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Page & Park wins Scottish portrait gallery refurb
Glasgow-based Page & Park has won the contract for the £18 million refurbishment of Edinburgh’s Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
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NewsHotel’s sandstone facade fits in to Glasgow’s material world
Edinburgh architect Allan Murray has submitted this four-star, 200-bed hotel in Glasgow for planning.
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DSDHA tops out Guildford school
A new-build school at Guildford in Surrey by DSDHA has been topped out.
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NewsSmall firms face new doubts on Olympics
The role of young and smaller practices in the 2012 Olympics has again been cast into doubt as the legacy masterplan goes to KCAP, Edaw and Allies & Morrison
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RIBA lobbies new ministers on design
The RIBA has called on new culture secretary Andy Burnham and housing minister Caroline Flint to keep design at the top of the government agenda.
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‘Significant’ shortage of skills to cost firms dear
A survey of leading practices has revealed the shocking scale of the skills shortage facing the architectural profession, with respondents expecting annual staff turnover to rise to an average of more than 70% in the next five years.
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NewsStudio Egret West’s tower ‘comb’
The first images of Studio Egret West’s design (below) to remodel the base of Richard Seifert’s iconic Tower 42, also known as the Nat West tower, in the City of London have been unveiled.
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Haringey plaque to WJ Collins
Haringey Council has commemorated architect and property developer William Jeffries Collins (1856-1936), a former resident of the north London borough.
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NewsChester tower in landmark refurb
McCormick Architecture has won full planning for a mixed-use scheme in Chester which includes refurbishing the city’s tallest building — the grade II listed, 51m-high Lead Shot Tower, empty since 1986.
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Prince Charles reignites
NEWS: Prince Charles launches damming new attack on modern architecture COMMENT: Industry experts respond
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Climate change demands
The RIBA has written to Gordon Brown, calling for a binding agreement to tackle climate change.
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NewsRosy future for Syrian kids’ centre
Henning Larsen Architects and landscape architect Martha Schwartz Partners have won an international competition for a children’s “discovery centre” and public park in Damascus, Syria, a country where 40% of the population is under the age of 16.
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NewsMinister U-turns on Giant’s Causeway
A dramatic U-turn by Northern Ireland environment minister Arlene Foster this week cleared the way for Heneghan Peng’s Giant’s Causeway visitor centre.
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Lottery blow to Manchester museum
City’s ‘Guggenheim’ ambitions felled as funds go to historic ships
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NewsChildren’s building blocks
Sarah Wigglesworth Architects has revealed images of its £925,000 Heathfield Children’s Centre & Nursery School in Richmond upon Thames.
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NewsCambridge gets little bit of Malmö
A residential scheme for Cambridge (above) by HTA Architects has won planning permission after an appeal.
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NewsClearance to start on BDP’s university campus site
BDP has revealed the first images of its Newport city centre campus for the University of Wales, which will sit on the banks of the River Usk.
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NewsArchitects blast RMJM’s docks plan
Leading architects have joined a campaign against RMJM’s 144ha Leith Docks masterplan, calling for a radical rethink before planning approval is given by Edinburgh City Council.
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NewsAquatic Centre: swan dive or belly flop?
The Olympic Delivery Authority has denied that Zaha Hadid’s Aquatic Centre has been compromised by legacy concerns, despite the addition of two massive seating stands for use during the 2012 games.
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RTPI opposes appeals charge
The Royal Town Planning Institute has launched a campaign to scrap a proposed £120 charge on planning appeals tabled as part of a range of reforms within the planning bill.