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NewsV&A Dundee designs revealed
The V&A has unveiled the six shortlisted designs for its new outpost in Dundee.
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NewsAIA billings index reports slight improvement for US architects
The American Institute of Architects has reported a slight improvement in the results of its monthly architects billings index.
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NewsWork begins on HTA's Model Home project
Work has begun on the Model Home 2020 project, a pilot low-carbon housing scheme designed for Velux by HTA Architects.
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Arb chair Fraenkel reappointed to board
Arb chair Beatrice Fraenkel has been reappointed as lay member of the board by the Privy Council.
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NewsToyo Ito wins Praemium Imperiale
Toyo Ito has been awarded the Japanese Art Association’s Praemium Imperiale architecture laureate for 2010.
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NewsLottery boost for Pawson's Design Museum project
The Heritage Lottery Fund has awarded £300,000 towards the Design Museum’s relocation into the former Commonwealth Institute building.
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NewsShapps to make community right-to-build schemes easier
Housing minister Grant Shapps has lowered the proposed approval threshold for community right-to-build schemes from 90% to 75% following pressure from the public.
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NewsFoster's academy building is a nightmare, says school's boss
A flagship academy school, designed by Foster & Partners, has been branded a “nightmare” by the woman who runs it.
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NewsSteven Holl and MVVA win St Louis arch competition
A team led by New York architect MVVA and Steven Holl Architects has beaten rival entries including Foster’s to revamp the area surrounding Eero Saarinen’s St Louis Gateway Arch in Missouri, USA.
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NewsMurray suffers punctured lung on charity bike ride
Former BD Editor and NLA chairman Peter Murray has been taken to hospital after being injured in a bicycle accident while cycling to Brussels to raise money for charity.
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NewsFormer RMJM boss joins Graeme Massie
Brian Stewart, the former boss of RMJM, famous for leading work on the troubled Scottish Parliament building, has joined the award-winning Graeme Massie Architects.
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NewsArchial legal claims over unpaid fees revealed
Architect involved in at least four legal cases prior to going into administration
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NewsEnglish Heritage to survive bonfire of quangos, says report
English Heritage will survive the government’s cull of quangos and absorb two other organisations, according to a list compiled by the Cabinet Office this week.
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NewsHadid speaks up for South Bank Centre
Zaha Hadid has criticised as “unbelievable” the government’s decision not to list the South Bank Centre, insisting the 1960s complex deserved statutory protection
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NewsSheppard Robson bags £21 million Manchester Royal Eye Hospital scheme
Sheppard Robson has been appointed to design a new centre for bio-medical research at the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital.
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NewsAlsop school opens as Archial hits rocks
It has been a bittersweet week for Alsop Sparch, whose Michael Faraday School in Southwark, south London, reached completion as the practice’s parent company Archial announced it had entered into administration
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Portland firm in administration
One of the last suppliers of Portland stone has gone into administration. Stone Firms, which is based in Portland, Dorset, has been supplying the world-famous stone for more than 110 years.
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NewsCall for Arb to apologise after PII about-turn
Architects prosecuted by Arb for failing to provide proof of professional indemnity insurance (PII) have called for the regulator to make a public apology after it announced the scrapping of its annual “tick-box” monitoring of the profession
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NewsKPF’s Tour First hits new heights
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates’ Tour First skyscraper in La Défense has reached its highest point, creating a new landmark on the Paris skyline out of an existing one