All UK articles – Page 127
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BRE manager did not tell minister that ACM had failed fire test 16 years before Grenfell
Debbie Smith denied reaching agreement with senior official to withhold key details about cladding from minister in meeting three days after fire, inquiry hears
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BRE staff may never have received impartiality training, Grenfell inquiry hears
Testing house’s former managing director admits lack of formal training regime was a ‘weakness’
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Opinion
The Medici effect is real in levelling up
The new white paper’s Florentine references provoked some hilarity, but many of its ideas are sound, says David Rudlin
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DHaus delivers design cocktail for Highgate pub infill project
Practice draws inspiration from local mews houses and Tokyo courtyard homes
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RBKC gears up for battle over police station redevelopment
Council wants Notting Hill nick for its own HOK-designed community plans but mayor of London seeks market rate
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Tim Ronalds gets go-ahead for £12m Clerkenwell illustration centre
New River Head project will repurpose 18th- and 19th-century industrial buildings to house Quentin Blake archive
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Government’s ‘confusing’ fire safety guidance did not consider life safety
Document published in 2002 appeared to equate British standards with tougher European standards, Grenfell Inquiry told
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Minister approves Tate Hindle’s Wembley flats following inquiry
Junior minister Eddie Hughes approves 454-home development
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Alan Higgs submits whisky distillery for Scottish island
In pictures: Islay scheme uses reclaimed stone
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Eric Parry and Associated Architects shortlisted for RIBA West Midlands Awards
Yorkshire and South-West England also announce finalists
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Opinion
Let’s start designing buildings for a 200-year life
A converted warehouse in Rotherhithe gives a glimpse of how that might work, says Julia Park
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Quinlan Terry: Architects don’t know how to produce classical schemes
Controversial classicist admits graduating from the Architectural Association with a ‘hideous’ parody of modernism
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Product testing sector ‘very concerned’ as ministers fail to clarify new rules
Uncertainty and shortage of testing capacity leaves UK in limbo
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Simpson Haugh’s 60-storey flats approved – with no affordable housing
Developer behind Manchester towers will pay £106,000 for off-site affordable units
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Building Study
Building study: Learning from Denise Scott Brown
As Selldorf Architects unveils £30m proposals to reconfigure the National Gallery and Venturi Scott Brown’s landmark Sainsbury Wing, Elizabeth Hopkirk meets the women leading the project
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Gove reportedly ditches Ox-Cam Arc project
Local authority boss says department has admitted it does not want to take project forward
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FCBS defends plans to flatten trio of historic Bristol banks
Studio’s environmental researcher says the demolitions are ’the right outcome for the site’
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AHMM’s Holloway prison plans deferred amid backlash
Peabody denies claim that information on scheme’s impact was ’deliberately withheld’
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Storm Eunice damages O2 Arena, Laban Centre and Cressingham Gardens
Footage shows roof of Richard Rogers’ 1999 dome shredded as 122mph winds batter UK
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Civil servant’s non-committal reply to fire safety query was typical, Grenfell inquiry hears
Brian Martin was responding to query on ’poorly drafted’ clause in official guidance which appeared to permit use of combustible cladding in tall buildings