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NewsHeneghan Peng shortlisted for Manchester masterplan
Dublin-based practice Heneghan Peng is in the running against KPF, BDP and Arup Design to masterplan an 8ha site in central Manchester.
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NewsWorsley travel fellowship formed
The RIBA and the British School at Rome (BSR) have created a travel fellowship in memory of architectural historian and critic Giles Worsley (pictured).
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NewsRevelation enrages Smithfield inquiry
Plans to replace part of Smithfield Market with a KPF-designed office scheme suffered a new blow this week after it emerged that developer Thornfield recently bought a car park in the market’s basement but failed to declare it.
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NewsMurray and Dunlop scoop Glasgow hotel
Gordon Murray & Alan Dunlop Architects has beaten Make and RMJM to land a high-rise, five-star hotel commission for a riverside site in central Glasgow’s new financial services district.
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DfL seeks framework tenders
Expressions of interest are being sought from architects and other professionals for a new framework panel for the mayor’s Design for London.
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Obesity role for design
Architects working in England will be eligible to receive special training under the government’s £372 million strategy to tackle obesity, unveiled this week.
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EH to push energy cuts in old homes
English Heritage has teamed up with a leading energy company to find ways of adapting Victorian and Edwardian homes to make them more energy efficient.
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Edaw nets Coney Island redesign
Edaw has triumphed in a competition to redesign Steeplechase Plaza at Coney Island, New York.
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NewsCity towers in turmoil following share slump
New landmarks in doubt as recession looms, but SEW bags Tower 42 revamp
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NewsChallenge to Foster in Shoreditch
Action group proposes own scheme to save popular high street bar
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NewsCulloden memorial centre open
Gareth Hoskins Architects has revealed its new £7 million Culloden Battlefield Memorial Centre near Inverness.
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Slump in client building enquiries
Client enquiries for all types of building work have fallen to the lowest levels since 2005, according to the Federation of Master Builders.
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NewsCouncil sues over illegal work to Putney Bridge
Disgraced architect Clifford Gardner could face jail after drilling holes in listed bridge
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NewsMile End brewery site to house flats
Chris Dyson Architects has won planning permission for this four- storey residential development in a conservation area in Mile End, east London.
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NewsBovis’s King goes to Candy & Candy
Former Bovis Lend Lease project commercial director Rod King has joined luxury developer and interior designer Candy & Candy as commercial director.
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Council relaunches Birmingham library project
The race to design the troubled £193 million Birmingham Library has begun after the city council published an advertisement in the Ojeu.
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NewsZaha in human rights row over Azerbaijan project
Soviet experts have criticised a cultural centre designed by Zaha Hadid Architects in memory of a former KGB chief and ruler of Azerbaijan.
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NewsArup Sport wins Singapore hub
Arup Sport has won the competition to design Singapore’s new “sports hub”, the world’s largest private-public sports project.
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Architecture schools to combine
Edinburgh’s two architecture schools are to join forces to create a “super-school”.
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Savaged Stratford scheme approved
A controversial Stock Woolstencroft scheme in Stratford, east London, has finally won planning permission despite being slammed twice by Cabe for being a potential blot on the Olympic landscape.