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Design for London is accused of favouritism
Design body denies lobby group’s claim that it is promoting a select group of architects
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NewsAgency brings back space standards
English Partnerships will enforce size minimums for housing on its land
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Eight firms shortlisted for King’s Cross housing
Eight practices including DRMM, Munkenbeck & Marshall, Panter Hudspith and Feilden Clegg Bradley have been shortlisted by developer Argent for the first residential schemes in the £2 billion regeneration of King’s Cross.
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No single architect for new eco-towns
England’s 10 eco-towns will feature a wide range of design styles rather than the “grand vision of a single architect”, housing minister Yvette Cooper pledged this week.
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NewsNo competition for Birmingham library
Birmingham’s design strategy has come under renewed fire after the city council admitted it would not hold an international competition for its new £190 million library.
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NewsRochester scheme’s gateway to a new world
This residential scheme by Alison Brooks Architects, Feilden Clegg Bradley and Maccreanor Lavington is one of four shortlisted for the first phase of Rochester Riverside, one of the most significant Thames Gateway schemes.
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NewsAllies and Morrison wins best of the best at the Architect of the Year Awards
All the winners of BD’s Architect of the Year Awards revealed
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NewsGlittering display
Allies & Morrison has celebrated an incredible week after scooping the top award at last night’s BD Architect of the Year Awards and unveiling a new £25 million performing arts centre in Hemel Hempstead.
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NewsSite change for Pompey stadium
Herzog & de Meuron’s proposed 36,000-seat stadium for Portsmouth FC (pictured) is to move after the Royal Navy expressed “operational and security concerns” over plans to build it near a naval base set to be home to two new aircraft carriers.
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Green council to redefine ‘offsite’
Revisions to the Code for Sustainable Homes which ban the use of offsite renewables for new homes have come under fire from the Green Building Council.
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Use cemeteries as parks, says Cabe
Graveyards should be replanned and redesigned to have a dual function as parks attractive to the general public, according to Cabe, which has described them as a “huge untapped resource”.
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NewsSkanska appointed at Bishopsgate
Skanska has won the contract to build the 202m-high, 46-storey Heron Tower (pictured) by Kohn Pederson Fox at Bishopsgate, central London.
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DCM wins award for courts centre
Denton Corker Marshall has won a top award for its £113 million Civil Justice Centre in Manchester (Works September 14).
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Riverbank revelation
Fletcher Priest Architects has revealed the first images of its huge “urban quarter” scheme planned for the north bank of the Thames in central London.
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Heatherwick sued over B of the Bang
Manchester City Council is to sue leading designer Thomas Heatherwick over his controversial B of the Bang sculpture.
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NewsBoathouse goes on site
Feilden & Mawson has gone on site with this mixed-use building which it hopes will become the focal point of the £40 million redevelopment of Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.
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NewsWaterloo is ripe for skyscrapers
London’s Waterloo is set to become home to a new generation of skyscrapers, according to mayor Ken Livingstone.