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NewsAppointing the finger
Sheppard Robson has won planning permission for a £25 million new building for The University of Manchester. The new building, to be known as AMPPS, will bring together the university’s astronomy, mathematics, physics and photon science departments.
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Jools takes jazz to Edinburgh
TV host and musician Jools Holland is to open a jazz club in Edinburgh in a former BBC recording studio.
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EH rejects cinema listing
English Heritage has refused to list a thirties cinema in Bradford, leaving it open to demolition. The former cinema, by William Illingworth, is on a site earmarked for redevelopment in Will Alsop’s masterplan for the town.
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NewsSpotcheck: West Midlands
- On the Make A planning application has been submitted for a 17-storey mixed-use tower (right), designed by Ken Shuttleworth’s practice Make, to complete Birmingham’s Mailbox development. Plans for the 46,000sq m site off Commercial Street include a rooftop restaurant, apartments, a 50-bed boutique hotel, and offices, all held within ...
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Watered-down energy measures disappoint
The government has backed down on a key part of the long-awaited legislation to cut energy emissions from buildings.
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NewsAdam’s neo-classicism faces public style trial
In a sleepy Hampshire village, the battle lines are being drawn for a very public argument that could decide the future definition of neo-classical architecture.
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NewsRegatta madness
Clear skies, calm winds and can-can dancers mark this year’s Little Britain Challenge Cup. BD reports from the race
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NewsNew Orleans architects pledge to rebuild city
New Orleans’s exiled architects have pledged to return and help rebuild their city.
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NewsSurvivors’ guilt
Hundreds celebrated the life of Richard Feilden this week. BD asks his partners how they are coping without him
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East Anglia
Norwich city Heritage Open Day in Norwich opened a number of architectural gems to the public last week. Older buildings included the Strangers’ Club, the 14th-century Curat’s House, the medieval private home Queen of Hungary, and St Clements Church, with newer buildings including Grimshaw’s BBC headquarters at the Forum in ...
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NewsPiccadilly revitalisation
Austin-Smith Lord has applied for planning permission for a 23,000sq m development at 3 Piccadilly Place in Manchester.
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Ferguson rails against embassy
Former RIBA president George Ferguson has criticised new security barriers installed outside the US embassy in London and the British Embassy in Berlin for creating “banal urban deserts”.
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Mature approach
Architects must wake up to the ageing workforce and rethink their youth-friendly office designs
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Rogers in bid to halt white flight
A revamp of London’s public spaces is to be used in the fight against white flight — where middle class white people leave cities.
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Black designers could ‘help beat terror’
A member of the Architects’ Registration Board has linked the lack of black and minority ethnic architects with the recent terror attacks on London.
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NewsChipperfield’s stagecraft
David Chipperfield Architects has won an international competition to design a new theatre in the southern Spanish town of Estepona, Malaga.
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Prescott to spread green EU message
John Prescott plans to use Britain’s presidency of the European Union to franchise his sustainable communities plan across the continent.
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Holyrood on RIAS shortlist
The Scottish Parliament building has been shortlisted for Scotland’s top architecture prize, the RIAS Andrew Doolan award.