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NewsSpotcheck: The North-west
Europe's largest retail scheme began construction in Liverpool this week. The £800 million, 17ha Paradise Street development will include three department stores, two hotels, restaurants, housing, offices, recording studios, a meeting hall, gallery, bus station and car park. Architects working on the scheme include Cesar Pelli, Dixon Jones, CZWG, Wilkinson ...
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NewsBuilding a life on Mars
This week’s design contest for Antarctica will inspire the first buildings on Mars.
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Political pressure for united education
Richard Rogers is to lobby ministers for a root-and-branch reform of architectural training. He wants to bring together architecture, landscape architecture and urban design in a new undergraduate degree, which will be followed by specialist postgraduate studies.He said planning should also be integrated in that mix, but believes education authorities ...
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Aukett Group recovery cut short by losses
Britain’s only listed practice — Aukett Group Plc — is operating at a loss once again, only six months after coming back into profit amid claims that its long malaise was over.
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LDA’s Brixham plans a bit fishy
A £100 million masterplan for Brixham (south Devon) is set to be revised, following stinging criticism by a director of the town’s regeneration group.
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NewsSecondary modern
A geodesic auditorium pod forming the centrepiece of an £8 million scheme by dRMM to transform Kingsdale School in Dulwich, south London, has been completed. The pod which stands in the newly covered school courtyard, has a faceted skin clad on both sides with lozenge-shaped plywood panels. Atelier van Lieshout’s ...
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Architects to help secure Palace of Westminster
MPs have called on architects to ensure the planned security crackdown around the Palace of Westminster does not damage the historic landmark.
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Design team delays cost Holyrood £166m
Failure by the Holyrood design team to deliver work on time contributed towards £166 million of the estimated £220 million cost overrun, Scotland’s auditor general said this week.
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NewsMaking waves
Grimshaw has unveiled images of a £25 million scheme that will see the Cutty Sark riding the waves once again.
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Homes jitters to hit small firms
Small practices could be hit after the latest construction forecasts showed a sharp decline in maintenance and improvements to private housing.
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Lack of evidence clears architect of misconduct
An architect has been cleared of professional misconduct and incompetence at an Arb hearing.
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NewsCockney colour
Pastina Matthews Architects has revealed designs for a colourful mixed-use develop-ment for a private developer in London’s Whitechapel.The £650,000 project, which has already secured planning permission, is in Gunthorpe Street, adjacent to Whitechapel Art Gallery and will provide six apartments and one commercial unit. It features a coloured glazed facade, ...
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EH removes 100 from at risk register
More than 100 buildings have been removed from English Heritage’s 1,500-plus grade I and grade II* Buildings at Risk Register after their futures were secured.