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Penoyre & Prasad’s new Richard Desmond Children’s Eye Centre at Moorfield Eye Hospital in central London has reached practical completion.
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NewsJenkins: apologise for 1960s estates
One of Britain’s most influential journalists has demanded that the RIBA establish a South African-style reconciliation commission to allow architects to investigate their responsibility for sixties and seventies housing estates, which he claimed “ruined lives”.
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NewsStratford City moves to planning
Developer Westfield has submitted a full planning application for Stratford City, designed by Arup, Fletcher Priest and landscape architect West 8, to the Olympic Delivery Authority.
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NewsArray of large-scale projects in the Southwark pipeline
Southwark Borough Council has staked an early claim to be the architectural client of 2007 by revealing an incredible array of pioneering developments in the pipeline.
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EP/Housing Corp merger imminent
The government is set to announce the merger of the Housing Corporation and English Partnerships into a “super quango” called Communities England.
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NewsLearning tower
Carey Jones Architects has secured planning permission for an £80 million student flat development in central Leeds, set to become the tallest in the UK at 37 storeys.
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Glen Howells to masterplan 21ha Birmingham scheme
Glenn Howells Architects has been appointed by Isis Waterside Regeneration to masterplan the regeneration of a huge site in north west Birmingham.
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NewsKaleidoscope children's health centre by van Heyningen & Haward
Following a year of planning and 18 months construction, architect van Heyningen & Haward has completed work on Kaleidoscope, its new children’s health centre for Lewisham Primary Care Trust.
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Competition boycott call met with silence
Rem Koolhaas’s call for architects to boycott the competition system (News January 5) has met with deafening silence from his fellow star practitioners, but sparked a fierce debate on the archinect.com discussion board.
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Cabe backs crossroads for Sloane Square
Cabe has endorsed Stanton Williams’s plans to transform Sloane Square in Knightsbridge by replacing the gyratory with a staggered crossroads.
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NewsBanged up with Alsop
Will Alsop’s Creative Prisons exhibition opens at the Architecture Foundation’s Yard Gallery on Old Street, London, on January 19.
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NewsIce age two
Hugh Broughton Architects and Faber Maunsell have reached the final two in a competition to design an Indian research base for the Antartic. The pair’s designs are similar to those that won the RIBA competition for a UK research base.
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Big names shortlisted to design Nicosia art gallery
The RIBA has announced a star-studded shortlist for its competition to design an £8 million art gallery in central Cyprus.
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US tower engineer teams up to open London office
The engineer behind the world’s tallest building, Thornton Tomasetti, has opened a London office.
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NewsRem demands boycott
Koolhaas campaigns to overhaul star-studded design competitions after Gazprom HQ controversy
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NewsHpod set to radically change hospital design
Nightingale Associates is to put a decades’ worth of research into the healing aspects of design to the test, under a unique project also involving the Building Centre, Arup and electronics giant Philips.
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Haringey council axes its architects
Switch to design-and-build blamed for architect redundancies
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NewsPortsmouth John Lewis revised after protests
Designs for a flagship John Lewis department store in the centre of Portsmouth have been substantially revised after earlier efforts were slammed by local architecture and civic groups.