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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.
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NewsPCKO unveils first council rented homes for 20 years
PCKO Architects has received Homes & Communities Agency funding for the first local authority houses for social rent to be built in 20 years.
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NewsGillespies wins major Beirut public realm project
Landscape and urban design firm Gillespies has won an international design competition to rejuvenate Beirut’s Roman Baths.
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NewsNicolas Sarkozy opens new Pompidou Centre in Metz
A new Pompidou Centre in France has been opened by the country’s president Nicolas Sarkozy.
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NewsFarrells replaces Foster’s on Folkestone scheme
A scheme to revamp a Kent seaside town has seen its third architect hired for the job in as many years.
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NewsRogers Stirk Harbour’s profits slump
Profits at Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners tumbled more than two-thirds last year as workloads in its key UK and North-American markets nosedived.
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NewsCZWG to turn Fulham bingo hall site into flats
CZWG has been given planning permission to turn a derelict bingo hall into an £8 million residential mixed-use scheme in west London.
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NewsOnline map highlights Manchester’s architecture
Taylor Young Architects and the Manchester Modernist Society have created an interactive online map of 20th century Manchester’s architectural landmarks.
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NewsTory education spokesman apologises to architects
Tory education spokesman Michael Gove has been forced to issue a grovelling apology to the profession after claiming that architects were “creaming off cash” under the government’s Building Schools for the Future programme.
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NewsGrimshaw excels with extension
Grimshaw’s £160 million scheme to expand the Excel exhibition centre in London’s Docklands is set to open next week
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NewsOlympic Park turbines branded as ‘greenwash’
Critics slam showpiece after it emerges wind farm will not run at night.
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NewsViñoly and Bennetts set for Oxford green light
Plans for two major Oxford University buildings look set to win planning consent next week, despite heated objection from conservation groups and questions over their funding status
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NewsMason allegation as three stand for RIBA president
Institute’s investigation into RIBA London hears claims it is manipulated by freemasons
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NewsElection sees victory for architecture spokesmen but defeat for architect candidates
The architecture spokesmen for all three main parties have retained their parliamentary seats and increased their majorities as the country deals with its first hung parliament since 1974.
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Jasper Conran joins AF board
Jasper Conran has been appointed to the board of trustees of the Architecture Foundation.
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CIOB contest to run until end May
The Chartered Institute of Building has given photographers until the end of the month to enter its competition The Art of Building.
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NewsLondon chair resigns as RIBA rejects call to act
Azar Djamali claimed she had been reduced to a “bystander in a morass of self-interested bickering” before resigning as the chair of RIBA London.
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NewsMacDonald to be A&DS chief exec
Architecture & Design Scotland has appointed Jim MacDonald as its chief executive.