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NewsCampaigners hail engineer's report as proof Victorian terraces should be saved
Save Britain’s Heritage has issued an 11th-hour appeal to Liverpool Council to reject plans to bulldoze hundreds of Victorian houses, including Ringo Starr’s birthplace.A report by one of the UK’s top structural engineers specialising in historic buildings concluded that the so-called Welsh Streets in Liverpool were easily capable of viable ...
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NewsStudents invited to design John Peel arts centre
RIBA competition winner will work with Martindales Architects on Suffolk project
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NewsMcDowell & Benedetti wins planning for biggest ever job
McDowell & Benedetti has won outline planning consent for its £90 million masterplan to redevelop the former JCB factory site in the centre of Uttoxeter, Staffordshire.The practice won an RIBA invited competition in 2008 with a team including Alan Baxter & Associates, Max Fordham, Whitelaw Turkington and Dickon Robinson. They ...
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NewsAtkins cuts staff but moves ahead on profits
1,000 people go as multi-disciplinary giant boasts it will beat profit forecasts
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NewsSheppard Robson among winners of government stimulus cash
Pathfinder scheme and Prince’s Regeneration Trust project also approved
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NewsArt of Building photography competition opens
Contest seeks unique perspectives on built environment
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NewsWelsh School of Architecture completes sustainability centre
A new centre to test sustainable building products has opened at Tata Steel’s site in Shotton, north Wales.Designed by the Welsh School of Architecture, the £6.5 million Sustainable Building Envelope Centre (SBEC) will be used to test and monitor new integrated heating, energy and ventilation systems on the fabric of ...
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NewsStephen George-designed building gets Breeam thumbs-up
Construction training and research centre in Kent gets top rating
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NewsCapital's best buildings to be honoured by New London Awards
Judges from New York, Paris and Edinburgh to pick 12 winners
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NewsMake's Broadgate scheme up for approval
The City of London’s planning officers have paved the way for the approval of Make’s proposals for British Land to build a new headquarters for Swiss bank UBS.In a report prepared for the planning and transportation committee it said the building “would represent a striking and eye-catching addition to the ...
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NewsLabour peer Alan Howarth raises concern over Cabe merger
Ex-architecture minister says impact could wane
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NewsDeputy mayor of London Simon Milton dies
Mayor Boris Johnson pays tribute to “wonderful colleague and friend” who was in charge of planning
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NewsOwners should be held accountable for crumbling school estate
James Review stresses importance of maintaining existing buildings
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NewsArchitecture could be added to school curriculum
Government launches review of cultural education
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NewsB3 Architects submits major plans for Norwich
City’s ’ugliest’ building would be razed to make way for £75 million regeneration
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NewsPlanning approval for John Lyall's Chatham scheme
Regeneration scheme for Kent seaside town worth £25 million gets go-ahead
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NewsChipperfield's Neues Museum wins Mies van der Rohe Award
David Chipperfield’s revamp of the Neues Museum in Berlin has won the 2011 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – the Mies van der Rohe Award.The project beat competition from Zaha Hadid, Jean Nouvel, Belgian practice MDMA, Paris-based Bernard Tschumi and Dutch company Koen van Velsen to win the prestigious ...
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NewsPhilosopher mauls 'starchitects'
Philosopher Roger Scruton has accused star architects of talking “pretentious gobbledegook” in a bid to justify new buildings which will be torn down in 20 years’ time.In an opinion piece in the Times on Saturday, Scruton named Daniel Libeskind, Frank Gehry, Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid, Peter Eisenman and ...
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NewsGovernment backs new engineering prize
The government is backing plans to introduce a new engineering award, worth up to £1 million for the winner.Science minister David Willetts said he supported plans for the prize, which he believes could reach the prestige of the Nobel prizes awarded annually for fields including physics and medicine.The prize would ...