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Mann Island go-ahead settles waterfront site
Liverpool’s planning committee approved Broadway Malyan’s Mann Island scheme this week, finally settling the fate of the waterfront site originally intended for Will Alsop’s “Fourth Grace”.
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Tate Britain shortlist favours
Up and coming firms DRMM and DSDHA are competing against established names including Rick Mather to become the exclusive architect for Tate Britain.
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Pascall & Watson mulls Atkins takeover offer
Heathrow Terminal 5 designer Pascall & Watson has confirmed that it is considering a takeover bid from multi-disciplinary consultancy Atkins.
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NewsStem cell centre
Sheppard Robson has been appointed to design a £35 million Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh.
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NewsLyon knowledge bank
Austrian firm Coop Himmelb(l)au has released this image of its Musée des Confluences in Lyon, France, now on site.
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Academy contractors set to name main architects
Partnerships for Schools has confirmed that the six contractors appointed to the national framework for city academies will each have to select a main architect to work with.
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Two firms join jinxed Edinburg
Sutherland Hussey Architects and Comprehensive Design Architects are the latest practices to appear in the long running saga of Edinburgh’s £100 million Haymarket site.
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NewsCambridge squared away
Planning has been granted for this graduate hostel for St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, designed by local practice 5th Studio. The one and two storey U-shaped development, on a 900sq m city centre site, will include 22 graduate rooms and accommodation for two fellows.
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NewsSpotcheck: southeast
Good offices Michael Kilgore Associates is to design a major new office development in Kent.
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Five firms shortlisted for Royal College of Art
Benson & Forsyth, Feilden Clegg Bradley, Haworth Tomkins, Urban Salon and Keith Williams Architects have been shortlisted to design a new building for the Royal College of Art in Battersea, south London.
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NewsFollowing in the delegations
BD followed in the Unesco mission’s footsteps, with a tour that began on the north bank of the Thames looking up at the Tower of London’s southern walls.
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Two teams left on Lea Valley shortlist
Anglo-Dutch team KCAP/Maccreanor Lavington and the Halpern Partnership have made it to the last two in a shortlist for an 800-home development in the Lower Lea Valley on the site of the former St Andrew’s Hospital, beating Ken Shuttleworth’s Make.
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News2012 dreams dashed
Risk-averse Jowell abdicates design responsibility for London Olympics to contractors
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RRP slams framework for city academies
Procurement changes will ‘probably not deliver well-designed schools’
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NewsHigh-density race warning
Trevor Phillips says designers must consider community cohesion when planning new developments
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GMW finally set to grasp Victoria contract
GMW Architects with developer Hammerson is on the verge of being appointed to the massive redevelopment of Victoria Station in central London.
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Second bite at Warsaw museum
Zaha Hadid and Tony Fretton have been approved to enter the new design competition for the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland, four months after they were disqualified from its abortive first running.
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White paper seeks more power for planners
Radical reforms outlined in the local government white paper could give planning authorities the confidence to take controversial decisions, an expert has said.