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Green light for Leeds regeneration plans
Planners have approved DLG Architects’ £30 million office and retail development in Leeds.
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RARA launches festival tours
The Redundant Architects Recreation Association (RARA) is to host barge tours of east London, brew its own beer and hold an exhibition of members’ work as part of next month’s London Festival of Architecture.
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Students win HTA placement
Two architectural students from Oxford Brookes University have won a student ideas competition to design a contemporary affordable housing scheme.
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NewsMartin replaces Firth at Capita
Clifford Martin (pictured) has been appointed head of Capita Architecture, the architecture division of Capita Symonds
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NewsNestlé’s spa objections water under the bridge
EK Architects’ £32 million redevelopment of the grade I listed spa complex at Buxton is due to start later this year following multinational Nestlé’s withdrawal of a long-standing objection.
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NewsPresidential candidate vows to tackle low pay
George Oldham’s bid for RIBA presidency puts earnings centre stage
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Make’s Olympic signpost stumbles at first hurdle
Developers have pledged to redouble efforts to realise plans by Make Architects for a landmark building which would signpost entry into London in time for the 2012 Olympics
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Oxford campus decision pending
Planners at Oxford City Council will make a final decision at the end of this month on whether to allow schemes by Bennetts Associates and Rafael Viñoly at Oxford University
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NewsNiemeyer leaves hospital
Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer (pictured) has left hospital after spending nearly two week being treated for a urinary infection.
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NewsShapps named as new housing minister
Grant Shapps has been named as the government’s new housing minister, according to reports.
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Three go head to head for Moscow hotel deal
Three practices are expected to find out as early as today who has won a prized deal to take over from Foster & Partners on the scheme to rebuild the Rossiya Hotel on the edge of Moscow’s Red Square.
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NewsDublin national stadium to open tomorrow
Populous and Scott Tallon Walker Architects’ 50,000-seat national rugby and football stadium in Dublin opens tomorrow (May 14), almost exactly three years after work began on site.
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Fears over planning job cuts in N Ireland
Plans to slash 300 jobs from the Northern Ireland Planning Service will lead to poor decisions that will damage the province’s built environment, it was claimed this week.
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NewsTesco blasts Cabe in development row
Tesco has accused Cabe of ignoring local residents after the design watchdog savaged its plans for a development in east London for a second time in three months.
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NewsBroadway Malyan £100m Edinburgh flats scheme rejected
Edinburgh Council has refused Broadway Malyan’s £100 million scheme to build over 700 flats on a brownfield site in the city.
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NewsShortlist announced for San Francisco Museum of Modern Art competition
David Adjaye, Foster & Partners, Snøhetta and Diller Scofidio & Renfro have all been selected as finalists in a competition to revamp the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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NewsGwyn Hall revamp begins
Work has started on Holder Mathias’s £7 million refurbishment of Gwyn Hall, a Victorian arts centre in Neath, Wales.
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Camden schools contracts announced
Walters & Cohen and Penoyre & Prasad have been awarded the job of designing two sample schools in Camden after partner BAM scooped the London borough’s £250 million Building Schools for the Future scheme.
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NewsArchitect and critic Dennis Sharp dies
Dennis Sharp, the architect, writer, teacher and critic, has died aged 76 after a two-year battle with lung cancer.