Park Road housing in London's St John's Road was listed in January 2002