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Byker burgher burgles Broadway
Three architects from Broadway Malyan got more than they signed up for when the house they were staying in was broken into during a week’s residency in Byker as part of a design contest.
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NewsBrady Mallalieu stages park revival
This open-air theatre in Barra Park in Hayes, west London, is intended to restore the park to its former glory following decades of vandalism and neglect.
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Green light for Rover land plans
A Birmingham practice has won planning permission to turn redundant land previously owned by stricken car-maker MG Rover into a technology park and supermarket.
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Is it cos I is modern?
A luxurious home in Hampstead has been resubmitted for planning permission after attracting the ire of local resident Sacha Baron Cohen, aka Ali G.
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Capita growth continues with Norman & Dawbarn takeover
Multidisciplinary practice Norman & Dawbarn has been taken over by Capita Symonds after being forced into administration.
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NewsSteeling the show
BDP’s new purpose-built northern headquarters got the go-ahead this week from Manchester City Council.
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NewsCabe blast halts Salford skyscraper
Plans for the tallest residential building in western Europe have been shelved after a damning review by Cabe, which bluntly predicted it would be an “unpleasant place to live”.
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Poundbury plans cut down
A controversial housing scheme in Prince Charles’s model village, Poundbury, has been revised and resubmitted for planning permission after it was rejected last year.
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NewsTrongate revival
RMJM has submitted a £3.5 million scheme for a new apartment block in Trongate, Glasgow, for planning permission.
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NewsSpotcheck: East Midlands
Pod hopes Benson & Forsyth is waiting to hear if a £25 million development in Nottingham city centre has got the go-ahead after submitting it for planning approval earlier this month. The Pod, a seven storey building on the edge of the Lace Market, will house retail units, a hotel ...
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Offices hold key to housing shortage in Birmingham
Birmingham City Council is considering taking on redundant office space to tackle a housing shortage.
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NewsIn bed with Byker
The contenders for the Byker Estate revamp are following in the footsteps of its original architect Ralph Erskine and living with residents. Vikki Miller popped in to see how they were getting along
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NewsThe big fish gulps
As Capita Symonds swallows another firm, we ask what drives this profit-focused company
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NewsA kiss for Shanghai
Will Alsop is to design China’s answer to the London Eye. The £100 million structure, part of Alsop’s growing body of work in the Far East, has been dubbed the “Shanghai Kiss” and will be taller than the Eiffel Tower.
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NewsUK firms bid to rescue failed French icon
Orléans in new attempt to regenerate area around Calatrava bridge
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Top talents to tackle housing at Elephant & Castle site
A panel including some of the most promising small- and medium-sized practices in the UK has been assembled by Southwark council to design 1,000 new homes.
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NewsHit and miss
Rem Koolhaas and Ellen van Loon have won the Mies van der Rohe Award for the Netherlands Embassy in Berlin (pictured).Marks Barfield and Make are among the six practices on the shortlist for the final phase of Birmingham’s Mailbox development. They are up against Glenn Howells Architects; Associated Architects; ...
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Gillian Beckingham, the local authority architect who is being tried for manslaughter following an outbreak of legionnaire’s disease in Barrow, Cumbria, denied responsibility in court last week. The trial continues.Peter Cook (pictured) has been commissioned to design a new head-quarters for the Jet Propulsion Centre, part of NASA, on behalf ...