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NewsKeeping in context
Sheffield architect Race Cottam Associates has completed the latest phase of plans to build new teaching facilities for Sheffield Hallam University behind a row of Victorian villas.
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Crunch scales down Jewish centre plans
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands has been forced to scale back its designs for a flagship home for London’s Jewish Community Centre amid fundraising fears.
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Most BSF designs ‘not good enough’
Cabe has found 80% of schemes reviewed by its schools design review panel were “mediocre” or “not yet good enough”.
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NewsPublic rally to best-ever festival
The London Festival of Architecture busted its own budgeted visitor numbers by attracting 250,000 people, compared to the 140,000 it expected, festival director Peter Murray revealed this week.
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NewsPractice grows its own benefits
David Morley Architects has installed an experimental green wall project in its office courtyard.
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NewsBristol wildlife park plan gets right back to nature
White Design, Kay Elliott Architects and Quattro Design have unveiled £70 million plans for a new wildlife conservation park outside Bristol.
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Housing scheme wins on appeal
Stephen Davy Peter Smith Architects has won a planning appeal for a residential scheme on a derelict brownfield site in Aylesbury.
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NewsSoane launches restoration appeal
One of Britain’s quirkiest museums, Sir John Soane’s Museum, is appealing for benefactors to contribute to an ambitious £6.3 million restoration project.
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Listing bid threatens Waterloo ambitions
Argument brews over architectural merits of London station
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NewsCalling all carbuncles
This year’s award for the most hideous buildings in the country — the Carbuncle Cup — is now calling for entries.
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NewsGallery adds a flourish
Pringle Richard Sharratt’s extension to the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum in Coventry creates a new entrance to the 1960 museum on the elevation facing the city’s cathedral and university square — and also improves the building’s accessibility and legibility.
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NewsFeng shui design for K2 hotel
Many hotels around the world offer spectacular mountain views, but few can rival those offered by Colman Architects’ newest project, a five-star hotel at the base of K2, the world’s second highest mountain.
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Capita Architecture reports bumper first-half results
Capita Symonds, parent company of Capita Architecture, has reported a strong set of mid-year results, despite the impact of the credit crunch.
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NewsBootleg Lilos win Architecture Rocks (video)
The Bootleg Lilos triumphed at the London Festival of Architecture closing party to win the battle of the bands.
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Government announces standards for eco-town buildings and green space
The government has set out standards for eco-towns that would require all buildings in an eco-town to be zero carbon and for 40% of land within the town to be designated as green space.
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NewsAlsop’s designs for Putney towers submitted for planning
Plans for two Will Alsop-designed towers on a site opposite East Putney Underground Station in south-west London have been submitted to Wandsworth Council.
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NewsKuwait unveils plans for massive Silk City development
The Kuwaiti government has announced it is to use profits from the rise in oil prices to invest £66 billion in Silk City, a massive new metropolis in the Gulf designed by Eric R Kulne Associates.
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MPs: Planning system has chronic problems
The Communities & Local Government Committee has criticised “chronic problems” in the planning system, in a report issued on Thursday.
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NewsCourt tells Arb to stay action against Ian Salisbury
The Architects’ Registration Board was on Wednesday ordered by the High Court to stay disciplinary proceedings against former board member Ian Salisbury (pictured) for failing to provide evidence that he had professional indemnity insurance.
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Crossrail wins final parliamentary approval
Parliament has given the go-ahead to Crossrail, which received royal assent on the last day before the summer recess.