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HLM scoops £30m PFI Plymouth school project
HLM Architects and local partner Lacey Hickie & Caley have been awarded the £30 million Plymouth schools Private Finance Initiative project.
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Museum in timber row opens after BDP revamp
Glasgow’s A-listed Kelvingrove Museum reopened on Tuesday following its controversial £29 million refurbishment by BDP.
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NewsZedfactory sets out Chinese ambitions
Bill Dunster’s Zedfactory has won planning permission in Changsha, central China, for an innovative low-carbon residential building, which is currently out to tender.
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NewsDyson’s clean lines
This bold structure is the forthcoming James Dyson School of Design Innovation in Bath, by Wilkinson Eyre Architects.
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C of E to decide which churches will be saved
Heritage watchdogs have attacked the Church of England after its decision to abolish statutory body the Advisory Board for Redundant Churches.
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O’Donnell & Tuomey snap up photo centre
Stirling Prize nominee O’Donnell & Tuomey has been appointed to design its first building in England. The architect of the Lewis Glucksman Gallery at University College Cork, will create a new centre for London’s Photographers’ Gallery in Ramillies Street.
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New push for carbon-neutral homes
This week’s energy review outlined the government’s intention to step up its drive to make all new housing developments carbon-neutral, giving more support to on-site electricity generation such as mini-wind turbines and solar panels.
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NewsA long way from Bash Street
Reiach & Hall architects has won a competition to design a £20 million civic centre in Dundee. It beat a shortlist of three, including RMJM and Gordon Murray & Alan Dunlop Architects to design a replacement for the current council offices, which will be demolished as part of the city’s ...
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NewsEdge of Eden
Grimshaw Architects has celebrated an exceptional week after it emerged that its third dome for Cornwall’s Eden Project could finally be built. It was also announced that the practice’s long-awaited Bath Spa complex will open on August 7.
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Livingstone given power to green light schemes
Mayor of London Ken Livingstone will be given sweeping new planning powers, Department for Communities & Local Government secretary Ruth Kelly was set to announce yesterday, after BD went to press.
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Manser cries foul over hotel
A leading architecture practice has accused a hotel developer of using its designs without copyright in a case that highlights the confusion and waste surrounding major building projects.
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Barker may call for end to householder consent
Planning experts have called on economist Kate Barker to recommend that householder consents, which account for 55% of planning applications, are taken out of the planning system.
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NewsRogers proteges miss out on Lloyd's redesign
Unknown practice replaces Flacq in cost-cutting move at insurance firm
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NewsNew Alsop building set for green retrofit
The mayor of London’s advisers on climate change have revealed ambitious plans to retrofit Will Alsop’s Palestra office building to make it the most environmentally advanced in the country.
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Six vie to transform Swindon
Architects including Make, Marks Barfield and Fletcher Priest are bidding this week for a £300 million development to transform Swindon.
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NewsAedas beats RRP in bid for Welsh Assembly offices
Richard Rogers’ bid to design a second building for the Welsh Assembly has been foiled by Aedas Architects.
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Controversy over Welsh Assembly’s nomination
Red-faced bosses at Richard Rogers’ Welsh Assembly in Cardiff admitted they will spend the summer tackling ongoing snagging problems — just as the building has been nominated for the Prime Minister’s Better Public Building Award.