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NewsLeicester Square gets a makeover
Westminster council has unveiled its £18.5 million redesign for central London’s Leicester Square.
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NewsParry finds hidden oasis
Eric Parry Architects’ newly completed 18-storey Aldermanbury Square office development features Corten steel external columns and stainless steel cladding, with a brise soleil on intermediate floors to shade its east, south and west facades.
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Government fails on green targets
An influential select committee has slammed the government for failing to meet its own sustainability targets for new and refurbished buildings sited on public land.
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PfS to link pupils to school design
Partnerships for Schools is to recommend that authorities entering the Building Schools for the Future programme involve pupils in the design process through initiatives such as the Sorrell Foundation’s Joined Up Design For Schools project.
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Stirling and Gowan's Leicester University faces demolition
NEWS: Stirling and Gowan's seminal modernist building could be partially demolished OPINION: Can passion save our iconic 20th century buildings?
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NewsGehry is chosen for Serpentine Pavilion
Frank Gehry is to design this year’s Serpentine Pavilion, the gallery has revealed.
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NewsChetwoods revises Hull scheme
The first phase of a mixed-use development in Hull by Chetwoods has been granted planning after the architect submitted revised proposals.
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NewsCarmody Groarke on John Lewis shortlist
Leeds scheme would be the Young Architect of Year’s largest commission yet
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NewsStirling & Gowan’s building faces demolition
Another of the country’s most significant modernist buildings, Stirling & Gowan’s Leicester University engineering laboratory, could be partially demolished, the university signalled this week.
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NewsDevelopment body goes to Gill
Liverpool Vision chief executive Jim Gill is to head up Liverpool’s new economic development company.
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NewsLate start squeezes UK’s biennale plans
The British Pavilion at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale will have to be arranged in great haste, the British Council has warned, following this week’s appointment of a director for the event.
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NewsLet the games begin at King’s College School’s new sports hall
Arup Associates has won a limited design competition for a new sports and music development at King’s College School in Cambridge.
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Bauhaus launches social housing prize
The Bauhaus has launched a social housing award for young architects based on the projects that made the design school’s name in its 1920s heyday.
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Atkins fights St James’s overhaul
Atkins has attacked development plans for the St James’s area of central London as inappropriate, claiming the area is “in danger of losing its identity”.
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Welsh aqueduct’s world status bid
Culture secretary James Purnell has nominated Wales’ Pontcysyllte aqueduct and canal for Unesco world heritage site status.
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NewsDelays mean Alsop pavilion at Headingley misses Ashes
A proposed £17 million cricket pavilion designed by Will Alsop for Headingley Carnegie cricket stadium in Leeds will not be ready for next year’s Ashes series following a series of delays and design changes.
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Eco-towns role for new agency
The Homes & Communities Agency will take a key role in the creation of Gordon Brown’s 10 eco-towns, the government has revealed.
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Unesco still worried about Gazprom tower
Unesco has strongly denied reports it no longer has concerns about the impact of RMJM’s Gazprom tower on St Petersburg, saying it has been misrepresented.
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NewsTwo of three Europan 9 winners announced
Only two winners for Europan 9’s three UK sites were announced on Wednesday.