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NewsMeadowview country house by Platform 5
Platform 5 has won planning permission for Meadowview, a country house in Bedfordshire.
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Atkins parachuted into Sloane Square
Multi-disciplinary giant Atkins has waded into one of the most controversial schemes in the country with alternative designs for London’s Sloane Square.
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NewsBridging Birmingham
PRC Architects has revealed its design for a bridge between Abstract Land and Dandara at Great Charles Street, Birmingham.
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Construction phase needs safety measures
Beyond the residential sector, timber is gaining a growing following thanks to its credentials as a renewable, sustainable resource, and the development of engineered timber products for frames, roofs, walls and even entire buildings.
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Two battle it out in River Lea bridge competition
Knight Architects and Cezary Bednarski are going head to head to design a £2.5 million pedestrian bridge over the River Lea Navigation in Tottenham Hale for British Waterways.
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News‘Design is at the heart of what we are doing here’
Ricky Burdett is to become design adviser to the London Olympics after mounting critcism that the design of the 2012 games is being handed to contractors.
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Government slashes density requirements
The government has scrapped its plans to force local authorities to build to densities of up to 70 dwellings per ha, it was announced this week.
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NewsMiller teams up for Birmingham
Groundbreaking deal unites gallery specialist John Miller and Sidell Gibson for 20-year museum project
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NewsYoung firms lined up for Liverpool housing
Urban Splash has assembled a crack team of young practices for a trailblazing housing scheme in south central Liverpool.
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1,160 enter Stockholm library competition
An astonishing 1,160 entries have been submitted for an open competition to design a £60 million extension to Gunnar Asplund’s iconic public library in Stockholm.
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NewsCabe to act as enforcer for Gateway ‘design pact’
Cabe has been appointed to perform an audit of the design quality of all new housing built in the Thames Gateway between now and 2010, it was announced at last week’s Thames Gateway Forum.
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NewsHolland Park city academy by Aedas
Aedas has revealed designs for a city academy in Holland Park, controversially replacing the existing school, London’s first ever purpose-built comprehensive, and building on playing fields.
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NewsLincoln museum takes top honours
Panter Hudspith Architects’ museum in Lincoln, the Collection: Art & Archaeology, has been named as the overall winner in the Concrete Society’s 2006 Awards for Excellence in Concrete Construction in the buildings category.
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Carillion’s PFI campus wins sustainability award
Carillion’s £50 million Queen Margaret University College, PFI campus development in Musselburgh, Scotland, has been chosen as the winner of The Concrete Centre’s Sustainability Award for 2006.
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Tees Valley says yes to Marge Simpson’s hair
A flagship development near Middlesbrough by architects including Will Alsop, Grimshaw, Feilden Clegg Bradley and Studio Egret West will go ahead after terms were agreed with developer BioRegional Quintain.
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NewsBD sweeps the board with four awards
Building Design has swept the boards at the prestigious International Building Press awards, beating publications across the construction industry to the coveted title of Magazine of the Year.
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McCloud blasts changes to Castleford bridge
Kevin McCloud, presenter of Channel 4’s forthcoming series on the Castleford regeneration project, has raised fears over the design quality of the scheme’s “jewel in the crown” development with an extraordinary attack on lead client Wakefield Metropolitan District Council.