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Southwark window outrage
Angry residents at a celebrated 1950s housing estate in south London are taking action against Southwark Council for ripping out original timber windows and replacing them with uPVC.
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NewsCool Zaha sails up Clyde
Zaha Hadid Architects will design Glasgow’s new £50 million Riverside Museum, a building that would be the Pritzker Prize-winning architect’s largest British project to date.
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Fighting fund for Salisbury
A group of architects has launched a campaign to raise £120,000 to finance rebel board member Ian Salisbury’s legal battle with the Architects Registration Board.
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NewsDreaming in blue
Proctor & Matthews’ 100-bed Travelodge hotel in Cambridge has opened for business.
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Rogers to retire... in 10 years
Richard Rogers this week raised the spectre of him heading up his practice into his 80s.
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NewsHit and miss
- Lab Architecture Studio and Peter Inskip & Peter Jenkins Architects have made it to the final two in a competition to design a new Museum of Bristol. The original shortlist included Alsop Architects, Allies & Morrison, David Chipperfield Architects and Wilkinson Eyre. A winner will be announced at the ...
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People
- Sean Connery (above) this week used a radio interview to launch an outspoken attack on press reporting of Holyrood. Connery said the media was overly negative and suggested legislation to limit press criticism. - Srank Duffy, a founding partner of design consultancy DEGW, has received the President’s Award from ...
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Power play
- The RIBA Council has approved a plan to allow architecture students free membership of the institute. The initiative will cover more than 10,000 students on RIBA-validated courses.- Tewer than six candidates were due to be interviewed yesterday for the job of Cabe chairman. Former environment secretary John Gummer confirmed ...
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Secret talks failed to save Fourth Grace
The consortium behind the scrapped Fourth Grace project in Liverpool held secret talks with the owners of the site in a last-ditch effort to save the scheme.
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European research group is launched
A major pan-European construction research body was launched this week with a mission to tap into millions of euros of European Union research funding.
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NewsBusiness school
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris has won planning permission for a new academy-style secondary school in Westminster.
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New buildings shunned in favourites poll
British people love heritage buildings and dislike landmark modern architecture, according to a national poll published this week.
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Modernist master calls it a day at 98
At the age of 98, one of modern architecture’s most influential exponents, Philip Johnson, has announced that he is to retire.
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NewsWelsh sun trap
Capita Percy Thomas has completed an innovative £10.7 million electronics incubator in North Wales powered by solar panels. The Optic Building in St Asaph, Clwyd, features one of the largest installations of photovoltaic cells in the world. The 1,000sq m of cells, which form a black, curved facade down the ...
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Cabe survey says most new housing is badly designed
Cabe has called for more government guidance on “good architecture” after a national housing audit found that most new developments were poorly designed.
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NewsHandy for a gallery
Conran & Partners has won planning permission for a new residential tower in Salford Quays, opposite the Lowry Centre and the Imperial War Museum.
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Councils cold feet threaten Bradfords own Eden Project
Bold plans for an Eden Project-style attraction in Bradford could be scrapped if crisis talks this week fail to win over the council.
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NewsSpotcheck: East Anglia
Facelift to Lasdun blocksDenys Lasdun’s grade II listed Ziggurat student residences at the University of East Anglia are to get a £4 million facelift. The iconic 1960s blocks have not been refurbished for 40 years. The refurbishment could also see students return to the balcony roofs, which were closed five ...
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NewsIs this a fight to the death?
As the power struggle between the RIBA and Arb becomes bloodier, Zoë Blackler asks...