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Future in doubt as restructuring puts BBC Music Box on pause
Foreign Office Architects’ Music Box project for the BBC was in doubt this week, as consultants on the scheme revealed it was on hold amid cuts and restructuring.
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Hit and miss
Richard Rogers Partnership’s Convoys Wharf scheme in east London has won planning permission, despite widespread local opposition. The development, for media mogul Rupert Murdoch, features three residential towers of 40, 32 and 26 storeys.The Twentieth Century Society has been denied access to Giles Gilbert Scott’s iconic brewery buildings in Park ...
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Oren Lieberman has been appointed as the new head of the Canterbury School of Architecture. Lieberman, a lecturer at Strathclyde University, will replace Don Gray. Gray left KIAD earlier this year to head up a new rival school of architecture at the University of Kent. The RIBA is calling for ...
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Powerplay
RIBA president George Ferguson was at an international architecture conference in Trieste, Italy, last week. The conference, which was also attended by Richard Rogers, was convened to discuss universal recognition for architects working outside their country of origin in Europe.Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell has announced that the Live 8 concert, ...
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NewsA paler shade of green
Changes to intended use mean eco-buildings might not be as environmentally friendly as architects claim
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Overruns fail to derail Lift health scheme
The government’s spending watchdog has given its approval to the controversial £1.2 billion local improvement finance trust (Lift) healthcare programme, despite massive delays and cost overruns on the first projects.
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NewsBirminghams rough diamond
M3 Architects has revealed images of a dramatic new mixed-use scheme in Birmingham, dubbed a “rough diamond” in the city’s Jewellery Quarter.
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Birmingham library options row rages
Political infighting over Richard Rogers’ plans for a library in Birmingham continued this week, with opposition councillors calling on council leaders to publish a report into the viability of the scheme.
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NewsAll-singing, all-dancing garden shed
Young architectural practice AOC has revealed images of its first completed building — a folly for Billy Elliot film director Stephen Daldry.
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Boycott threat for Liverpool
A group of high-profile property developers has slammed Liverpool City Council’s “chaotic” planning department and threatened to build elsewhere if it doesn’t improve.
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NewsAccess all areas
Glasgow-based practice Graeme Massie Architects has won an RIBA competition to redesign Bonn Square in Oxford.
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English Partnerships submits plans for first 60k homes
English Partnerships has submitted plans for the prototype £60,000 house to be built at Allerton Bywater in Leeds.
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Winchester planners failing in duty of care
Winchester City Council’s planning department is struggling with low morale and a funding shortage after the government halved its planning delivery grant because of poor performance.
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NewsDivine intervention
EPR Architects has won planning permission for a new church, community facilities and affordable housing on the Isle of Dogs in east London.
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NewsA dazzling display of detritus
Herzog & de Meuron has turned the Turbine Hall into a jumble sale of their most extraordinary ideas
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Embankment plan will not drive out traffic
The Victoria Embankment will remain open to traffic under plans drawn up by MacCormac Jamieson Prichard for the mayor of London.
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Edinburgh divided on tall possibilities
A council investigation into the possibility of building skyscrapers in Edinburgh is causing ructions among the city’s architects.
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NewsThe Future for our children
Future Systems has designed this £1.8 million nursery and adult learning centre, dubbed “Art Baby” and shown here for the first time.