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Kingsdale given a drumming
De Rijke Marsh Morgan’s flagship Kingsdale School in south London was shown up by that old enemy, the great British weather, when the RIBA Awards judging panel visited last month.
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In-house contracts row hits Birmingham council
Birmingham City Council has launched an investigation into allegations that contracts have been awarded unfairly to its in-house architecture team.
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NewsFlying colours
Kohn Pedersen Fox has won an international competition to design a new international airport for Tianjin, the fourth-largest city in China.
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Demand doubles for architecture courses
The number of people applying to study architecture has almost doubled in the past five years, resulting in at least five new architecture courses being set up.
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Corporate death bill planned
A new offence of corporate manslaughter was included in the Queen’s mammoth 45-bill speech on Tuesday.
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A French lesson
A new conference promoting the French model of urbanism to the British is to take place in Lille this summer.
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Mills move on
MBLC Architects has won planning permission for an eight-storey mixed-use building in the historic Ancoats area of east Manchester.
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NewsHit and miss
Transport secretary Alistair Darling opened Wilkinson Eyre’s Pier 6 passenger bridge at Gatwick airport’s North Terminal (above) on Monday.A joint office venture by Make and RHWL has been granted planning permission by Camden council. The two-building development on Hampstead Road in north London is designed to set a new standard ...
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People
Celebrity developer Donald Trump is championing engineer Ken Gardner’s designs for Ground Zero in New York. Trump has branded Daniel Libeskind’s Freedom Tower, the winning design for Ground Zero, “disgusting”.Stanley Hall Cox MBE died on April 28, aged 77. Cox was a teacher at the Welsh School of Architecture and ...
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Powerplay
The Corporation of London cannot force Minerva to start work on the Grimshaw-designed Minerva Tower, a planning report has said. The report is a response to a demand from one of the corporation’s other committees that the developer either start on site or pays its Section 106 contributions for the ...
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Army of champions to push design across all key quangos
Every public agency and quango with a substantial building programme will have a design champion under plans drawn up by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, the Department for Culture, Media & Sport and Cabe.
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NewsArabian giant
A shimmering 255m-high tower in Abu Dhabi designed for the United Arab Emirates’ ministry of finance has been revealed by Make.
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Aedas secures 97m Sheffield school prize
Aedas Architects has won a £97 million PFI contract to build four new schools and a swimming pool for Sheffield City Council.
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NewsConran & Partners gets bigger in Japan with Tokyo win
Conran & Partners has revealed its competition-winning designs for Tokyo’s largest single urban regeneration project.
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Rescue bid for Lancashire terraces
Terraced housing at the centre of a row over demolition could be transformed into high-quality des-reses under proposals by a housing association.
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Library extension to go ahead
The British Library has won planning permission for a £12.5 million extension designed by Long & Kentish with Colin St John Wilson.