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Benson & Forsyth has beaten HBMA, Rick Mather and Stanton Williams to design a £25 million retail and leisure development in Nottingham city centre. A planning application will be made in March, with completion anticipated by the end of 2006.The £30 million transformation of Liverpool’s central library was thrown into ...
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Norman Foster (above) has been awarded the inaugural Great Briton award for outstanding achievement in the creative industries. The awards celebrate the international success of British individuals and were established by banking group Morgan Stanley in partnership with the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce, and ...
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Power play
John Prescott has hit back at the environmental audit committee, which claimed this week that his plans for housing growth did not take into account environmental costs. Speaking at the Sustainable Communities Summit in Manchester, he said: “That is the kind of nonsense you get from the chair of the ...
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Brown backs Prescott plans
Chancellor Gordon Brown this week moved to allay fears that government housing plans would not win sufficient Treasury funding by backing deputy prime minster John Prescott’s ambitious development strategy.
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Housing Corporation to value d
The government’s funding body for housing is to rate design quality above ease of delivery when handing out grants.
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English Partnerships secures team for 15,000 London homes
The national regeneration agency, English Partnerships, has selected three consortia including nine architects to design up to 15,000 new homes across London.
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Leisure goldmine
CZWG and Holder Mathias’s £300 million entertainment resort, promising more than 92,900sq m of entertainment facilities and the UK’s largest theatre outside London’s West End, has been submitted for outline planning permission. The YES! project, a 130ha resort near the Rother Valley Country Park in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, is on ...
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Architects fees are set to soar by 40%
Architects’ fees will rise by more than 40% in the next four years, according to market researchers.
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Hepworth plan still on despite grant loss
David Chipperfield Architects is confident its £23 million Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield will go ahead despite being turned down for a £7 million Heritage Lottery Fund grant last week.
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Fosters fine art
Refurbishment of Norman Foster’s Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia in Norwich has started on site. The project, led once again by Foster & Partners, is the first major refurbishment of the arts centre since it was completed in 1978. The project will provide a ...
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Victorian housing needs to be restored not razed, warns EH
English Heritage has warned the government not to demolish nearly a million abandoned homes in the north of England and the Midlands, saying this could endanger the country’s historic environment.
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NewsHomes of learning
Berman Guedes Stretton has completed a residential block next to the famous 1960s Wolfson College, Oxford, designed by Powell & Moya. The L-shaped, three-storey student residential block includes 19 single rooms and nine flats for couples. The building features exposed concrete columns and granite facing panels to reflect the language ...
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Lib Dem MP wades into Bath Spa melee
The Bath Spa saga took a new twist this week when Bath MP Don Foster waded into the ongoing row between Grimshaw and contractor Mowlem.
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NewsSpotcheck: East Anglia
Stagnant Suffolk The head of the Suffolk Preservation Society, Richard Ward, has slammed volume housebuilders and companies such as KFC and supermarket chain Aldi for commissioning “mediocre” buildings that “slowly erode the county’s distinct identity.” Ward said Norman Foster’s 1975 Willis Faber & Dumas building in Ipswich was the last ...
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NewsUpdate: week 4
Four weeks into the campaign and we are almost halfway to reaching our target of 250 practices adopting the 50/50 Charter. We still need 132 more practices to sign up by International Women’s Day on March 8. Go to bdonline.co.uk/5050Practices joining this week include Feilden & Mawson, Niall McLaughlin Architects ...
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NewsMad over Barking
Failure of Barking Riverside could be a ‘catastrophe’ for government’s housing policy
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Im not Mr or Mrs, says transexual architect
A 70-year-old transsexual architect is giving Arb a headache by asking for her mail to be addressed without a title.
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NewsThe Elephantine barcode
De Rijke Marsh Morgan’s 31-home mixed-tenure scheme is the first housing development to be entered for planning permission as part of the £1.5 billion redevelopment of Elephant & Castle in south London.
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NewsBeauty contest ban at Elephant & Castle
Southwark Council to assemble its own design team for regeneration
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Alvaro Siza steps in to save Serpentine pavilion
The Serpentine Gallery in London has postponed plans for an eye-catching summer pavilion designed by Dutch practice MVRDV for a second time and announced a replacement scheme by Alvaro Siza.