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Fosters fine art
Refurbishment of Norman Foster’s Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia in Norwich has started on site. The project, led once again by Foster & Partners, is the first major refurbishment of the arts centre since it was completed in 1978. The project will provide a ...
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Victorian housing needs to be restored not razed, warns EH
English Heritage has warned the government not to demolish nearly a million abandoned homes in the north of England and the Midlands, saying this could endanger the country’s historic environment.
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NewsHomes of learning
Berman Guedes Stretton has completed a residential block next to the famous 1960s Wolfson College, Oxford, designed by Powell & Moya. The L-shaped, three-storey student residential block includes 19 single rooms and nine flats for couples. The building features exposed concrete columns and granite facing panels to reflect the language ...
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Lib Dem MP wades into Bath Spa melee
The Bath Spa saga took a new twist this week when Bath MP Don Foster waded into the ongoing row between Grimshaw and contractor Mowlem.
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NewsSpotcheck: East Anglia
Stagnant Suffolk The head of the Suffolk Preservation Society, Richard Ward, has slammed volume housebuilders and companies such as KFC and supermarket chain Aldi for commissioning “mediocre” buildings that “slowly erode the county’s distinct identity.” Ward said Norman Foster’s 1975 Willis Faber & Dumas building in Ipswich was the last ...
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NewsUpdate: week 4
Four weeks into the campaign and we are almost halfway to reaching our target of 250 practices adopting the 50/50 Charter. We still need 132 more practices to sign up by International Women’s Day on March 8. Go to bdonline.co.uk/5050Practices joining this week include Feilden & Mawson, Niall McLaughlin Architects ...
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NewsMad over Barking
Failure of Barking Riverside could be a ‘catastrophe’ for government’s housing policy
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Im not Mr or Mrs, says transexual architect
A 70-year-old transsexual architect is giving Arb a headache by asking for her mail to be addressed without a title.
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NewsThe Elephantine barcode
De Rijke Marsh Morgan’s 31-home mixed-tenure scheme is the first housing development to be entered for planning permission as part of the £1.5 billion redevelopment of Elephant & Castle in south London.
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NewsBeauty contest ban at Elephant & Castle
Southwark Council to assemble its own design team for regeneration
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Alvaro Siza steps in to save Serpentine pavilion
The Serpentine Gallery in London has postponed plans for an eye-catching summer pavilion designed by Dutch practice MVRDV for a second time and announced a replacement scheme by Alvaro Siza.
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NewsCabe sides with Prescott on codes
Watchdog backs design codes to prevent ‘unsympathetic architecture’
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Wow factor will do a lot of damage, warns US urbanist
John Norquist, a government adviser and internationally renowned urbanist, will criticise Britain’s devotion to the “wow factor” and to iconic architecture at the Sustainable Communities Summit next week.
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Southwark loses window case
The windows on a celebrated 1950s south London housing estate were removed unnecessarily, a leasehold valuation tribunal has ruled.
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NewsTerraced triumph
Malcolm Fraser Architects has won a planning appeal for a cottage and 14 three-storey terraced houses in a conservation area in Dalkeith, on the outskirts of Edinburgh.
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Simpson tower is rejected
Ian Simpson’s dramatic proposal for a 51-storey apartment block in Liverpool has been refused planning permission.
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Study reveals how M&S split Colchester in two
Preparation of a new masterplan for one of Britain’s oldest towns has revealed that a 1960s shopping block split the town in two, creating a thriving shopping scene in the west but relatively deserted streets to the east.
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NewsWinter at Country Hall
RHWL has unveiled bold designs to convert a seven-storey atrium in the famous London landmark, County Hall, into a winter-themed public space.
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Tonne up for 50/50 Charter
The 50/50 campaign reached a major milestone this week, with more than 100 practices pledging to adopt BD’s charter for women.
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Cost review of Alsop Birmingham station
Replacement architect will value-engineer dropped architect’s designs for £350m New Street scheme