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Gateshead towers win award
Saltwell Towers in Gateshead has won the Society of Chief Architects of Local Authorities’ (Scala’s) Civic Building of the Year Award
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Lowest density scheme picked for Packington
Architect Pollard Thomas Edwards has beaten HTA and Feilden Clegg Bradley to be selected as preferred bidder to re-design north London’s Packington Estate.
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Embankment rejuvenation
London’s Victoria Embankment could be transformed into a promenade to rival the South Bank under a vision drawn up by MacCormac Jamieson Prichard for the Greater London Authority.
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Young Birmingham firm beats big names
Young Birmingham firm Kinetic AIU has won a competition to design the masterplan for a large waterside site in Eastside, central Birmingham.
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NewsA mix of styles down on the farm
This family home, proposed for land next to a brick grade II listed Georgian farmhouse in Dorking, Surrey, aims to balance traditional materials and vernacular architecture with modern detailing and clean lines.The £350,000 development, which recently won planning permission, is by local practice Stedman Blower Architects.The new 340sq m scheme, ...
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Shortlist drawn up to rebuild Broadmoor
BDP, Maap Architects, Swanke Hayden Connell and Oxford Architects are competing for the first phase of a £190 million plan to redevelop Broadmoor Hospital — home to some of the UK’s most notorious criminals.
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Two appointed for Trocadero revival
Sheppard Robson and international practice Moren Gregory have been appointed as architects on the latest revamp of London’s Trocadero building.
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NewsA Spiracle in Leeds
Make and Carey Jones Architects have revealed designs for St Paul’s Quarter in Leeds for developers HBG Properties and Barratt Homes.
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NewsStockton-on-sea
RyderHKS has released masterplan images of a £300 million mixed-use redevelopment of a former industrial area on the river Tees in Stockton.
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Liverpool snubs PFI schools
A political row has broken out over the government’s ambitious £2.2 billion secondary school building programme after Liverpool City Council raised major doubts about the initiative.
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Billy Bragg warns of racial tensions in the Gateway
Everyone’s been talking about the Urban Task Force’s claim that the white middle classes are deserting the cities in droves, but this week singer Billy Bragg highlighted a new threat of racial tension lurking in the Thames Gateway.Bragg, a Barking boy born and bred, told the Thames Gateway Forum there ...
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Green Gateway go-ahead
Government ready to rebrand Thames Gateway with Farrell’s rural renaissance vision
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Dawning of a new age
Rem Koolhaas and the mayor of Barcelona were among the architects and urbanists who gathered for last weekend’s Urban Age conference — a high powered summit on London’s future
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NewsHirst to realise unbuilt chapel
Artist hires White Cube architect to restore Gloucestershire gothic pile
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Housing is grim up north, says Cabe
New housing audit of the North says more than 90% of new homes still suffer from poor to average design
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NewsFoster in Heathrow running
Foster & Partners has drawn up early designs for a state-of-the-art terminal for Heathrow Airport, which is set to match the scale of the £4.2 billion Terminal 5 development.
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Gummer calls for Arb patch-up
Architects Registration Board critic John Gummer MP dealt a significant blow to the RIBA’s attempts to constrain the regulator’s powers this week by calling for a compromisebetween the two bodies.