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NewsRenault Centre seeks one careful owner
A careful owner, preferably an architecture or design practice, is being sought to occupy Norman Foster’s iconic Renault Centre in Swindon after its future was secured through a new restoration scheme.
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Elephant & Castle delays raise fears over project
Fears were raised this week over delays to one of the largest regeneration projects in the country — London’s £1.5 billion Elephant & Castle scheme.
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NewsStonehenge centre wins approval
An epic 15-year-long struggle to build a new visitor centre at World Heritage site Stonehenge received a crucial boost this week after Denton Corker Marshall’s £65 million project won planning permission.
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Supermarkets choose timber
Supermarket giants Tesco and Asda are planning to replace their standard steel frames with timber in selected new stores to reduce their ecological footprint.
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Watchdog slates Glasgow £1.2bn regeneration plan
A £1.2 billion regeneration project in Glasgow by Chapman Taylor is “fundamentally flawed”, according to watchdog Architecture & Design Scotland.
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Dye another day
A £60 million development complex in Leicester by Ian Simpson Architects has been approved for planning.
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HLM scoops £30m PFI Plymouth school project
HLM Architects and local partner Lacey Hickie & Caley have been awarded the £30 million Plymouth schools Private Finance Initiative project.
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Museum in timber row opens after BDP revamp
Glasgow’s A-listed Kelvingrove Museum reopened on Tuesday following its controversial £29 million refurbishment by BDP.
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NewsZedfactory sets out Chinese ambitions
Bill Dunster’s Zedfactory has won planning permission in Changsha, central China, for an innovative low-carbon residential building, which is currently out to tender.
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NewsDyson’s clean lines
This bold structure is the forthcoming James Dyson School of Design Innovation in Bath, by Wilkinson Eyre Architects.
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C of E to decide which churches will be saved
Heritage watchdogs have attacked the Church of England after its decision to abolish statutory body the Advisory Board for Redundant Churches.
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O’Donnell & Tuomey snap up photo centre
Stirling Prize nominee O’Donnell & Tuomey has been appointed to design its first building in England. The architect of the Lewis Glucksman Gallery at University College Cork, will create a new centre for London’s Photographers’ Gallery in Ramillies Street.
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New push for carbon-neutral homes
This week’s energy review outlined the government’s intention to step up its drive to make all new housing developments carbon-neutral, giving more support to on-site electricity generation such as mini-wind turbines and solar panels.
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NewsA long way from Bash Street
Reiach & Hall architects has won a competition to design a £20 million civic centre in Dundee. It beat a shortlist of three, including RMJM and Gordon Murray & Alan Dunlop Architects to design a replacement for the current council offices, which will be demolished as part of the city’s ...
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NewsEdge of Eden
Grimshaw Architects has celebrated an exceptional week after it emerged that its third dome for Cornwall’s Eden Project could finally be built. It was also announced that the practice’s long-awaited Bath Spa complex will open on August 7.
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Livingstone given power to green light schemes
Mayor of London Ken Livingstone will be given sweeping new planning powers, Department for Communities & Local Government secretary Ruth Kelly was set to announce yesterday, after BD went to press.