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Eubank enlists architectural heavyweights to win planning
Former boxing world champion Chris Eubank has won a two-year planning battle to build 41 flats on the site of his Brighton home after enlisting local practice Lomax Cassidy & Edwards to improve the project’s design.
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Team appointed to develop 500m Milton Keynes scheme
Architect Gardner Stewart has been appointed to masterplan the £500 million Oakgrove Millennium Community in Milton Keynes as part of a consortium led by developer Crest Nicholson.
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NewsRem stripes again
Rem Koolhaas has designed a new exhibition to celebrate Holland’s presidency of the European Union this year.
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MSPs apologise for Holyrood fiasco
Scottish politicians tried to draw a line under the Holyrood debacle last week with presiding officer George Reid apologising for the cost and time overruns on the troubled new building.
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Spotcheck: East Midlands
Creative depot The Ash Sakula-designed Leicester Creative Business Depot has been officially opened by Leicester City Council leader Roger Blackmore. The former bus depot has been transformed into 50 small business units. Ten companies have already signed up to move in to the building that includes exhibition and display spaces ...
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NewsMaking tracks in China
Weston Williamson has been shortlisted with seven other practices for a new train station in Wuhan, China.
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NewsWhy don’t housing associations hire these architects?
Despite catering for a widely diverse mix of tenants, housing associations are failing to call on ethnic-minority architects when building new schemes. Is it name and shame time?
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Arb and RIBA clash over school
Architectural education was plunged into crisis this week after a major row broke out between the Arb and the RIBA about the validation of architecture courses.
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Arb claims victory with rebel gag…
Rebel Arb board member Ian Salisbury said this week he will not stand for re-election after the regulator passed two measures aimed at keeping him in check.
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Human rights threat to heritage
An inquiry into the demolition of Greenside, the acclaimed modernist house by Connell Ward & Lucas, could become a test case for human rights laws.
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Welsh body seeks more autonomy
Royal Society of Architects in Wales holds devolution talks with RIBA
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NewsKeeping Cutty Sark shipshape
Grimshaw has unveiled dramatic new images of a £2.5 million temporary enclosure for the Cutty Sark in Greenwich, east London.
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Hopkins back at Portcullis to fix leaky roof
Hopkins Architects has returned to Portcullis House more than four years after its completion to offer advice on a leaking glass roof.
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NewsMVRDVs jolly green giant
The Serpentine Gallery in London will be covered by a large green mountain next summer, courtesy of Dutch practice MVRDV.
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Foreign Office Architects gets foothold in bureaucratic UK
Foreign Office Architects has secured a fresh chance to establish itself in the UK market with a commission to design a new John Lewis department store in Leicester.
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NewsWell-brewed designs
Twenty two of the world’s best-known architects are exhibiting their designs for coffee and teapots at the Sir John Soane’s Museum in the Tea & Coffee Towers exhibition.
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MMPs mull sweeping changes to Cabe
MPs could recommend swingeing changes to the way that Cabe operates as a major inquiry into the design watchdog gets under way.