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NewsEx construction minister to chair all-party group
A new group aiming to give more clout to the built environment profession in Westminster will be called the All Party Parliamentary Group for Excellence in the Built Environment
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NewsFerguson dismissive of Luder’s RIBA Council bid
George Ferguson has criticised fellow past RIBA president Owen Luder for his attack on Portland Place staff, telling him to “get back in his box”
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NewsPiano defends his ‘kind of miracle’
Renzo Piano has defended his controversial Central St Giles scheme, now finally completed eight years after the project began.
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NewsReed urges coalition to value architecture
RIBA president Ruth Reed has urged the new coalition government to give more value to the importance of architecture as it pursues its legislative programme for the coming year.
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Appeal for palace plans
A £1 million public appeal has been launched to help fund a revamp of Kensington Palace, which includes a controversial loggia by John Simpson.
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NewsVauxhall towers reborn
Designs for two £170 million towers on a vacant site beside Vauxhall roundabout in London have been unveiled by Squire & Partners, which hopes to submit a planning application this summer
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Broadway Malyan proposal
A major Broadway Malyan mixed-use scheme near London’s Tower Bridge will be submitted to Tower Hamlets Council for planning next month
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NewsFactory Quarter all wrapped up
A £71 million housing development in west London designed by BPTW, Living Architects and GHM has been completed
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Redcar plans ‘vertical pier’ for seafront revival
A “vertical pier” and creative centre are the highlights of a proposed £30 million revamp of the seafront at Redcar in north-east England
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NewsNordic beauty meets radical design in Norway airport plans
London architect Haptic has teamed up with Oslo practice Narud Stokke Wiig Architects to design an international airport in Norway
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NewsNew Bodleian revamp approved
Wilkinson Eyre has won planning for its proposed £78 million renovation of Oxford University’s New Bodleian Library.
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‘Super-hub’ initiative scrapped
London mayor Boris Johnson has shelved plans for suburban “super-hubs” in the outer London boroughs.
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NewsCoin Street challenge quashed
A legal challenge to Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands’ Coin Street development in central London has been thrown out by the Court of Appeal.
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NewsTesco given green light for east London development
Tesco has been given planning consent to build one of its new-style developments involving homes and community spaces – despite the plans being savaged by Cabe.
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NewsShortlist announced for Victoria & Albert Museum in Dundee
The winner of the Glasgow School of Art competition and the renamed office of OMA New York are among the six teams on the shortlist to design a landmark building for the Victoria & Albert Museum in Dundee.
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NewsMinister still getting to grips with new brief
New architecture minister John Penrose is expected to break his silence once he has got to grips with his brief after the shock decision to replace Ed Vaizey after just a few days in the job.
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NewsWinner announced to build new headquarters for Japan Tobacco International
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has won an international design competition to build a new headquarters for Japan Tobacco International in Geneva.
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The Decentralisation and Localism Bill
The Queen’s speech is rarely an edge-of-the-seat affair. But with a new government comes new policies and the announcement of the Decentralisation and Localism Bill by Her Majesty on Tuesday has prompted a mixed, and occasionally worried, response from the architectural and construction communities.