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NewsAquatic Centre: swan dive or belly flop?
The Olympic Delivery Authority has denied that Zaha Hadid’s Aquatic Centre has been compromised by legacy concerns, despite the addition of two massive seating stands for use during the 2012 games.
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‘Significant’ shortage of skills to cost firms dear
A survey of leading practices has revealed the shocking scale of the skills shortage facing the architectural profession, with respondents expecting annual staff turnover to rise to an average of more than 70% in the next five years.
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NewsStumbling on H-blocks
HOK Sport has revealed images of its controversial proposals for a multi-sport stadium to stand on the former site of Belfast’s Maze Prison.
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NewsFramework plan alarms RIBA
Architects may have to bid for hundreds of millions of pounds worth of work through a huge network of framework agreements that could cover all of England.
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Climate change demands
The RIBA has written to Gordon Brown, calling for a binding agreement to tackle climate change.
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NewsMinister U-turns on Giant’s Causeway
A dramatic U-turn by Northern Ireland environment minister Arlene Foster this week cleared the way for Heneghan Peng’s Giant’s Causeway visitor centre.
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NewsHotel’s sandstone facade fits in to Glasgow’s material world
Edinburgh architect Allan Murray has submitted this four-star, 200-bed hotel in Glasgow for planning.
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Lottery blow to Manchester museum
City’s ‘Guggenheim’ ambitions felled as funds go to historic ships
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NewsEgret West scoops £75m Clapham scheme
Studio Egret West has beaten Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and S&P Architects to a £75 million mixed-use scheme in south-west London.
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NewsChester tower in landmark refurb
McCormick Architecture has won full planning for a mixed-use scheme in Chester which includes refurbishing the city’s tallest building — the grade II listed, 51m-high Lead Shot Tower, empty since 1986.
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Kids’ hospital gets trials unit
Health secretary Alan Johnson has officially opened a medical research unit at Sheffield Children’s Hospital, designed by local practice Race Cottam Associates.
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Haringey plaque to WJ Collins
Haringey Council has commemorated architect and property developer William Jeffries Collins (1856-1936), a former resident of the north London borough.
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NewsStudio Egret West’s tower ‘comb’
The first images of Studio Egret West’s design (below) to remodel the base of Richard Seifert’s iconic Tower 42, also known as the Nat West tower, in the City of London have been unveiled.
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NewsHKS reworks Liverpool stadium
HKS has reworked its designs for Liverpool Football Club’s new £310 million stadium after the club confirmed that the practice was still on board.
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DSDHA tops out Guildford school
A new-build school at Guildford in Surrey by DSDHA has been topped out.
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NewsCambridge gets little bit of Malmö
A residential scheme for Cambridge (above) by HTA Architects has won planning permission after an appeal.
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Clash at EH’s CO2 cuts conference
Speakers at English Heritage’s conference on climate change in central London last week clashed over CO2 cuts in historic buildings.
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NewsArchitects blast RMJM’s docks plan
Leading architects have joined a campaign against RMJM’s 144ha Leith Docks masterplan, calling for a radical rethink before planning approval is given by Edinburgh City Council.
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Page & Park wins Scottish portrait gallery refurb
Glasgow-based Page & Park has won the contract for the £18 million refurbishment of Edinburgh’s Scottish National Portrait Gallery.