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NewsNews Junkie: 08 and 09 December
This week: sad policemen, thick consultants, Facebook mortgage buddies, cocoa architectural models and a ravishing Marcus Binney.
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NewsSutherland Hussey wins Chinese Museum in international competition - images
Sutherland Hussey has won an international competition to design the £240m Chengdu City Museum.
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NewsMurray Dunlop's massive tower block scheme for River Clyde approved - images
A massive mixed use development of six buildings - including four 22-storey towers - was approved today by Glasgow City Council in a move that the architect calls "fundamental" to the city’s regeneration.The £180m scheme by Gordon Murray and Alan Dunlop Architects, which contains 853 apartments, will also feature retail ...
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NewsO'Donnell & Tuomey's Photographers Gallery wins planning - images
Celebrated Dublin architect O’Donnell & Tuomey has received planning permission for its new £16 million building for the Photographers Gallery in London.The six storey building, to be located in the heart of Soho off Oxford Street, will provide exhibition space, an online resource centre, education areas, a bookshop and a ...
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NewsHodder's Clissold Leisure Centre reopens - images
The first images of the completed Clissold Leisure Centre, designed by Stephen Hodder Associates, have been revealed.The long-awaited building, in Hackney, east London, is due to reopen on December 15, after being shut for four years to rectify a series of major problems client Hackney Council blames on design errors.The ...
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NewsNew school designs fail to make the grade, says Cabe
All but one of the first batch of secondary schools reviewed by Cabe have been deemed “unfit for purpose” by the design watchdog.
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NewsTerry Farrell enters the age of aquariums
The Biota! aquarium will form the centrepiece of the Silvertown Quays regeneration in east London.
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NewsFarrell to be Gateway design champion
£35 million scheme to improve area’s natural and urban environment
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NewsMJP brings cascading terraces to Harrow College
MacCormac Jamieson Pritchard has unveiled designs for One Harrow, a new building at Harrow College in north-west London.
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LDS wins Ferrier Estate masterplan
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands has scooped its biggest-ever residential masterplanning brief — to redevelop one of London’s most deprived council estates
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Make gets its hands on Olympic arena
Make has beaten firms including DRMM, Grimshaw and David Morley Architects to design the London 2012 Olympic handball arena.
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A&DS: standard is low
Architecture & Design Scotland has challenged clients on their ambivalent attitude to good architecture in the country
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NewsEast London gunpowder works conversion fires the imagination
Pollard Thomas Edwards has won planning permission for a £4 million conversion of a derelict gunpowder works in north-east London into a new office building.
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NewsBoris is ‘out of touch’ on towers
Critics slam mayoral candidate’s assault on London skyscrapers
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NewsRIBA blasts Arb appeal process as ‘inadequate’
The RIBA has dismissed Arb’s proposals to let architects challenge its decisions, calling them “woefully inadequate”
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NewsManchester ready to go to court over casino
Manchester City Council has signalled that it will take the government to a judicial review if it axes the city’s proposed super casino.
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NewsShenzhen library wins AIA prize
RMJM has won an American Institute of Architects prize for its university town library project in Shenzhen, China.
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Shepherd’s Bush Common facelift
A team led by landscape architect Whitelaw Turkington has won a £3.3 million competition to transform Shepherd’s Bush Common in west London.
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NewsLeeds keyworker homes use MMC
Design Group 3 Architects is designing 22 keyworker apartments in Headingley, Leeds, for Park Lane Properties