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NewsAdam wins planning for Hampshire community
Robert Adam’s practice Adam Architecture has won planning for a 211ha mixed-use development at Waterlooville in Hampshire.The development, Newlands, will contain 2,550 family homes as well as supporting social infrastructure including a community centre, land designated for healthcare and elderly care facilities, two primary schools and a nursery. As well ...
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NewsBasil Spence honoured by blue plaque
Coventry Cathedral designer Basil Spence has been honoured with an English Heritage blue plaque unveiled this morning (Wednesday) at his former home and office in north London.Spence, who died in 1976, was commissioned to design a new cathedral after the existing one was destroyed by German bombers during the second ...
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NewsColumbia University opens architecture outpost in Rio
New York architecture school expands global research project
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NewsHadid, Chipperfield and Nouvel shortlisted for Mies van der Rohe Award
Buildings by David Chipperfield, Zaha Hadid and Jean Nouvel have all been shortlisted for the 2011 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - the Mies van der Rohe Award.The shortlist of six also features Belgian practice MDMA, Paris-based Bernard Tschumi and Dutch company Koen van Velsen.They were shortlisted from 343 ...
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NewsCouncil backs Holl's Glasgow School of Art
Glasgow City Council’s planning committee has approved plans for Stephen Holl Architects’ new Glasgow School of Art building.The first phase of the £50 million scheme, designed with local practice JM Architects, is for a five-storey building opposite Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s building for the school.Holl said: “We are very pleased with ...
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NewsArchitects more optimistic about workloads, says RIBA survey
But concerns raised over fall in foreign projects
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NewsWandsworth hopeful of reviving more axed BSF schools
Wandsworth Council in south-west London is hoping to revive building schemes for two more schools axed under the BSF programme following a reprieve for two schools by AHMM and BDP.Work on the £70 million deal to rebuild Southfields Community College by BDP and AHMM’s Burntwood Secondary School will begin next ...
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NewsArchitects invited to design Joan Littlewood memorial in Stratford
Newham Council has launched a competition to create a memorial to the “mother of modern theatre” Joan Littlewood.The memorial will stand outside the Theatre Royal Stratford East and is part of the £14 million improvement works to the east London area’s public realm, alongside Studio Egret West’s sculpture The Shoal.Judges, ...
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NewsParadise Circus scheme forces Birmingham music school move
The Birmingham Conservatoire has vowed it will move to a new home after Glenn Howell’s £500 million Paradise Circus scheme cleared its final hurdle.The conservatoire’s current home at Paradise Place sits on the proposed site of the scheme for developer Argent. Earlier this month the government granted John Madin’s Birmingham ...
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NewsDanish bathing triumph for JDS Architects
Belgian practice JDS Architects has won first prize in a competition to design Faaborg Harbour Bath in the south of Fyn, Denmark.
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NewsDecision imminent on Stephen Holl’s Glasgow School of Art
Glasgow City Council’s planning committee is expected to approve Stephen Holl Architects’ proposals for the new Glasgow School of Art building when it meets tomorrow (Tuesday) .The £50 million scheme, designed with local practice JM Architects, is for a five-storey building opposite Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s building for the school.A report ...
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NewsPlasticine model of future city needs new home
A model depicting how a city may look in the future, made entirely of plasticine, needs a new home because its creator no longer has room for it.
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NewsTurn redundant high streets into housing, says think tank
Policy Exchange calls for planning reform
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NewsBDP launches sponsored cycle ride in memory of Jo Yeates
BDP has launched “Cycle for Jo”, a charity cycle ride, where employees from BDP studios all over the world will ride in relay teams between studio locations.The ride, which starts on May 6 at BDP’s London office, has been organised in memory of murdered landscape architect Joanna Yeates, who worked ...
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NewsGrimshaw power plant 'exemplary' says Cabe
Design watchdog praises Suffolk waste-to-energy facility proposal
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NewsCabe could become 'DeCabe'
New name emerges at New London Architecture seminar on design review
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NewsCabe slams Chapman Taylor's Liverpool Waters masterplan
Chapman Taylor’s proposed £5.5 billion regeneration of the Liverpool Docks has been criticised by Cabe for being “generic” and “not organised or expressed in a meaningful way”.In its report the quango said 1.3 million sq m project, known as Liverpool Waters, “does not provide confidence that a high quality scheme ...