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NewsAcademy to teach teens design
Yorkshire city academy will be first secondary school ever dedicated to the built environment
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Elite school makes way for fresh creativity
The vacant role of chair at the Architectural Association could be split in two to allow one of the UK's major up-and-coming architects to steer its creative direction unburdened by management and administrative responsibilities.
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Litigation fear over advice fees
Government plans to introduce new fees for pre-planning consultation could be threatened because advice given by local authorities may be vulnerable to expensive legal challenges.
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Tuition fees to push debt to £57k
Architecture students could leave five years of full-time education with average debts of £57,000 if tuition fees were introduced, Tory peer Lord Skelmersdale told the House of Lords last week.
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Brighton skyscraper faces fight
Wilkinson Eyre's planning application for a 100m-high skyscraper in Brighton is facing strong opposition from Tory councillors.
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Dixon Jones proposes grand entrance for National Gallery
The National Gallery is considering plans by Dixon Jones Architects for a grand staircase at the main Trafalgar Square entrance.
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NewsSpotcheck: Northern Ireland
Private finance investment of £500 million in Belfast's schools, libraries and youth clubs is being geared up for by Northern Ireland practices. The investment programme includes 83 schools, 37 youth clubs and 21 libraries. A shortlist of three bidders for the £125 million phase one will be announced in early ...
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De Montfort regains Arb accreditation
De Montfort University’s school of architecture in Leicester has finally won back Arb accreditation for part II of its course.
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Matcham in doubt
Burrell Foley Fischer’s plan to save the grade II listed Royal Hall in Harrogate, by Frank Matcham, is in doubt after the government refused to intervene in a restoration row.
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Barnes backing
Long & Burr Architects has won planning permission for a £1.65 million mixed-use scheme in Barnes, west London. The project includes 750sq m of office space and three penthouse flats above. Construction is due to start in November.
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Luder to restore Voysey debut
Owen Luder, the architect behind some of the most celebrated brutalist buildings of the sixties, is to renovate an important arts & crafts movement house.
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Gestapo museum competition
An international design competition is to be launched to design a museum in Berlin documenting the work of the Gestapo.
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NewsTexan triumph
Foster & Partners has unveiled designs for an opera house at the Dallas Centre for the Performing Arts in Texas. The $140 million Winspear Opera House has a horseshoe-shaped auditorium that seats 2,200 people, surrounded by a main lobby of curving glass planes rising 20m. The lobby could be opened ...
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NewsMaster of suspense
Designs for a futuristic monorail system above the streets of London went on display at the Royal Academy this week. Architect Guy Pearce has worked up proposals for a £1.7 billion, 270km network of electrically powered vehicles which would run along an elevated line complete with suspended stations. Pearce, who ...
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Grimshaw's great glass giant
Designs by Grimshaw for a landmark $750 million transport hub in Lower Manhattan have gone on public display in New York City. A glass entrance building is topped off with a glass oculus that extends high above street level at Fulton Street and Broadway. It will direct sunlight into the ...
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Housebuilding slows despite Prescott push
The government’s crusade to build more houses was dealt a blow this week after new figures showed less new homes had been built than this time last year.
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Place in the sun
Edward Jones, partner at Dixon Jones Architects, has designed his own villa in the south of France. The villa, which is a 45-minutes drive from St Tropez, includes a 15 metre by 4 metre swimming pool, studio space and four double bedrooms. The main building is linear in plan to ...