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Camden Lift push
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris’s Kentish Town Integrated Care Centre for the Camden & Islington NHS Local Improvement Finance Trust (Lift) has been submitted for planning approval.
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RIAS puts up £25,000 prize for 2004 award
The RIAS has renewed its pledge of a £25,000 prize for the best new building in Scotland.
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NewsSpotcheck: The North-west
A glass box that will function as a work of art and a public shelter will be Liverpool's next architectural wonder after the city council gave it planning permission. The Outhouse, due to be unveiled in September, is a 7m x 4m structure lit from below by glowing neon strips. ...
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Saving the gold standard
Architects call for new rules and 'wise heads' to revise competitions.
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Ushida Findlay scheme axed as competition crisis deepens
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EH halts listing drive amid DfES pressure
English Heritage has been accused of holding back from listing a swathe of iconic post-war university buildings, following government concern over the cost of maintaining them.Separately, scores of celebrated post-war examples of social housing, cold war installations and industrial architecture are not being considered for listing because of fears of ...
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Hotel demolition scheme sparks row
A £500 million Allies & Morrison scheme to regenerate a large swathe of central London has been attacked for being bland, repetitive and proposing to demolish the 1915 Regent’s Palace Hotel.
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Zed homes developer threatens to quit UK
'The government is against everything we represent' claims financial backer
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Institute's competition crises
Last September, two leading practices were thrown out of a competition to design a £12 million town hall building in Middlesbrough. Richard Murphy Architects and Stanton Williams were disqualified after narrowly missing a deadline for a fee proposal. In January, another design competition was undermined when Newham Borough Council rejected ...
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NewsJestico & Whiles
Jestico & Whiles’ £4.2 million extension of the Central School of Speech & Drama in Swiss Cottage, north London, has won planning permission. The extension includes new teaching space, rehearsal facilities and production studios. Construction was due to start this week and the project is set for completion in September ...
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Prescott serves up solutions
As John Prescott's 200,000 home masterplan for the South-east moves towards delivery, the deputy prime minister invited top architects to dinner last week to gain some inspiration.
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Dreams to reality
Brady Mallalieu Architects is flying the flag for architects on reality TV. It has designed a house which 12 couples will help build, while facing being voted off the show. The winning couple keeps the house. Building the Dream is repeated on ITV 1 this Sunday and next at 4.55pm.
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Merging architects
Arthur Collin Architects and Walter & McNamara have merged to become DAAM. The merged practice is a long-standing collaboration between Collin and designer Mike Walter and is based in Clerkenwell.
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New life for AHA
Two practices that recently went into administration have been bought by their former manage-ment teams. Archer Boxer Partners International and AHA Architecture will become AHA Architecture International. The new firm is based in Old Hatfield.
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John McAslan & Partners
John McAslan & Partners won planning permission for three residential blocks rising from nine to 15 storeys at St George’s Island in Castlefield, Manchester. The £38 million scheme, which includes over 400 apartments, is due for completion in 2006.
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Foster in hot water over British Museum cafés
Foster & Partners’ acclaimed £100 million Great Court scheme at the British Museum faces a redesign if a planning inspector rules later this month that two cafés on either side of the Reading Room must be removed.
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NewsSurface treatment for cottage revamp
Surface Architects, recently awarded third place in the BD/Corus Young Architect of the Year Award, has won planning permission for a £625,000 extension and refurbishment of a Victorian lock-keeper's cottage.
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Who is Maxwan?
Dutch masterplanner Maxwan is no stranger to large housing masterplans such as Barking Reach.
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NewsIan Simpson Architects
Ian Simpson Architects has won planning permission for a new office development in Piccadilly Basin, Manchester. The £12 million Eider House scheme in Manchester is due on site at the end of the year.