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NewsArresting copper
Multidisciplinary firm McBains Cooper has designed a contemporary police station in Cambourne, Cambridgeshire.
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NewsCheltenham gallery win
Oxford-based practice Berman Guedes Stretton has won an RIBA competition to design a £4 million extension to the Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum.
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Cabe cautious on Simpson’s Owen St
Cabe has criticised the quality of public space proposed for Ian Simpson Architects’ Owen Street scheme in the practice’s home city of Manchester.
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EH upgrades listed synagogue
Ernest Alfred Shennan’s 1936 New Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Liverpool has been upgraded to grade II* listed status.
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RIBA showcase on CPD hits road
The RIBA is to kick off its biggest programme to date of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Providers Network roadshows.
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News£14m Southwark scheme go-ahead
Alan Camp Architects has won planning approval for a £14 million, five-storey, mixed-use development in the London Borough of Southwark.
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NewsBerkshire home given green light
Gregory Phillips Architects has won planning permission for this modern family home near Reading, Berkshire.
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Venturi, Scott Brown and Hutton join Robin Hood Gardens campaign
LATEST: Over 500 join BD fight to rescue Smithson's estate PETITION: Add your name PLUS: Comment and interviews
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NewsTo the rescue of Robin Hood
Demolishing unpopular housing estates is simply a way of trying to obliterate the past rather than deal with it
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NewsSign up to save Robin Hood Gardens now!
For the next two weeks, Building Design will be collecting signatures in favour of listing Robin Hood Gardens before presenting our petition to English Heritage by March 7th.
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Zero-carbon homes face delivery issues
Government plans to roll out thousands of low and zero-carbon homes by 2016 have been dealt a serious blow by a National Trust report which says build quality and supply chain problems could jeopardise delivery.
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NewsMassie wins Reykjavik scheme
Graeme Massie Architects has won a competition to masterplan a 150ha site in Iceland’s capital city, Reykjavik, scooping €60,000 (£45,000) in the process.
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Arb member evaluation a waste of time and money, say reformers
Arb members have slammed plans to perform yearly evaluations of the board at an annual cost of £22,500, calling them an expensive waste of time.
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NewsOnly listing can save Robin Hood Gardens
BD launches campaign, spearheaded by Simon Smithson, to save his parents' 1972 Robin Hood Gardens estate
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NewsMcAslan’s Olympic Energy Centre Unveiled
John McAslan and Partners’ designs for an energy centre to power the Olympic development in east London were unveiled on Tuesday. The centre is part of a scheme to provide electricity, heating and cooling for the entire Olympic site and for the legacy community once the games have finished. ...
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NewsGraeme Massie wins Reykjavik masterplanning competition
Graeme Massie Architects has won a competition to masterplan a 150ha site in Iceland’s capital city, Reykjavik, scooping €60,000 (£45,000) in the process.The Edinburgh-based Yaya runner-up triumphed over French firm Jean Pierre Pranlas-Descours and Dutch architect Studio Irander in the final of the contest, triumphing over other practices from Australia, ...
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NewsPrince Charles labels building 'a dustbin'
The Prince of Wales has once again ruffled feathers in the architectural community by branding a building by Patel Taylor a "dustbin". Speaking to an audience of paratroopers about to leave for Afghanistan, he said: "I understand around 1,700 of you are crammed in what looks like a dustbin from ...
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NewsBerman Guedes Stretton wins Cheltenham Museum extension
Oxford-based practice Berman Guedes Stretton have won the competition to design a £4 million extension to the Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum. The new space will include a gallery for temporary exhibitions, educational facilities and a café. The judges said the winning scheme “possessed clarity of vision and an uncomplicated ...
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Last chance to apply for Riba ICE McAslan Bursary
Applications for the Riba ICE McAslan Bursary, which supports environmental or community-focused schemes in deprived areas of the UK or overseas close on March 3.Aimed at students, graduates and newly-qualified architects and engineers, it offers grants of up to £10,000 for projects to be carried out during 2008. Past recipients ...