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Arb to set new anti-rebel rules
The Architects Registration Board is set to introduce new rules that would pave the way for rebel member Ian Salisbury to be thrown off the board within three months.
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RMJM’s Holyrood safety fears
Holyrood project architect Brian Stewart complained last year about a host of safety issues with the building’s debating chamber, but was ignored by officials, it has emerged.
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Spotlisting scuppers Murphy
Richard Murphy has criticised Historic Scotland after it effectively blocked his designs for private houses in Edinburgh to save what he called a "backward-looking" 1960s home.
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NewsDutch courage
Designs by Fat for the first social housing units at the New Islington Millennium Community in Manchester were unveiled today, alongside schemes by Alsop Architects and Ian Simpson Architects. The practice was chosen by residents to create designs for 23 families at Woodward Place, and came up with the ...
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Pringle is next RIBA president
Jack Pringle has won the race to be the next president of the RIBA. His immediate pledge was to start his fight to persuade the government to improve the PFI process.
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Foster quits NYC tower
Foster & Partners has quit a controversial 100m tower scheme in New York after concern from local residents over the scale and massing of the project.
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NewsChicagos park life
A new $475 million (£250 million), 8.5ha park in Chicago features a music pavilion by Frank Gehry, a sculpture by Anish Kapoor and a contemporary garden by Gustafson Porter.Gehry's 36m-high Jay Pritzker Pavilion concert hall is the centrepiece of the park, and is linked to the Chicago lakefront by the ...
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NewsLubetkin pool was penguin turn-off
Modernist architecture is not good for your love life. Just ask the penguins at London Zoo.
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NewsAshford arrivals
Austin-Smith: Lord has won the competition to build the Ashford growth area's first landmark building with a design inspired by the Kent town's railway heritage.The Ashford Future Partnership selected the practice to take forward its design of the Discovery Centre, a £10 million, 5,350sq m building to house the town's ...
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Bath Spa costs may reach 35 million
The cost of the troubled Bath Spa project could soar from £20 million to £35 million, an independent report for the city council has revealed.
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Greenwich meets its density
Stock Woolstencroft was celebrating this week after its designs for a £30 million high-density scheme to build 136 new homes in Greenwich won planning permission after an appeal.
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Rick Mathers Italian job
Rick Mather Architects has been commissioned to design space to accommodate a famous Turin art collection.
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NewsDance the light fantastic
Aaron Evans Architects’ design for a dance studio at Oldfield school in Bath has won planning permission. The scheme comprises a dance studio, office changing facilities and entrance lobby, lit with north light from high-level north-facing glazing. The design’s “sharp corner” when viewed from the main approach, acts as ...
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Stewart heeded BD's call to 'defy thespin'
Brian Stewart (right) told the presiding officer of the Scottish Parliament George Reid he should be allowed to break a code of silence and defend his practice after a BD editorial demanded he "defy the spin" emerging from Holyrood.
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Westminster council rejects hotel demolition proposal
Concerns over the immediate future of London’s Regent Palace Hotel eased last week after Westminster council rejected designs that would have seen the hotel demolished.
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NewsConran in Ken
Conran & Partners has won planning permission for its first private house, on London’s Kensington High Street. The scheme will convert an old timber merchants into apartments and add a new-build house. The apartments will be clad in zinc panels, and the house in dark brown weathered copper with dark ...
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Heritage status will not affect 4th Grace
Unesco’s decision to give World Heritage status to Liverpool will not affect Will Alsop’s design for the Fourth Grace, city leaders said this week.