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NewsFit for a Prince
RMJM has submitted a planning application for its first project in Liverpool, a large mixed-use development including a residential tower on the historic Princes Dock site.
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NewsBalmond slates UK ‘conservatism’
British architecture pales in comparison to the rest of the world, according to Cecil Balmond, one of the country’s foremost engineers.
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Six projects vie for £50m lottery prize
Projects including a conference centre in Sherwood Forest, a technology museum on a former airfield in Wiltshire and a cluster of waterways schemes in Somerset are on a shortlist to receive to £50 million of lottery money.
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Rejected Wirral project undermines Cabe’s role
A developer has questioned the advisory role of Cabe and English Heritage after a large waterfront regeneration scheme in New Brighton on the Wirral was rejected at public inquiry.
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Mixed-use and transport are keys to Lea Valley Park
The first stage of Urban Initiatives’ report on Lee Valley Park says mixed-use developments, as well as improved transport links and job creation, are fundamental to the area’s future
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Cutting edge couple deserve Royal Gold
We won’t know until December if Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown will be the recipients of this year’s Royal Gold Medal, but they fully deserve this recognition.
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NewsStyle over size at budget hotel
Planning permission has been granted for this colourful £4 million hotel in the heart of Manchester.
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NewsAlsop to bid for London design job
Will Alsop made a dramatic bid to run design in London this week, turning his longheld frustrations with the Richard Rogers-led orthodoxy into action.
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Fire-gutted building to be rebuilt with concrete
Broadway Malyan’s timber frame building that was gutted by fire last month will be rebuilt using concrete, the developer has said.
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NewsMcCloud’s grand designs for prefab
Channel 4 presenter invites architects to help design up to 100 homes for new sustainable development
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NewsScottish watchdog calls for tougher design policy
Architecture & Design Scotland this week called on the Scottish Executive to forge a tough new policy on architecture by introducing targets on key issues such as skills, leadership and PFI.
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New Orleans jeopardised by shortage of planners
A shortage of planning officers is jeopardising the reconstruction of New Orleans nearly a year after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city and killed more than 1,300 people last August.
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NewsDesign an arts centre for the Thames Gateway
The third and final Line of Site design challenge goes live today. The brief looks to create an iconic arts centre within the Thames Gateway which will serve as a visual landmark to the entrance to one of the world’s most exciting, vibrant and culturally diverse cities.
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NewsJust who voted for Phillips?
Despite being outed as a BNP member, Peter Phillips won a fifth of the vote in last week’s RIBA presidential vote. Ellen Bennett examines the reasons for his appeal
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Simpson’s Leeds towers win planning permission
Ian Simpson Architects’ soaring tower scheme Lumiere received planning permission last week from Leeds City Council.
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760 register for Prague library competition
The competition to design a new building for Prague’s National Library of the Czech Republic has attracted 760 practices from around the world paying the competition’s 6,000 koruna (£144) registration fee.
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New Space in Stalybridge
Space Craft Architects has won planning permission for this scheme at Longlands Mill in Stalybridge, Cheshire. The practice was selected from a shortlist that included Ian Simpson, Walter Menteth, Patel Taylor and Union North.