All UK articles – Page 719
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NewsZaha Hadid’s Evelyn Grace Academy wins 2011 Stirling Prize
Zaha Hadid’s Evelyn Grace Academy in London has won the 2011 Stirling Prize.
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NewsNational Museums Liverpool launches legal action against AEW
National Museums Liverpool (NML) is taking renewed legal action against one of the architects involved in the design of the new £72 million Museum of Liverpool
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AnalysisThe new planning rules: faster, simpler – but at what cost?
Many architects have broadly welcomed the governments’ proposed planning reforms, but some are concerned that the lack of detail could prove a minefield.
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NewsDesign for London set to expand team
Design for London is actively looking to hire staff after being given a “major role” in the mayor’s regeneration projects.
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NewsGlenn Howells gets the go-ahead for Newbury development
Glenn Howells Architects has received planning consent from West Berkshire council for the redevelopment of Newbury Racecourse
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NewsCounter-terrorism designs encouraged
A leading counter-terrorism expert has urged architects to consider security measures when designing “crowded places”.
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OpinionStratford inherits dystopian vision
Oliver Wainwright is rightly critical of the appalling developments in Stratford’s High Street (Buildings September 23).
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OpinionIs design of Britain’s public housing over-regulated?
Yes, says David Prichard, there are too many sources of guidance; while Robert Klaschka thinks we need greater consistency
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NewsJohn Pawson submits plans for Design Museum interior
Listed building consent needed for former Commonwealth Institute
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NewsHKR secures three London contracts
Irish practice to design hotel, student tower and City office scheme in UK capital
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NewsMost public work ‘to go to firms with 250+ staff’
The government has revealed that it would like to see 75% of public sector work going to just a handful of the UK’s largest architecture firms.
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NewsRichard Green Gallery completed
The refurbishment of a London art gallery by George Saumarez Smith of Adam Architecture was completed this week.
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NewsBennetts to design chapel for grade I listed school
Bennetts Associates has won a competition to design a new chapel and music school in the grounds of the grade I listed Canford School in Dorset.The chapel will sit at the edge of the school’s formal gardens and will have space for 800 seats – large enough to hold school ...
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NewsNational Trust issues planning demands
Charity calls for changes to proposed planning policy as petition passes 100,000 signatures
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NewsOlympic fringe park competition winners announced
We Made That and Free Play to design Three Mills Green
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NewsStanton Williams' plans for King’s Cross Square submitted
Network Rail applies for detailed planning permission
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NewsImre Makovecz (1935 – 2011)
Imre Makovecz, who died on Tuesday aged 75, was one of the twentieth century’s most original, inventive and politically engaged architects, a man who existed outside the mainstream and inspired a uniquely Hungarian architectural movement.
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NewsCPMG directors in management buy-out
Four directors at Nottingham-based CPMG Architects have completed a management buy-out of the practice.David Glazebrook, Nick Gregory, Richard Flisher and Sara Harraway purchased the business from fellow directors Jack Gant and Bill Crampin, who are set to retire.Glazebrook said: “This is an exciting opportunity for CPMG to continue to ...
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NewsHelena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton get planning nod in Camden
Architectural salvage and design firm Retrouvius has secured planning permission for extensive works to the adjacent houses of celebrity couple Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter.The couple live in the London Borough of Camden in separate houses next door to each other, which have since been connected at ground floor ...