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NewsArb drafts in big hitter to settle Salisbury row
Board and rebel member both welcome corporate governance expert
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NewsSlough pair go it alone in shed land
Award winners frustrated with commercial property constraints
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‘No design vision’ in Belfast plan
A huge development plan aimed at transforming Belfast has been slammed by a leading city architect for lacking a “design vision” and coming too late.
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NewsHome sweet Home Office
As the Home Office continues to cause controversy with its policies on house arrest, staff were this week leaving their own prison of an office block to move into bright and airy new premises designed by Terry Farrell.
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RIBA design advisers to net 1,500 a day
The RIBA is to ask clients on public building projects such as schools and hospitals to pay as much as £1,500 a day for advice on how to achieve the best design.
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MP puts pressure on Fosters to join BDs 50/50 Campaign
A Labour MP and former chair of the all-party group on architecture this week urged Foster & Partners to finally back BD’s 50/50 Campaign for More Women in Architecture.
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Architect on manslaughter trial
Health and safety experts this week played down fears that the prosecution of an architect for manslaughter could affect the day-to-day work of the profession.
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NewsRising star
Young practice Arca has revealed exclusive designs for a £120 million skyscraper it claims will be the tallest residential building in Western Europe.
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English Heritage will take control of listing from April
Wide-ranging changes to the listing system in England and Wales are to come into effect this April.
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Gdansk competition in chaos
A prestigious competition in Poland that recently saw two young British practices awarded equal first prize has fallen into chaos after a local architect launched a public protest.
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NewsCelebrating the art of timber
Hawkins Brown has revealed designs for the redevelopment of an artists’ complex on a rural site near Cambridge.
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Mersey vision
RHWL has received planning permission for its £100 million St Paul’s Square development in Liverpool.
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Hopkins rues Dubais terrible new-builds
Leading British architect Michael Hopkins has branded the new architecture emerging in Dubai as “terrible” and claims it makes the task of designing a new building in the city “very hard”.
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NewsEllen who?
Forget Ellen McArthur’s world record, one of the most prestigious prizes in sailing remains up for grabs this year at the Little Britain Challenge Cup regatta held from September 8-11 at Cowes on the Isle of Wight.
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Shabby suburbs in need of regeneration, say experts
Architects, developers and masterplanners have called on the government to focus more on the plight of run-down suburbs rather than city centres.
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Shard signs up hotel group
Renzo Piano’s dramatic plans for a 70-storey tower next to London Bridge station took a step closer to reality last week when developer Sellar Properties signed a pre-letting agreement with a hotel group to take 18 floors.
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Mackintoshs Daily Record office to become cafe and pub
A derelict listed building in Glasgow designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh is to be refurbished and brought back into use.
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NewsPrescott bows to US
Rogers left out in the cold as Prescott makes new urbanism the hot topic at the Manchester summit