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Pozzoni designs centre for elderly
Architectural practice Pozzoni has won planning permission for a £20 million centre to provide housing and services for elderly people in Ormskirk
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NewsHepworth Gallery topped out
David Chipperfield Architects’ Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, has been topped out
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NewsPitt favoured as new body’s chair
Housing minster Margaret Beckett has named Michael Pitt the preferred choice for chairman of the newly created Infrastructure Planning Commission, which will be based in Bristol
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NewsCome on Eileen
Allies & Morrison’s 43-storey residential tower Eileen House, in Elephant & Castle, south London, has been submitted for planning
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NewsLibrary is first chapter in city PFI
Developer Kajima has handed over the keys of the Ryder Architecture-designed £24 million Newcastle City Library to Newcastle Libraries in a ceremony attended by poet laureate Andrew Motion
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LDA unveils new urban agenda
The London Development Agency announced its new citywide urban agenda at Mipim on Wednesday
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NewsDeveloper blasts EH’s move to list barracks chapel
The developer behind Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners’ Chelsea Barracks scheme in west London has launched an all-out attack on English Heritage’s attempt to list a Victorian chapel at the centre of the site
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NewsRogers unveils plans for Greater Paris (picture gallery)
Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners has unveiled its proposal to transform Paris by reconnecting the centre with outlying districts to create a Greater Paris in the mould of Greater London.
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NewsFollett won't list Lloyd's building
Architecture minister Barbara Follett has refused to list Richard Rogers’ seminal Lloyd’s of London building.
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NewsFoster & Partners plans La Défence tower project
Norman Foster this week unveiled plans for the tallest mixed-use building in Western Europe, located in the La Défense business area of Paris.
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NewsBoris bashed over ‘pocket money’ for Great Spaces
London mayor Boris Johnson faced ridicule this week after unveiling a public realm strategy for the capital funded with what critics described as “pocket money”.
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Mayne and Meier in final four for London US Embassy
Four practices have been selected for the final stage of the competition to design the new US Embassy in south London.
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NewsFoster & Partners’ Croydon Gateway scheme on hold
Developer Stanhope says it will build only on demand in the face of the recession
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NewsIan Simpson Architects wins RIBA contest to design National Wildflower Centre at Knowsley
Ian Simpson Architects has won the RIBA competition to design a National Wildflower Centre in Knowsley, near Liverpool.
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NewsZaha Hadid profits soar by 400% in pre-recession period
Turnover at Zaha Hadid Architects doubled to £26.2 million in the 12 months to April 2008, with pre-tax profits leaping fivefold from £1 million to £5 million, accounts filed at Companies House last week revealed.
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NewsEarth Architecture, by Ronald Rael
“Today, the most common building material on the planet is classified as alternative or worse, primitive”.