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Local vote may prove fatal for RRP library
Richard Rogers Partnership's proposed Birmingham library could be scrapped if Conservatives gain overall control of the city council in next week's local elections. The Conservatives' regeneration spokesman in Bir-mingham, Nigel Dawkins, told BD the scheme would be spiked if the party won the six extra seats it needs to gain ...
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Fourth Grace redesign
Will Alsop has redesigned part of the Fourth Grace in Liverpool in response to concerns from planners that two residential blocks in the scheme would block views of the three existing Graces.
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NewsWelsh Assembly steeled for completion
Richard Rogers' new Welsh Assembly in Cardiff is finally starting to take shape, as this exclusive on-site photograph reveals.
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Ferguson seeks China recognition pact
RIBA president George Ferguson is campaigning to win mutual professional recognition between British and Chinese architects.
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NewsNew Islington
London-based practice Buckley Gray has completed three contemporary homes in Islington. The £1.26 million scheme, for developer Joel Field Properties, retained the outer walls of a 1930s warehouse building on the site. The split-level homes, set in a mews, feature iroko louvres and limestone cladding. They are reached by a ...
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Anger over tactics at Clifton inquiry
A public inquiry into a visitor centre for Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol by Wilkinson Eyre concluded last week amid anger at the site owner's tactics.
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EH faces pay strike
English Heritage architects and officers are set to vote to strike over pay within the month.
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NewsGreat West gateway
ESA Architects has won planning permission for a £10 million office building on the A4 Great West Road in west London. The 6,000sq m office, for Billhold Enterprises, has no start date. It will create a gateway into London with Parkview, another ESA-designed office building on the other side of ...
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Danish firm to bring beachlife to Reading
Danish practice Henning Larsens Tegnestue has unveiled plans for a new beach in Reading.
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NewsSpotcheck: London
Architect Nicholas Lacey is at the centre of a row between Thames barge-dwellers and residents of an adjacent block of luxury flats at Reeds Wharf near Tower Bridge. Southwark council last month refused the barge community planning permission to live permanently at the moorings, which Lacey owns. The application will ...
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Government to raise cost of planning
The government is set to force all councils to introduce a new range of planning application fees that would increase the cost of making a planning application.
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NewsCrossing the line
Station designs are being worked up in readiness for Crossrail to go before Parliament. Damian Arnold takes a sneak preview
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Another RIBA contest winner bites the dust
Market competition row erupts after winner is vetoed
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NewsHigh stakes at Holyrood
As Scotland's Holyrood Parliament inches towards completion, its complex nature continues to emerge. Peter Wilson considers how the building's exterior will relate to its newly unveiled internal space
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News£63m to avert estate collapse
Government steps in after BD reveals real danger of tragedy at Packington
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Shuttleworth makes break from glass
Former Foster's partner Ken Shuttleworth is turning his back on the extensive use of glass in new office buildings.
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Grimshaw dispels trophy fear
Nicholas Grimshaw has dispelled fears he is being used as a trophy architect on the redevelopment of the London Stock Exchange tower in the City.
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Ken 'failed to meet ministers'
Liberal Democrat candidate for London mayor Simon Hughes has accused Ken Livingstone of failing to hold a single meeting with either the chancellor of the Exchequer or the deputy prime minister since his election four years ago.
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NewsYeang takes on UK
Superstar architect Ken Yeang has teamed up with a multi-disciplinary British practice to spearhead his expansion in Europe and specifically the UK.