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NewsHedge fund takes 73% stake in SMC
SMC Group is set to begin a round of new acquisitions after hedge fund Ironshield Special Situations Master Fund took a 73% share in the business, becoming the majority shareholder.
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Burns museum delayed to 2010
The Robert Burns International Museum, by Edinburgh firm Simpson & Brown, will not be ready by 2009, the 250th anniversary of the poet’s birth, because of funding delays.
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NewsAaron Betsky to curate Venice Biennale
Aaron Betsky has been appointed director of the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale. Betsky, director of the Cincinnati Art Museum in the United States and former director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute of Rotterdam, will curate the festival on the theme “Architecture Beyond Building”. The eleventh international architecture exhibition will include ...
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NewsGehry to design 2008 Serpentine Summer Pavilion
Frank Gehry is to design this year’s Serpentine Pavilion, the gallery has revealed. The temporary structure, which will be on site for three months this summer, will be Gehry’s first built structure in England, in accordance with the Serpentine’s rules on selecting architects for the annual pavilions.Gallery director Julia Peyton-Jones ...
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NewsZaha Hadid's double win in Michigan and Warsaw
Zaha Hadid Architects wins competitions for Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum in Michigan and Lilium Tower in Warsaw
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NewsSMC shareholders approve issue of £15m in new shares
SMC Group shareholders yesterday gave the green light for the release of new shares worth more than £15 million to cover payments due to the group’s own practices.During an extraordinary general meeting, shareholders voted in favour of a set of proposals that will see 188 million new shares created, increasing ...
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NewsFerguson blasts KPF's "gargantuan" Smithfield plans
Former RIBA president George Ferguson has thrown his weight behind English Heritage’s objections to the redevelopment of Smithfield Market.Giving evidence on Wednesday at the public inquiry into KPF's controversial scheme, Ferguson blasted proposals to demolish the General Market building and replace it with a structure he described as “gargantuan” in ...
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NewsUnesco refutes claims of Gazprom tower u-turn
Unesco has strongly denied press reports that it no longer has concerns about the impact of RMJM’s 396m-high Gazprom tower in St Petersburg and claims it has been misrepresented.Francesco Bandarin, who heads Unesco’s World Heritage Centre division, said: “I never said any of these things, nor did my associates, and ...
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NewsWallace Collection seeks designer to transform museum entrance
A new competition has been launched to redesign the entrance to London’s famous museum the Wallace Collection.The project aims to transform the main entrance to the museum’s grade II-listed building Hertford House in Londons' Manchester Square and involves working with architect Purcell Miller Tritton.The Wallace Collection is a national Museum ...
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NewsSorrell knighted in honours list
Cabe chairman John Sorrell has been knighted in the New Year honours.
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NewsHolt Town Waterfront set to go
Manchester City Council said this week that it was “minded to approve” plans for Edaw and Studio Egret West’s Holt Town Waterfront — the city’s largest-ever scheme.
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NewsFCBS/Ryder group scoops Kent schools
A consortium including Feilden Clegg Bradley and Ryder has won a £600 million Building Schools for the Future deal after beating the much touted Skanska consortium, which included Make, DRMM, Flacq and DSDHA.
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NewsFoster’s fails to win round Ealing tower opponents
Foster & Partners has failed to convince English Heritage and local residents to back plans for a controversial suburban skyscraper after altering its designs.
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NewsDesign goes to the Dogs
Hamiltons Architects has submitted its design for the £140 million Indescon Court scheme in east London’s Isle of Dogs for planning.
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NewsGateway to culture
Planning permission has been granted for a project by Alison Brooks Architects — part of a scheme by Urban Splash believed to be Liverpool’s biggest-ever residential development.
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Cooper lost her nerve, say MPs
MPs have accused housing minister Yvette Cooper of “poor preparation” and losing her nerve over home information packs.
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NewsWren conversion gets go-ahead
The Hutchinson Studio has won planning permission to renovate and convert the grade I listed St Nicholas Cole Abbey in central London, designed by Sir Christopher Wren.
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McAslan relaxed on New Street contest
John McAslan & Partners’ beleaguered New Street station project in Birmingham is set to be substantially revised after the client launched a new design competition for the £550 million scheme.
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NewsContemporary style wins out with flexible room for a view
Architects in Residence has won a planning appeal for this £600,000 family house in the London borough of Bromley.