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NewsNominations open for the Hackney Design Awards
Nominations for the Hackney Design Awards 2010 have opened, with any building completed in the borough since September 2008 eligible.
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NewsFears for court plans as axe falls on Birmingham
Denton Corker Marshall scheme indefinitely postponed in savings drive.
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NewsCurtain rises on three theatre schemes
New projects for Regent’s Park, Great Yarmouth and Bangor
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NewsCabe draws up report on store-led schemes
Cabe is putting the finishing touches to a major planning report it hopes will lead supermarkets to rethink the design quality of their major schemes
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NewsUse architects to drive up housing standards, Cabe argues
Every publicly funded housing project should involve a competition or interview to select an architect, Cabe’s chief executive has argued in a new report on how to drive up design quality.
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NewsSchools secretary in new attack on BSF architects
Education secretary Michael Gove has once again claimed that architects working on the £55 billion BSF programme represent a waste of taxpayers’ money.
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NewsNew practice emerges as Buschow Henley splits
Buschow Henley is to relaunch itself as Henley Halebrown Rorrison.
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NewsODA scraps main Olympic wind turbine
The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) has abandoned plans to install a 130m-high wind turbine on the Olympic park site in Stratford, east London, citing “limited commercial interest” in the project.
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NewsConstruction summer ends for Antarctic modules
All seven modules of the Halley VI Antarctic Research Station, designed by Hugh Broughton Architects and Aecom, are now erected and clad after a second successful construction season
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NewsPawson triumphs as Design Museum winner
Appointment marks the final stage for transformation of the listed Commonwealth Institute
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RTPI warns over cuts in N Ireland
The Royal Town Planning Institute has warned that the wide-ranging job cuts planned within the Planning Service in Northern Ireland could threaten the region’s economic recovery
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NewsMalcolm Fraser awarded the Architecture Grand Prix
Malcolm Fraser’s Scottish Ballet building in Glasgow has been awarded the Architecture Grand Prix in the Scottish Design Awards, despite failing to win an RIBA award or be nominated for the Doolan.
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NewsRIBA changes standard form of agreement
A long-running row between the Association of Consultant Architects and the RIBA has been resolved after the latter announced sweeping changes to its controversial client contract.
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NewsFarrell unveils proposals to double size of Ashford
Terry Farrell has unveiled proposals to develop the Kent town of Ashford with the aim of doubling its size by 2031
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NewsRussian leaders back opposition to RMJM’s Gazprom tower
Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has backed opponents of RMJM’s flagship Okhta Centre in St Petersburg in a major blow to the Gazprom tower project.
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NewsEntering a parallel world
Plans for a new conference and exhibition centre by Pringle Brandon and Wilkinson Eyre in the capital have been announced by mayor Boris Johnson
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Crossrail projects stay on track
The capital’s major transport infrastructure scheme is yet to be hit by public sector cuts, its backers insisted this week
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Southampton team chosen
Danish firm Gehl Architects, MJP Architects, Scott Brownrigg and Proctor & Matthews have all been lined up to work on a 10-year scheme to revamp Southampton