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McAslan reshuffle follows share pledge
John McAslan & Partners has restructured its offices in Manchester and London to allow senior staff to purchase a share of the practice.The practice has appointed a number of new associates and two new directors: Aidan Potter, who worked with McAslan for 10 years before moving to Terry Farrell & ...
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Son steps in to save Dhaka
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn, son of legendary architect Louis I Kahn, has intervened in Bangladesh to try and preserve his father’s celebrated Dhaka parliament complex.
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NewsGherkins little brother
Foster & Partners has unveiled its latest tall building for the City of London. The 115m-high office tower (centre) features 19,500 sq m of office space, 500 sq m of retail and leisure facilities and a landscaped sky garden on the top floor. The office tower on Camomile Street, for ...
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Mathers Ashmolean project wins 15m lottery funding
Rick Mather Architects is pushing full steam ahead on its scheme for the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford after the project secured £15 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund last week.
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NewsSpotcheck: Wales
Welsh PoundburyA Poundbury-style development at Llandarcy in West Glamorgan has moved a step closer. Project partners the Prince’s Foundation, Welsh Development Agency, oil giant BP and Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council have agreed to draw up a shortlist of developer-led teams to come up with plans for 2,500 homes ...
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End of the iconic age?
Black week for star architects as public funding bodies turn against ‘Golden Banana’, ‘Spiral’ and ‘Cloud’
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NewsWhat next for the country?
Urban strategies are being modified to relieve growing pressure on the countryside. In a five-page special, BD investigates a new vanguard in rural architecture
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Exams shock: almost half fail at De Montfort
University of Central England forced to suspend course after 90% of students fail part I
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RIBA calls for radical planning experiment
Developers would bid for a licence under proposals put to government
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EC cracks down on fee scales
In a move that could affect fee charging in the UK, the European Commission has fined the Belgian equivalent of the RIBA €100,000 (£66,700) for “helping price co-ordination” by publishing fee scales.
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Insurers set out Gateway terms
UK insurers this week set out the circumstances in which they would back the government’s massive housebuilding programme in the Thames Gateway.
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NewsAlsop hits back: Get off my cloud
Will Alsop angrily struck out at Liverpool City Council and its partners this week for pulling the plug on his controversial Fourth Grace scheme.
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NewsAdjayes big idea
David Adjaye’s Idea Store in east London has opened to the public. The new library offers free Internet access, courses and thousands of books, CDs and DVDs to hire. The building is part of a plan by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets to replace its existing libraries with modern ...
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Percy Thomas team eyes Iraq health work
A team including Capita Percy Thomas and Iraqi-born architect Ali Mousawi has a scoping study for three hospital projects in northern Iraq, BD can reveal.
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NewsHit and miss
Hopkins Architects has submitted its 14ha regeneration masterplan in Nottingham Eastside for outline planning permission. The £900 million plan includes 130,000sq m of office space and 125,000sq m of residential, retail and leisure facilities.The RIBA is running a competition to design a new bridge over the A127 in Basildon. Basildon ...
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NewsPeople
Terry Farrell (above) has praised the Streetscape design guide launched by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea last week, which outlines the borough’s design philosophy for the public realm, including the use of materials and reduction of clutter on the street.US lifestyle guru Martha Stewart has sold her Richard ...
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Power play
The Richard Rogers Partnership’s masterplan to regenerate the land around the new Wembley Stadium has won the backing of London Mayor Ken Livingstone. The way is clear for the project now as the mayor has not directed refusal and the scheme is unlikely to be called in.Arb’s professional conduct committee ...
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NewsBeijing butterfly
Weston Williamson Architects has unveiled its revamped designs for Beijing South Central train station in China. The London-based practice is competing against Terry Farrell & Partners and French practice AREP for the station, which will serve more than 400,000 passengers a day.The three practices originally submitted designs in April and ...