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RSHP reports 25% profit increase
Pre-tax profits and turnover at Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners leapt by more than 25% last year.
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NewsFuture Systems unveils designs for private home in Kent
New design was recognised as an 'exemplar project' in order to win planning for a Greenfield site overlooking the Kent Weald
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NewsLevitt Bernstein plans to add storey to London's Brunswick Centre
London's listed Brunswick Centre could be extended one storey upwards under proposals that would reinstate architect Patrick Hodgkinson's original 1960s design. Levitt Bernstein, the practice behind the successful refurbishment of the retail and residential centre in 2006, is working with centre owner Hermes on a plan to build an ...
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NewsFire damages Liverpool's Bluecoat Arts Centre
Fire has swept through the Bluecoat Arts Centre, the oldest building in Liverpool, just two months after the completion of its £12.5 million redevelopment by Dutch firm Biq.Alarms in the building were set off shortly before 4 o’clock this morning, and around 30 firefighters spent more than three hours extinguishing ...
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NewsKirkby kicks out Broadway Malyan's Tesco / Everton FC scheme
Cabe says the mixed-use scheme is 'a lost opportunity'
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NewsIndustry group proposes 'more flexible' definition of zero-carbon housing
The UK Green Building Council has devised a new definition for zero-carbon housing which makes it easier for developers to meet the government’s ambitious low-energy targets.Its report, The Definition of Zero Carbon, claims the current definition is not achievable on up to 80% of new homes, and argues that if ...
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NewsNew Maggie's by Wilkinson Eyre
A sneak preview of Wilkinson Eyre's new Maggie's cancer care centre in Oxford
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NewsPassport for Pimlico
Haworth Tompkins has won planning permission from Westminster City Council for a new 55-unit mixed residential scheme at a conservation site in Pimlico, south-west London, for the Peabody Trust.
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NewsHodder's mills and thrills
Stirling prizewinner Stephen Hodder has released images of his practice’s largest-ever scheme — a £170 million mixed-use regeneration project at Eckersley Mills in Wigan.
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Foster prizewinner to study transport links
Foster & Partners has awarded a £6,000 travelling scholarship to a student of Rizvi College of Architecture in Mumbai.
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Hadid not a factor in Moore’s resignation
Architecture Foundation director Rowan Moore resigned this week, strongly denying the institution’s recent decision to scrap plans for a Zaha Hadid-designed headquarters had prompted the move.
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NewsUrmston’s new Eden
Broadway Malyan has unveiled this apartment scheme, designed as the centrepiece of a major urban regeneration project in Manchester.
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Powell Dobson opens London HQ
Welsh practice Powell Dobson has opened an office in London, relocating four staff from its base in Cardiff.
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Digital images library to expand
The Chicago-based Society of Architectural Historians has received a $2.7 million grant to develop its online library of architectural images.
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Piano still working on Shard’s design
Renzo Piano is still finalising designs for Europe’s tallest skyscraper nearly five years after it was approved, it emerged this week.
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NewsDavis pulls out of race for president
The battle for the RIBA presidency took a dramatic twist this week as Paul Davis pulled out, leaving Ruth Reed and Andrew Hanson in a two-horse race.
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NewsNew mayor plans to cut skyscrapers
London’s newly elected Tory mayor, Boris Johnson, took a step toward halting the spread of skyscrapers in London this week with the appointment of a key adviser opposed to Ken Livingstone’s planning policies.