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NewsParry finds hidden oasis
Eric Parry Architects’ newly completed 18-storey Aldermanbury Square office development features Corten steel external columns and stainless steel cladding, with a brise soleil on intermediate floors to shade its east, south and west facades.
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NewsCarmody Groarke on John Lewis shortlist
Leeds scheme would be the Young Architect of Year’s largest commission yet
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NewsHedge fund takes 73% stake in SMC
SMC Group is set to begin a round of new acquisitions after hedge fund Ironshield Special Situations Master Fund took a 73% share in the business, becoming the majority shareholder.
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NewsGehry is chosen for Serpentine Pavilion
Frank Gehry is to design this year’s Serpentine Pavilion, the gallery has revealed.
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NewsLate start squeezes UK’s biennale plans
The British Pavilion at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale will have to be arranged in great haste, the British Council has warned, following this week’s appointment of a director for the event.
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Tory homes plan slammed
Housing design experts have slammed Conservative Party proposals to enforce the so-called Merton Rule nationwide, claiming the move would compromise delivery of zero-carbon homes.
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NewsDelays mean Alsop pavilion at Headingley misses Ashes
A proposed £17 million cricket pavilion designed by Will Alsop for Headingley Carnegie cricket stadium in Leeds will not be ready for next year’s Ashes series following a series of delays and design changes.
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NewsSave 25% off Building with steel
It's a steel: Each month Riba bookshop offers BD readers 25% off a recommended title. For January, it is Building with steel: Principles, details, examples.
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NewsStirling & Gowan’s building faces demolition
Another of the country’s most significant modernist buildings, Stirling & Gowan’s Leicester University engineering laboratory, could be partially demolished, the university signalled this week.
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Atkins fights St James’s overhaul
Atkins has attacked development plans for the St James’s area of central London as inappropriate, claiming the area is “in danger of losing its identity”.
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NewsChetwoods revises Hull scheme
The first phase of a mixed-use development in Hull by Chetwoods has been granted planning after the architect submitted revised proposals.
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Burns museum delayed to 2010
The Robert Burns International Museum, by Edinburgh firm Simpson & Brown, will not be ready by 2009, the 250th anniversary of the poet’s birth, because of funding delays.
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Government fails on green targets
An influential select committee has slammed the government for failing to meet its own sustainability targets for new and refurbished buildings sited on public land.
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PfS to link pupils to school design
Partnerships for Schools is to recommend that authorities entering the Building Schools for the Future programme involve pupils in the design process through initiatives such as the Sorrell Foundation’s Joined Up Design For Schools project.
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NewsHadid's Oxford union
Zaha Hadid Architects has revealed designs for an extension to the Middle East Centre at St Anthony’s College, Oxford.
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NewsLet the games begin at King’s College School’s new sports hall
Arup Associates has won a limited design competition for a new sports and music development at King’s College School in Cambridge.
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NewsNetwork Rail supports Smithfield
The battle over London’s Smithfield Market took a new twist this week after Network Rail failed to back the City of London’s assertion that the General Market building needs to be demolished in order to replace unsafe railway tunnels below.
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NewsTwo of three Europan 9 winners announced
Only two winners for Europan 9’s three UK sites were announced on Wednesday.
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Unesco still worried about Gazprom tower
Unesco has strongly denied reports it no longer has concerns about the impact of RMJM’s Gazprom tower on St Petersburg, saying it has been misrepresented.
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NewsNew-look Paddington
Fletcher Priest has finally won planning approval for this £150 million mixed-use scheme on North Wharf Road in Paddington, west London.