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NewsIf I were president . . .
Voting for the next RIBA president starts next month. BD asked the candidates what they stand for
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Friendly alien bites architects
Austrian gallery widely tipped for Stirling Prize leaves design consortium with losses of €500,000
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Government rejects tougher green targets
A highly anticipated government report has shrunk back from delivering radical new targets to reduce carbon emissions from buildings.
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Listing urged for Bletchley
Redevelopment plans at Bletchley Park, famously used by British codebreakers during World War II, have prompted the local council to apply for all the wartime buildings on the Buckinghamshire estate to be listed.
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MoD ditches modern methods
The Ministry of Defence has abandoned modern methods of construction on hundreds of new barracks because its military sites are too constrained.
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Inquiry for Clifton bridge plan
Wilkinson Eyre's plans for Bristol visitor centre under fire from locals
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NewsFuturistic star gazing
Studio E Architects celebrated the opening of its revolutionary Classroom of the Future project on Tuesday, which features an ETFE-covered observatory.The £600,000 low-energy scheme for Kensington & Chelsea council, at the St Francis of Assisi primary school in north Kensington, includes a telescope, indoor tropical garden and a wireless network. ...
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Design U-turn on PPS1 guidance
The government this week bowed to pressure from groups including the RIBA and Cabe, and promised to amend its guidance to planners to give clearer directions on how to assess the design of new schemes.
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Manchester firm poaches Piccadilly job
Manchester-based Stephenson Bell has poached a high-profile £24 million job from Gaunt Francis Architects.
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Hawkins Brown sees Maggie’s Centre axed
A Hawkins Brown scheme for a Maggie’s Centre in Sheffield has been scrapped, but MacCormac Jamieson Prichard and CZWG are working on two new centres.
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Make way for Paradise
Paradise Street in Liverpool, set to be Europe’s largest retail development, has won approval for compulsory purchase orders that clear the way for construction to begin on the £800 million project.
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NewsShopping in style
Foster & Partners' new flagship store for luxury retailer Asprey opened to the public this week. The practice has created a glass-roofed courtyard at the heart of the store on Bond Street by restoring Georgian facades at the back and clearing existing structures on the roof. The practice has also ...
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Transatlantic deal gets UK foot in door
British architects have taken a step closer to being able to work uninhibited in the US after a transatlantic agreement was approved by the Architects Council for Europe (ACE).
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Emergency repairs to London theatre
John Rowe-Parr Architects has completed emergency repairs to the ceiling of London's Theatre Royal Haymarket after a freak accident brought plaster raining down on the audience at a performance of hit show When Harry Met Sally.
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Cancer centre
Reiach & Hall Architects has won planning permission for a £10 million cancer research centre at Glasgow University. The glazed pavilion will provide laboratories and offices for 240 researchers from the university and Cancer Research UK at Garscube Estate, four miles west of the main university campus. The building is ...