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NewsACA seizes on RIBA letter defending new contract
The Association of Consultant Architects has branded the RIBA’s review of its new standard contract as “extraordinary” after RIBA vice-president Jane Duncan wrote to all her members in an attempt to allay fears about the contract.
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NewsCall to dump design tsar
Leading developers have rejected the idea of a London “design tsar”, dismissing the post as “another bloody layer of bureaucracy”.
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Partnering guide to speed planning
A new guide to speed up planning partnerships between councils and developers has been published by planning minister Iain Wright.
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Six shortlisted for university homes
Six practices have been shortlisted from more than 100 entrants to an RIBA competition to design and build 400 student residences for Warwick University.
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NewsEnvironmental centre planned for former lime quarry
Halliday Clark Architects’ scheme to build an environmental centre in a disused quarry has been submitted to Yorkshire Dales National Park for detailed planning.
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Student village wins planning
Planning permission has been granted for a £37 million student village for the University of Wolverhampton, designed by Manchester-based O’Connell East Architects.
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Warehouses scheme approved
Liverpool City Council has granted planning permission for a scheme by Thinking Space to turn a series of grade II and grade II* listed tobacco warehouses in Stanley Dock into a mixed-use development with 918 apartments, 11,000sq m of office space and 2,800 sq m of exhibition space.
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NewsElephants pack their trunks
Foster & Partners’ new elephant house at Copenhagen Zoo was opened by the Danish Prince Consort on Tuesday.
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River Don project in for planning
Hopkins Architects has submitted a new sustainable business and residential scheme for Sheffield’s River Don Valley for outline planning.
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NewsIslington academy goes green
Swanke Hayden Connell Architects is to design a new academy and a special needs school for the London Borough of Islington.
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Calling all inspired photographers
Zumtobel is running its quirky Photographic Competition for the 12th year
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NewsODA in row over Aquatics Centre legacy provision
A row has broken out between the Olympic Delivery Authority and Newham Council over leisure water facilities as part of the legacy provisions associated with Zaha Hadid’s Aquatics Centre.
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NewsPoor designs kill off bus shelter contest
A competition to redesign London’s 12,000 bus shelters has been scrapped because the shortlisted schemes by firms including Conran & Partners, Ian Ritchie Architects and Arups were not considered good enough.
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Unhappy planners move to private sector
The Royal Town Planning Institute has slammed the “target culture” of local authority planning departments, saying it is driving employees to the private sector in search of job satisfaction.
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NewsStreet life on a new plane
Yaya winner Carmody Groarke has designed a temporary 160m-long skywalk to launch the Bloomsbury Hub of the London Festival of Architecture.
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Edaw to design waterside site
Chesterfield Borough Council has appointed Edaw to masterplan Chesterfield Waterside, a 16ha brownfield site adjacent to the town centre.
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NewsTropical medicine facility completed
Sheppard Robson’s Centre for Tropical & Infectious Diseases for the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has been completed.