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NewsPaddington care
Conservationists were celebrating this week at the news that Network Rail had dropped its plans to demolish the grade I listed Span Four at London’s Paddington Station.
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News24-hr Serpentine marathon: No sleep till Doris Lessing
First of all, I have to come clean. I didn’t make it all the way through. The prospect of spending 24 hours in a Tupperware drum during the hottest July in recorded history initially carried a certain David Blainesque appeal.
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Planners ‘shouldn’t fill green gap’
Planning officers should not be expected to improve the environmental performance of buildings, says a government-backed report on sustainable construction.
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Coleraine’s ‘museum without walls’
O’Donnell & Tuomey Architects has won the hotly contested competition to design a new museum in Coleraine, Northern Ireland. The practice, which was shortlisted for last year’s Stirling Prize, beat competitors Heneghan Peng, Niall McLaughlin, Consarc Design Group and Panter Hudspith Architects to the commission.
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RIBA survey probes members opinions about architecture
The biggest ever survey of architects’ thoughts on the profession, the RIBA and the role of architecture in public life is about to go live. The survey, commissioned by the RIBA to improve communication with members, will be emailed to all architects this month after the draft questions are approved ...
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19% back BNP man
Profession welcomes Sunand Prasad as next RIBA president after controversial election
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Poor Edinburgh part I results buck UK upturn
Only two-thirds of third-year undergraduate students at the Edinburgh College of Art have gained their part I.
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NewsFury at Barbican building threat
Chamberlin Powell & Bon’s Milton Court building would make way for £100 million Guildhall development
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Prescott’s scrapped summit costs £310,000
The Sustainable Communities summit that communities secretary Ruth Kelly scrapped on coming into office had already cost her department £310,000.
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NewsHeat alert at Hopkins hospital
An urgent investigation has been launched after patients at a flagship hospital nominated for this year’s Prime Minister’s Better Public Building award allegedly sweltered in temperatures of up to 32°C (90°F) during the recent hot weather.
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NewsManchester proposal axed
A competition to design a new building in a prominent location in St Peter’s Square, Manchester, has been scrapped following the selection of GMW Architects and Sheppard Robson as joint winners.
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Koolhaas in 24-hour interview
Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist will be seeing the night through at the Serpentine Gallery this Friday, alongside a raft of notable figures in a marathon debate focusing on London.
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Hospital corners
The UK’s largest architectural practice, BDP, has won planning permission for this distinctive hospital, the Pinderfields General Hospital and Pontefract General Infirmary in Wakefield.
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NewsCourtroom drama
Douglas Wallace Architects has been appointed to redesign Bow Street Magistrates Court, a central London landmark.
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Olympic planners are set to bid for stadium
HOK Sport and other members of the Edaw-led consortium which masterplanned the Olympic Park are also in the running for the greatest prize of all: the Olympic Stadium.