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Fuksas touches down in Salford
Massimiliano Fuksas is the name on the lips of Salford folk this week after the celebrated Italian architect was selected to masterplan the regeneration of the city centre. Here’s something he made earlier — meeting rooms which form part of the Bortolo Nardini Group Headquarters in Bassano Del Grappa, which ...
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Mayor would refuse latest designs for Royal London
The designers of the controversial Royal London Hospital in east London are being forced back to the drawing board once again after London Mayor Ken Livingstone said this week he would not support the latest redesign.The scheme, by HOK Architects, has been mired in controversy since Cabe slammed the designs ...
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UCE decides not to axe its architecture school
The future of the University of Central England’s school of architecture has been secured.
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Top of the class
Aedas has been appointed by the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea to design a new building for Holland Park School in west London. The practice beat a shortlist also including BDP, Feilden Clegg Bradley, Wilkinson Eyre and Eric Parry. It will now work on a feasibility study for the ...
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Pasticcio revived
The 7m-high centrepiece of Sir John Soane’s Museum in London has been restored to its former glory after more than 100 years in storage.The Pasticcio, a large stone column featuring Roman and Norman masonry built in 1818 and demolished in 1896, was restored under the direction of Julian Harrap using ...
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Shed KM chosen for New Islington site
A prestigious competition to design the next phase of new housing on the Alsop-masterplanned Millennium Community site in east Manchester has been won by Liverpool practice Shed KM.Shed KM beat a shortlist also comprising de Rijke Marsh Morgan, Spacecraft Architects, Squire & Partners, Mecanoo Architects, Conran & Partners and Hawkins ...
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Arb in BT directories dispute over listings of architects
Arb has clashed with BT after accusing the company of wrongly listing individuals as architects in its business directories.
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Spotcheck: Scotland
Castle conversion The ruined Slains Castle in Aberdeenshire, reputed to have inspired Bram Stoker to write Dracula, is to be converted into holiday homes after Aberdeenshire council last week gave outline planning permission, subject to approval by the Scottish Executive and Scottish Natural Heritage. The £9 million scheme, designed by ...
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NewsThe inspectorate calls
A new recruitment drive hopes to lure architects into the planning inspectorate. Should you take up the challenge? asks Charlie Gates
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Nightingale breaks into top three with buy-up
Nightingale Associates this week became the third-largest architectural firm in the UK after it swallowed up the 53-strong Liverpool-based Derek Hicks & Thew Architects and swelled its ranks to more than 250 staff.
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NewsWas Lynch blaze arson?
Cause of fire that razed Patrick Lynch centre might never be known after vital clues lost
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RIBA to act on tropical timber row
The RIBA is planning an urgent summit to tackle growing controversy surrounding architects’ choice of timber after Greenpeace condemned another prestigious lottery-funded project for using endangered wood.
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Grimshaws Bath Spa in limbo
The Grimshaw-designed Bath Spa project is “in limbo”, Bath & North East Somerset Council admitted this week, with the architect and contractor Mowlem apparently locked in stalemate over how to deal with defects on the project.
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Green office increases energy use
A flagship environmentally friendly council building designed to be an exemplar of the latest in sustainable design consumes more energy than the buildings it replaced.
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AF looks to big and small for HQ
The biggest names in architecture are brushing shoulders with some young unknown practices in an impressive shortlist for the Architecture Foundation’s new London headquarters.
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NewsReviving the classics
Traditional architects are making a bid to reclaim the skyscraper after 50 years of modernist dominance.
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Fraser puzzled at snatched Edinburgh job
Scottish architect Malcolm Fraser has been left “puzzled” after his masterplan for the troubled Princes Street in Edinburgh was taken forward by Broadway Malyan rather than his own practice.
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NewsLondon flexes its muscles
London’s bid to stage the 2012 Olympic Games flexed its muscles this week as images were released of an 80,000-seat stadium featuring roof elements based on the bulging biceps of an athlete.