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NewsEnglish Heritage appeals to government for more cash
EH chairman Bruce-Lockhart challenges Purnell to be a “heritage hero” and reverse a decade of underfunding
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NewsDCMS funding boost must cover 'Cultural Olympics'
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport's funding will rise in line with inflation for the next three years, but the extra cash includes the cost of the 2012 "Cultural Olympiad", it was revealed today.The Department was told in Chancellor Alistair Darling's comprehensive spending review that its funding would increase ...
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NewsCullinan wins RIBA Gold Medal – at last
Architect Ted Cullinan has finally been awarded the RIBA Royal Gold Medal following a long campaign by his supporters. RIBA president Sunand Prasad – who has himself worked for Cullinan – made the announcement at today’s council meeting at Portland Place, citing Cullinan’s “inspirational practice”, teaching and keen awareness of ...
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Last chance to book your place at Thursday's Global Regeneration conference
UK regeneration experts are to be offered the opportunity to find out about international regeneration opportunities and showcase their work to potential customers in Asia, Russia and Eastern Europe during a groundbreaking government-organised conference. Overseas delegates drawn from China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Russia, Bulgaria, Poland and Romania will be ...
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NewsChipperfield edges it over Young Vic for Stirling victory
Haworth Tompkins’ Young Vic Theatre was pipped to the post by David Chipperfield’s Museum of Modern Literature, in Marbach am Neckar, to scoop the £20,000 Stirling Prize on Saturday night. The five members of the Stirling jury — Sunand Prasad, Tom Bloxham, Kieran Long, Louisa Hutton and Alan de Botton ...
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NewsSix winners of the RIBA special awards announced
The winners of the six RIBA special awards were also announced at the Stirling Prize ceremony on Saturday.
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NewsKoolhaas wins bdonline's Stirling poll
David Chipperfield may have won the Stirling judges' vote, but in BD's online poll it was Rem Koolhaas who you wanted to win.Koolhaas's Casa da Musica in Porto took 27.5% of the vote pushing Chipperfield's Museum of Modern Literature into second place with 23%. Glenn Howell's Savill Building in Windsor ...
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NewsLDA strategy failure risks Olympic legacy
Dynamic new boss sought to bring ‘focus and energy’ to London’s 2012 regeneration team
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NewsHive of activity in Manchester
Piercy Connor Architects has applied for outline planning permission for this striking 400-unit housing scheme in Manchester.
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NewsBattersea Power Station upgraded to grade II*
Revised listing status will open the door to English Heritage repair grants
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NewsSMC Group ‘teetering’ on the edge, say accountants
Troubled architectural SMC Group is “teetering” on the brink of a cash flow crisis, analysts are warning.
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City cash pledge boosts Crossrail
Architects working on plans for Crossrail, the troubled cross-London railway line, received a boost this week when the City of London agreed to provide up to £300 million in funding for the scheme.
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NewsFormer BP chief to sit on Foster’s board
Foster & Partners is to expand its international operations and infrastructure work following the appointment of former BP chief executive John Browne to its board of directors.
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Architecture festival grows to last a month
The London Festival of Architecture is to expand to become a month-long event next year, organiser Peter Murray has revealed.
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NewsSports centre regenerates brownfield Paris site
Brisac Gonzalez Architects has won a competition with this design for a new sports centre in Rue Pajol in Paris, close to the Gare du Nord.
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Second contractor ditches Olympic Aquatic Centre bid
German contractor Hochtief has become the second contractor in the space of a month to pull out of the contest to build Zaha Hadid’s Olympic Aquatic Centre.Balfour Beatty is now the only firm in the running for the contract, after Hochtief announced it had withdrawn, citing a busy workload. In ...
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Urban Splash scheme for Sheffield
Urban Splash has won planning permission for the first phase of its redevelopment of Sheffield’s Park Hill flats.
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NewsControversial academy go-ahead
Peter Clegg has defended a controversial west London city academy (model pictured) by Feilden Clegg Bradley in the face of sustained protests from residents.