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NewsMather gets cultural
Rick Mather Architects has unveiled designs for a new gallery and cultural centre in Eastbourne. The £8 million project, due to start on site in August, will provide a home for the nationally acclaimed Towner Art Gallery collection, as well as new conference halls, community rooms and a cafe. The ...
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Liverpool garden festival site set to bloom again
Carey Jones Architects’ masterplan to bring the long-neglected 33ha festival gardens site in Liverpool back into use after 20 years is close to being entered for planning permission.
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NewsBridge of lights
Steven Lenczner Architects has won planning permission for a bold art installation on Wandsworth Bridge in London. The four light sculptures, placed on existing plinths, change colour according to the level of the tide, and are designed to create a landmark for traffic crossing the bridge. The scheme won permission ...
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NewsSpotcheck: North-west
Speedy Sky Benoy’s innovative Sky Bar in Manchester’s Triangle shopping precinct will soon be open to the pubic, after being built in only eight weeks. The steel frame of the £1 million, two-storey building was manufactured off site and transported to the Triangle for re-assembly. The building is supported by ...
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Developers line up for Elephant & Castle
Southwark council has drawn up a shortlist of major developers for the £1.5 billion regeneration of Elephant & Castle in south London.
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Probe into Swiss Re panel fall
Foster & Partners is assisting an investigation into why a glass panel fell off its Swiss Re building in central London and dropped 28 storeys to the ground.
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Retrial for manslaughter case
A council architect accused of the manslaughter of seven people in the UK’s worst outbreak of legionnaires’ disease is to face a retrial.
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NewsGehrys the man for Marge on Simpsons
The architectural profession reached dizzying new heights of public recognition this month when its first member joined the ranks of politicians, musicians and Hollywood stars and played himself in The Simpsons.
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NewsIts a wrap
French architect Francis Soler has completed a E71 million (£48 million) headquarters for the French Ministry of Culture & Communication in Paris.
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Green expert snubbed
An acknowledged national expert on sustainable building materials has been excluded from government deliberations on the Sustainable Buildings Code, amid growing concern at architects’ lack of influence.
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Infection warning on hospital ‘barn’ theatres
An innovative operating theatre designed by Nightingale Associates for Broadgreen Hospital in Liverpool has been criticised by a leading NHS technical consultant because it could increase the risk of infection.
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Ebayers bid to smash Mies masterpiece
It’s not so much Mies van der Rohe as Mies vandal Rohe. For a classicist with a passionate dislike of modernist architecture, this could be the perfect chance to vent your rage.
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Lacy image for Nottingham
Caruso St John’s £13 million Nottingham Centre for Visual & Live Art has been submitted for planning permission.
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NewsHit and Miss
Grimshaw has won planning permission for the redevelopment of the former London Stock Exchange building in the City of London (pictured). The scheme, developed by Hammerson, involves the existing Stock Exchange tower being completely reclad.The merger between Aukett and Fitzroy Robinson has won final approval from shareholders. The merger, which ...
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People
Santiago Calatrava is the only architect to feature in Time Magazine’s list of the 100 most important people in the world. Calatrava, praised for his “transcendent spaces that uplift the human spirit”, was listed alongside actress Hilary Swank, Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama.Victorian architect Edward William Godwin is to ...
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Power play
London mayor Ken Livingstone this week published draft guidance on strategic views in the capital for consultation. The guidance includes 26 designated views of strategic importance to help guide development of tall buildings and their impact on London’s landmarks. Consultation closes on July 15.London practice Project Orange has designed a ...
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Facade art depicts wrong city
Wolverhampton rejects installation celebrating Birmingham society
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NewsRaising the roof game
Architects innovative product designs will be on show this month at an exhibition featuring this climatically controlled enclosure by Fraser Brown Mackenna Architects.
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Election 05
The Liberal Democrat manifesto has pledged to introduce flat VAT to encourage developers to repair and reuse empty buildings and brownfield land.