All Region articles – Page 9
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NewsPowell Dobson’s £2m eco-house reprieved
A controversial £2 million eco-home in Wales by Powell Dobson has been spared from the bull-dozer after a heated two-year planning row
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NewsZaha Hadid designs first project for her native Iraq
Central Bank headquarters in Baghdad will be a symbol of the new nation, says practice
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NewsRIBA to pay finalists early in delayed competition
The RIBA has promised to make early payments to four finalists caught up in a delayed £8 million international ideas competition.
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Light shines on Wallace scheme
Purcell Miller Tritton and John J O’Connell Architects have won planning for their extension to the Wallace art collection in central London after agreeing to lower the height of the roof lights following complaints by neighbours
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NewsDesign guide could ‘stifle creativity’ in homes sector
Architects have admitted the new London Housing Design Guide could jeopardise hope of an early recovery in the residential market
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NewsSimpson’s Leeds towers cancelled
Ian Simpson’s scheme to build one of Europe’s tallest residential towers in Leeds has been formally scrapped by the developer.
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NewsHadid’s debut London building nears opening day
Zaha Hadid Architects’ first building in England – and the practice’s first school – has now been completed
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NewsNew chapter for Croydon Carnegie library as Fat brings it up to date
Thornton Heath Library in Croydon has reopened to the public after a £1.5 million renovation and extension project by Fat.
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NewsShowtime at site of art deco cinema
DLA Architecture’s mixed-use scheme on the site of a grade-II listed art deco cinema in Eltham, south-east London, has started on site this week
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NewsYaya entry deadline Sept 3
Architects wanting to enter the 13th Young Architect of the Year Award have just a week to do so
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NewsHowells' Gloucestershire Gateway service station wins planning approval
Glenn Howells Architects has been granted planning permission for Britain’s most glamorous motorway service station.
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NewsNWDA cuts hit capital projects in the North West
The North West Development Agency has announced that it will withdraw all non-contracted funding for regional projects, hitting schemes including Haworth Tompkins’ Everyman Theatre and Proctor and Matthews’ Chester Zoo project.
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NewsCabe must cut back to core, say former bosses
Lipton and Rouse call for watchdog to focus on design reviews and produce fewer reports.
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NewsTax row could still see Foster lose his title
Norman Foster and other individuals who gave up their membership of the House of Lords for tax reasons could now face being stripped of their titles under forthcoming legislation.
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NewsFree schools ‘offer new market for architects’
As BSF bites the dust, campaigner claims initiative provides opportunity.
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NewsUK firms eye China expansion
British architects are taking advantage of a recovering Asian economy with Benoy and BDP both set to open new offices in China.
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NewsPhoenix set to rise after HMDW refurb
Work has begun on HMDW Architects’ restoration of London’s oldest cinema in its centenary year.
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NewsViñoly fits state-of-art glazing
A 40-tonne glass facade has been installed in the entrance space to Rafael Viñoly’s Colchester Arts Centre, bringing the long-awaited and troubled project a step closer to its completion, expected in September 2011
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Team sought for Manchester site
A competition has been launched to find a design team to create the public realm element of a masterplan for an 8ha regeneration site in central Manchester
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NewsHarris Partnership’s Hull Travelodge gets on the road
Work has begun on Harris Partnership’s new 80-bedroomed Travelodge hotel in Hull