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NewsSchmidt Hammer Lassen wins planning for Aberdeen University library
Schmidt Hammer Lassen to create £60m “cultural landmark” for Aberdeen University
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NewsSMC in £15m fundraising drive
The troubled SMC Group has announced plans to raise more than £15 million to cover payments due to its own practices as early as next month.
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News2020 deadline set for zero carbon non-domestic buildings
UK Green Building Council report sets challenging timeframe for new code and claims cost premium could be from 3-30%
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NewsTCPA chairman issues warning over eco-towns design competition
A design competition for the Government’s eco-towns initiative must not be used as a means of replacing masterplanners already in line for the chosen sites, TCPA chairman David Lock has warned.
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NewsOscar Niemeyer: 100 years old this week
Oscar Niemeyer, the world’s oldest practicing architect, will celebrate his hundredth birthday tomorrow, December 15.The Brazilian centenarian, who was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1907, will next week showcase his latest design – a new cultural centre for Alives in Spain.After graduating in 1935, Niemeyer joined the office of ...
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NewsCabe calls for fundamental rethink of Land Securities £2bn Victoria scheme
Cabe has called for a fundamental rethink of the £2 billion Victoria Transport Interchange scheme in Victoria, dealing another blow to the troubled Land Securities project.A report by the watchdog released on Friday stated: “[Cabe] believes there needs to be a major rethink of the principles of the masterplan, particularly ...
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NewsComing up on bdonline next week
Today’s paper issue of BD is the last of the year, but it’s business as usual on bdonline all next week.
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NewsSHL scoops Sheffield scheme
Schmidt Hammer Lassen has won an international invited competition to design a mixed-use scheme in north Sheffield featuring a new public square, library, homes and shops.
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NewsStirling Prize set to return to its roots
The growing internationalisation of the Stirling Prize has been dramatically halted by the RIBA, which has ruled that next year’s award must have a more British flavour.
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NewsHotel hangout
This Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners-designed proposal for the Berkeley Hotel site in Knightsbridge, central London, has won the backing of Westminster City Council’s planning committee.
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NewsGoing local in Muscat
Foster & Partners’ latest scheme is the masterplan for a new coastal city near Muscat in Oman reflecting traditional Omani architecture.
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NewsSumeray to lead GBC strategy
Jeremy Sumeray is to become the UK Green Building Council’s director of strategy from January.
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Eleven on superlab shortlist
Grimshaw, Hopkins Architects, NBBJ and Sheppard Robson are competing to design a world-class, £500 million “super-laboratory” in central London.
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Homeowners give new estates thumbs down
Almost a third of homeowners living in new housing estates have slammed their environments as characterless.
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NewsHTA scoops design of first eco-village
HTA Architects has beaten competition from Feilden Clegg Bradley, Acanthus Ferguson Mann, Proctor & Matthews, PRP and Broadway Malyan to design England’s first eco-village, it was announced this week.
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NewsTbilisi tower design revealed
GMW Architects has unveiled its competition-winning design (right) for a £20 million mixed-use building in Tbilisi, Georgia.
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NewsCrab emerges on the shores of Lake Maggiore
Peter Cook and Gavin Robotham’s Crab Studio has won a competition to design this new municipal theatre in Verbania, on the shores of Lake Maggiore in Italy.
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NewsWestminster council votes to demolish Pimlico School
Last ditch attempt by Rogers, Prasad and Bayley fails to save Bancroft’s Pimlico School
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News‘Gazumping’ jibe tarnishes exemplary competition
Model competition for Glasgow's Commonwealth Games at the centre of bitter "gazumping" row