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NewsWalsall tree building starts on site
Work will start on site next week to create Bisset Adams’ £6.5 million office building for Walsall Housing Group.
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NewsGehry's mystery building for Sydney
Frank Gehry’s designs for a building to rival Sydney Opera House have been approved by the University of Technology Sydney (UTS).
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NewsPrime Minister’s better public building award shortlist unveiled
Rick Mather’s Ashmolean Museum, Reiach & Hall’s New Stobhill Hospital and AHMM’s Kentish Town Health Centre are among the 22 projects shortlisted for this year’s Prime Minister’s Better Public Building Award.
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NewsRetrofitting is best way to cut carbon emissions, says report
The best way to bring down carbon emissions from the built environment is to embark on a national programme of retrofitting, a major new report argues.
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NewsArchitects worse hit by recession, FT reports
Architects are still bearing the brunt of the job losses caused by the recession, the Financial Times reported today.
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NewsHats off to the architect
A pop-up exhibition of hats created by architects, artists and designers as part of the London Festival of Architecture is set to open tomorrow.
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NewsBoris seeks to scrap London Development Agency
The mayor of London has made an audacious bid to extend his powers by setting out proposals to scrap the London Development Agency and take over the functions of a range of other bodies.
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NewsLee Fitzgerald Architects refurbish bookshop at Oxford College
Lee Fitzgerald Architects has won planning permission to refurbish and adapt Gillespie Kidd & Coia’s grade II listed bookshop at Oxford University’s Wadham College.
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NewsCapita Symonds designs Roman Maryport visitor centre
Capita Symonds has won the contract to design and build a £6 million visitors’ centre at a Roman fort at Maryport in Cumbria.
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NewsTributes paid to Bill Mitchell, former architecture dean at MIT
Leading American architect Steven Holl has led tributes to Bill Mitchell, former dean of the MIT School of Architecture and BD columnist, who has died of cancer.
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NewsThe Wilberforce Health Centre
HLM’s £16 million health and well-being centre in Hull has started on site.
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NewsBoris calls for new financing model to enable Battersea tube extension
London mayor Boris Johnson has written to chancellor George Osborne urging him to introduce a novel form of financing seen as crucial to the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station.
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NewsQatari Diar deleted emails that harmed its barracks case, court told
A Qatari Diar executive deliberately destroyed emails that would have damaged the developer’s case against the Candy brothers, including several mentioning Prince Charles, the High Court was told today.
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NewsHanif Kara joins Architecture Foundation board
The engineer Hanif Kara has been appointed to the board of trustees of the Architecture Foundation.
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NewsBill Dunster and Donald Insall honoured by the Queen
Conservation architect Donald Insall and green pioneer, Bill Dunster, are among those recognised in the Queen’s birthday honours.
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NewsStudio Weave create 'dance podium' for Glastonbury
Studio Weave has been commissioned to create an installation for Glastonbury that will go on to tour music festivals around the country this summer.
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NewsPiercy Conner Architects’ Restello
An innovative residential block, the winner of Living Steel’s 2006 international architecture competition, has started on site in India.
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NewsHeritage fears for Stratford
English Heritage has attacked plans by Studio Egret West and Gross Max for Stratford town centre in the run-up to 2012.
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News'Market garden' plans for Chelsea Barracks
Chelsea Barracks will be transformed into a sustainable “market garden” complete with beehives, orchards, vegetable plots and a nuttery, under plans outlined by landscape architect Kim Wilkie.
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NewsPenrose comments hailed as ‘promising’
Leading architects have welcomed new architecture minister John Penrose’s first public comments on the profession as “promising”