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Renewed Shaw House lives again
Purcell Miller Tritton has completed its £6 million restoration of Shaw House, a 16th century manor in Newbury which was once the scene of an assassination attempt on Charles I.
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NewsRow grows as RIBA shops ban ACA’s rival contract
The row between the RIBA and the Association of Consultant Architects over client contracts has escalated after it emerged that the institute is refusing to stock the ACA’s rival contract in its bookshops.
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DCLG says one bid in 12 merits ‘A’
Just one of the 12 sites shortlisted for the government’s eco-towns programme has fully met the required standard, it emerged this week.
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RIBA launches facility to predict buildings' energy use
The RIBA has launched Carbon Buzz, an online facility that lets practices monitor their projects’ energy-use.
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RIBA launches research project into opportunities for disabled architects
RIBA, in collaboration with the University of the West of England, has launched a year-long study of the opportunities available to disabled architects, and how they are treated at work.
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NewsStephen Holl Architects wins Copenhagen gateway contest
US-based practice Steven Holl Architects has won an international competition for a gateway tower development for Copenhagen harbour, called the LM Project.
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NewsConran replaces Foster on Weston hotel scheme
Foster & Partners has been dropped from a plan to redevelop the Royal Pier Hotel site in Weston-super-Mare and replaced by Conran & Partners.
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Five shortlisted for flood-proof house
Five practices have been shortlisted in the RIBA competition to design a flood-proof house.
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NewsObama, architect of change, wins
While Democrats celebrate a momentous victory in the US, we review Barack Obama’s urban policies and hear how American architects are reacting.
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Nightingale closes its Bristol and Exeter offices
Nightingale Associates is to shut offices in Bristol and Exeter in a move that could see up to 17 staff members leave the company.
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NewsHerzog & de Meuron Tenerife Arts Space officially opens
Herzog & de Meuron's Tenerife Arts Space (TEA) has been inaugurated in Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands.
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NewsKyo Sung Woo’s graduate housing opens at Harvard
US-based architect Kyu Sung Woo’s graduate housing complex, 10 Akron Street, for Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has opened.
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NewsMVRDV and Adept win contest for Copenhagen tower
Dutch practice MVRDV and Danish architect Adept have won a competition to design a 116m-high skyscraper in Copenhagen.
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Government may drop heritage bill to tackle credit crunch
The heritage protection bill may be axed from next year’s parliamentary programme to make way for legislation to help beat the credit crunch, culture minister Andy Burnham has signalled.
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NewsCash shortfall could close Lighthouse architecture centre
The Lighthouse, Scotland’s architecture and design centre, could face imminent closure unless Glasgow City Council agrees a financial rescue package later this month.
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NewsVan Egaraat wins competition to design Budapest City Hall
Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat has won an international competition to design a new City Hall in Budapest, Hungary.
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NewsHistoric Berlin airport closes
The last planes have taken off from Berlin’s Tempelhof airport, after a referendum to save the airport failed to attract enough support.
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NewsTrump wins go-ahead for £1bn Scottish golf resort
The Scottish government has granted Donald Trump permission to build his controversial £1 billion golf resort at Balmedie, Aberdeenshire.
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NewsMuseum pretty in pink after guerrilla architect strikes
Painting the town… pink? A former Architect Association student and “guerrilla architect” has struck at the Foire Internationale D’art Contemporaine in Paris.