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Listed school could be demolished for housing
Lambeth council is considering delisting the grade II Lilian Bayliss School in south London, in a bid to free up the 2.5ha site for new housing. The move has raised concern at heritage group the Twentieth Century Society.
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Birmingham spreads the word on regeneration
Birmingham City Council’s design adviser Philip Singleton has established a design forum to spread the city’s regeneration lesson across the country.Singleton decided to establish the City Design Forum after a high number of enquiries from other UK cities about Birmingham’s successful inner city regeneration projects.Birmingham has won praise for its ...
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Spacelab’s cool HQ
London practice Spacelab UK has completed its largest project to date in Ilford, east London.
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Foster and Pringle sign to aid charity
Norman Foster and new RIBA president Jack Pringle have signed up as founding trustees of a new charity aimed at sending architects into disaster areas to help with relief efforts.
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NewsTrees of Knowledge
Birmingham practice Sjolander da Cruz has unveiled images of a market square pavilion to be built in the town of Atherstone in north Warwickshire.
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NewsKurokawa’s capsule homes under threat
Homeowners in Kisho Kuro-kawa’s seminal modular housing project in Tokyo are so disgruntled with the building that they are plotting its demolition.
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NewsWalk in the Parc
Holder Mathias Architects has submitted a new £60 million Center Parcs complex for planning permission.
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NewsJump to it
Images of a striking 380m-long ski jump have been revealed by London-based architects m2r.
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BBC procurement process set to begin across 140 properties
The BBC announced plans this week to procure architects to work on construction projects across its UK portfolio of 140 properties.
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Dozen architects needed to join our ‘Cool Wall’ contest
Exhibition 100% Detail and BD are looking for exciting new projects to debate in a quick-fire public forum.
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NewsIn the round
A new apartment block designed by Manchester practice Andrew Wallace Architects is under construction in the Ancoats area of Manchester. The seven-storey, £5 million circular housing scheme overlooks the New Islington development in east Manchester masterplanned
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Facing the enemy
Is Humphrey Lloyd the profession’s protector or architects’ enemy number one? BD visits the Arb chief expecting a warrior, but instead finding a man quietly impressed by architecture
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Simpsons contest boycott call
Ian Simpson has clashed with other leading architects in the North West after his call for a boycott of an invited competition was rebuffed.Developer Lever Street Properties said this week that practices BDP, MBLC and Pollard Thomas Edwards had all submitted entries to its competition for a mixed-use scheme in ...
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Is it really a Hawksmoor?
The RIBA’s inspection of recently acquired model sparks mystery over Easton Neston’s true designer
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Glenn Howells lands 300m Sheffield deal
Mixed-use West Bar project to have ‘impact similar to King’s Cross’
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Sites vie to host BBC in North
The race is on to provide the new home for the BBC in Manchester, with schemes by Massimiliano Fuksas, Ian Simpson and John McAslan tipped as contenders.
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New report champions high-density suburbia
Residents could enjoy the benefits of urban living in a suburban setting if housebuilders raised densities above 50 dwellings per ha, according to a leading architectural practice.MacCormac Jamieson Prichard has published a report that claims high densities in suburban areas would slash infrastructure costs and improve access to amenities, but ...
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NewsDispute puts Dracula castles future at stake
Plans to resurrect the crumbling Scottish castle that inspired Bram Stoker’s Dracula novel could be delayed because of a dispute between the client and consultants.