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NewsAHMM to make a splash in Runcorn
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris has won Urban Splash's competition to design an outline scheme for the 1.5ha Canal Quarter in Runcorn's old town.
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NewsRIAS drops proposal to relocate
The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland has abandoned plans to relocate from its Rutland Square offices in Edinburgh. Four years after a working group was set up to investigate possible new homes, the RIAS has decided to stay put rather than go to Reiach & Hall's Evolution House in ...
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NewsWho will win your vote?
Nominations for the RIBA presidential race have now closed, and ballot papers will be landing on your doorstep any day now. Here, the three candidates describe in their own words their priorities if elected, and also show off one of their own favourite projects
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NewsJoining the union
This 2,250sq m HQ for the engineer trade union Prospect, by architect Austin-Smith Lord, was topped out last week.
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RyderHKS wins contract to design Newcastle libraries
Newcastle City Council has awarded a £40.2 million library PFI contract to a consortium led by the Kajima Corporation's European subsidiary with Ryder HKS as architect.
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Four groups shortlisted for delivery of Olympic park
A final shortlist of four consortiums has been announced by the Olympic Delivery Authority for the role of delivery partner on the Olympic Park.
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Affordable housing is the public's top issue
Access to affordable housing is the single biggest issue concerning the public and MPs, according to a new research commissioned by housing association Places for People.
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NewsPark life in Brum
Gardner Stewart Architects has been granted planning permission for its 112-apartment scheme, part of the Park Central urban regeneration project in central Birmingham.
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NewsSuffolk house keeps low profile
This house designed by CCD Architects for a conservation area in Aldeburgh in Suffolk, has been granted planning permission.
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Tesco pledges to consult locals over new stores
Supermarket behemoth Tesco has launched a publicity drive with a pledge to design its small Express stores to fit in better with local neighbourhoods.
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NewsViews from the Foredeck
David Chipperfield Architects has collaborated with Barcelona-based b720 Arquitectos to design the America's Cup Foredeck Building in Valencia, Spain, now nearing completion after an eight-month construction schedule.
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Cabe urges planners to reject bad designs
Cabe chief executive Richard Simmons has called for local planners to show more courage in refusing poorly designed schemes, saying he wants to "puncture the myth that design-based refusal will not be upheld at appeal".
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Title abuser convicted
An man who advertised using the slogan "architectyourhome" has been found guilty of breaching Section 20 of the Architects Act.
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NewsDesign a base camp for Everest
A design competition, billed as an architectural adventure, begins today. With three diverse briefs run in succession - first to design a base camp for Mount Everest, then an opera house for the Thames Gateway and finally a World Waters Embassy Headquarters in Niger - the Line of Sight ...
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Delays hit first project in schools programme
The first project in the government's £2.2 billion a year Building Schools for the Future programme has been sent back to the drawing board, highlighting the difficulties faced by the mammoth building programme.
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NewsTory vision of freedom
Gummer proposes scrapping planning restrictions and building regs to liberate design
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NewsArchitects relate their bespoke contract hell
Last week, BD reported on attempts by the RIBA and Construction Industry Council to develop standard contracts that would stop lawyers lining their pockets by developing cumbersome bespoke contracts that are unfair to architects (News May 12). This week, readers tell of their own experiences at the hands of lawyers:
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Olympic copyright claim
Lone architect Stephen Lawrence says designs for Olympic Park were based on his uncredited ideas