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NewsInside the Great Glass Grub
Foster & Partners’ Sage Gateshead music centre, dubbed the “Great Glass Grub”, opens next weekend.The £70 million Tyneside music centre features this main concourse overlooking the river Tyne, surrounded by a 100m-long ribbon of coloured glass designed by artist Kate Maestri. The Sage Gateshead, which is the first performing arts ...
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AA needs big hitter, says Hadid
Zaha Hadid has called for the Architectural Association to appoint a big-name architect as its new chairman, though she quashed speculation she was interested in the job herself.
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NewsLearning for all in a hilltop hideaway
Format Milton Architects has gained planning permission for a £20 million redevelopment of St John’s School & Community College in Marlborough, Wiltshire.
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NewsSpotcheck: Northern Ireland
Belfast push The first major assessment of development opportunities in Belfast for nearly 20 years was launched last week. The Belfast Metropolitan Plan, which is now on display at the Royal Society of Ulster Architects’ new architecture centre, Place, outlines proposals for 63,000 new homes by 2015, commercial centres and ...
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Ian Simpson attacks ordinary architecture
Rising star of commercial architecture Ian Simpson has slammed architects for filling Britain’s cities with “ordinary” buildings, and immediately won the backing of RIBA president George Ferguson.
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NewsSalvation complete
A new headquarters for the Salvation Army in London’s Queen Victoria Street designed by Sheppard Robson has been completed. The 36,770sq m scheme, between St Paul’s Cathedral and the Millennium Bridge, also includes a £31 million speculative office development next door. Sheppard Robson worked with structural engineer Arup on the ...
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NewsHope springs for Cambridge
The battle over architecture at Cambridge University took a dramatic turn this week in favour of the coalition of students and architects fighting to save the prestigious department.
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Ho, hey! Architectures here to stay
“An Architect is for Life, Not just for Christmas,” read one of the drier placards held aloft in the bright sunlight at Cambridge on Monday.
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Aukett close to merger with Fitzroy Robinson
Aukett’s quest to merge with another practice appears nearly over after it confirmed it was negotiating with Fitzroy Robinson.
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Sorrell tipped to be next Cabe chairman
The next chairman of the Commission for Architecture & the Built Environment will be named “imminently” and a senior government source has tipped former Design Council chairman John Sorrell for the job.
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Fosters partners hand over
Six senior architects at Foster & Partners have been handed day-to-day control of the business in a move that sees the senior partners take on overseeing roles.
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NewsZahas wonder of science
Construction is progressing on Zaha Hadid’s complex £23 million Wolfsburg Science Centre in Saxony, Germany.
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Ellipse axed in face of opposition
Grimshaw’s proposed £30 million extension of the Royal College of Art has been abandoned amid fears that defending the scheme against opposition will prove too expensive.
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NewsSandbag triumph
The Sandbag House is one of seven projects to win the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, which recognises outstanding design in Islamic societies.
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Heritage specialist practices merge
Heritage specialist Purcell Miller Tritton has merged with the practice of St Paul’s Cathedral’s surveyor in a move that cements its role on some the British Isles’ leading cathedrals.
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Hodder faces £5m Clissold legal claim
The legal claim against Hodder Associates over the troubled Clissold Leisure Centre in north London is worth £5 million, lawyers for Hackney council revealed in court last week.
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C20 Society fears for listed tube stations
The companies responsible for maintaining London’s underground lines are ignoring heritage issues, the Twentieth Century Society claimed this week.