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Street life on a new plane
Yaya winner Carmody Groarke has designed a temporary 160m-long skywalk to launch the Bloomsbury Hub of the London Festival of Architecture.
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Six shortlisted for university homes
Six practices have been shortlisted from more than 100 entrants to an RIBA competition to design and build 400 student residences for Warwick University.
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Partnering guide to speed planning
A new guide to speed up planning partnerships between councils and developers has been published by planning minister Iain Wright.
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Silver scheme gives Soho modern touch
DSDHA has won consent for the first modern building in Westminster since Richard Rogers was granted planning for Broadwick Street in 1996.
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Elephants pack their trunks
Foster & Partners’ new elephant house at Copenhagen Zoo was opened by the Danish Prince Consort on Tuesday.
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River Don project in for planning
Hopkins Architects has submitted a new sustainable business and residential scheme for Sheffield’s River Don Valley for outline planning.
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Edaw to design waterside site
Chesterfield Borough Council has appointed Edaw to masterplan Chesterfield Waterside, a 16ha brownfield site adjacent to the town centre.
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Tropical medicine facility completed
Sheppard Robson’s Centre for Tropical & Infectious Diseases for the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has been completed.
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Commercial lease will fund RA refurb
David Chipperfield is picked to give Royal Academy a modern approach
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Environmental centre planned for former lime quarry
Halliday Clark Architects’ scheme to build an environmental centre in a disused quarry has been submitted to Yorkshire Dales National Park for detailed planning.
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Causeway takes a giant step forward
Three years after winning an international competition to design a new visitor centre at Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland, Heneghan Peng Architects’ scheme was finally submitted for planning this week.
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Call to dump design tsar
Leading developers have rejected the idea of a London “design tsar”, dismissing the post as “another bloody layer of bureaucracy”.
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Poor designs kill off bus shelter contest
A competition to redesign London’s 12,000 bus shelters has been scrapped because the shortlisted schemes by firms including Conran & Partners, Ian Ritchie Architects and Arups were not considered good enough.
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Patel Taylor’s park draws a thin green line through Birmingham
Patel Taylor’s £12.5 million scheme for Eastside City Park, a green, linear park planned for Birmingham, has been granted outline planning approval.
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PMs Award shortlist out
Denton Corker Marshall’s Civil Justice Centre in Manchester, Allies & Morrison’s Festival Hall revamp and Muma’s Newlyn Art Gallery in Cornwall are on the 21-strong shortlist for the Prime Minister’s Better Public Building Award, the annual gong that rewards design-led regeneration projects.
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ODA in row over Aquatics Centre legacy provision
A row has broken out between the Olympic Delivery Authority and Newham Council over leisure water facilities as part of the legacy provisions associated with Zaha Hadid’s Aquatics Centre.
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Warehouses scheme approved
Liverpool City Council has granted planning permission for a scheme by Thinking Space to turn a series of grade II and grade II* listed tobacco warehouses in Stanley Dock into a mixed-use development with 918 apartments, 11,000sq m of office space and 2,800 sq m of exhibition space.
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Islington hotel scheme approved
EPR Architects has won planning for a new hotel in Islington, north London, on one of the last sites in the capital to be redeveloped after being bombed in the second world war.