All UK articles – Page 767
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NewsArchitects design Regent Street window displays
DSDHA and Duggan Morris among practices involved
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NewsPopulous's Olympic hockey pitches get the blues
The pitches in Populous’s Olympic Hockey Centre will be blue, making 2012 the first time Olympic field hockey is played on any colour other than green.
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NewsNightingale's Cardiff University research centre wins go-ahead
Nightingale Associates’ design for a new research building at Cardiff University has received planning permission.The £30 million scientific research facility will be built on the site of a derelict railway, providing 9,000sq m of new laboratory space for the Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics & Genomics and two new institutes covering ...
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NewsRIBA councillor Chris Roche resigns over London region unrest
RIBA Council member Chris Roche has resigned as a result of the unrest in the RIBA London region last year.The resignation follows last Thursday’s RIBA Council meeting when Roche put forward a motion asking for a public apology from Ruth Reed to himself and former London region chair Azar Djamali.Last ...
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NewsAmanda Levete triumphs in V&A contest
Former Future Systems partner will design temporary exhibitions galleries
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NewsJailed architect has sentence reduced
A disgraced architect who conned a family into spending £6,500 on work he never carried out has had his prison sentence reduced at the Court of Appeal in London.Workington-based Richard John Lindsay, 64, was jailed for nearly four years at Carlisle Crown Court last November, after pleading guilty to one ...
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NewsGreen light for Glenn Howells' racket club revamp
£10 million project approved by Birmingham planners
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NewsLottery Fund awards for Fobert, Harrap and Purcell Miller Tritton
Jamie Fobert, Julian Harrap and Purcell Miller Tritton were celebrating today after the Heritage Lottery Fund awarded £10 million to projects of theirs.Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge – which will receive £2.32 million - and Charleston Barn, near Lewes – awarded £2.4 million - are both Fobert projects. He and Julian ...
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NewsRIBA launches Conservation Register
The RIBA has launched a Conservation Register of architects specialising in work in the heritage sector.Designed as a tool for those commissioning work on heritage buildings, the register offers three levels of membership allowing young practices to gain the necessary skills in working on historic buildings.RIBA president Ruth Reed said: ...
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NewsAdam Khan's floating visitor centre launched in Lancashire
Adam Khan Architects’ floating visitor centre at Brockholes nature reserve in Lancashire is due to be floated for the first time.The practice won the £8.6 million project following an RIBA competition for the reserve, where it will also oversee masterplanning activities.Project manager Ian Selby said the floating process itself, which ...
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NewsStudio Meda triumphs in Bankside bike shed competition
Atmos Studio and Quinn Architecture lose out
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NewsParry’s Park Lane spa inspired by India and Japan
Eric Parry’s rooftop spa at the Four Seasons Hotel on central London’s Park Lane has opened.
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NewsListing dispute ignites battle over Broadgate
Developer applies for immunity as EH considers 1980s buildings
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NewsRIBA orders members to pay students minimum wage
RIBA president Ruth Reed says practices need to take responsibility for paying students properly.
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NewsPractices benefit from philanthropist's millions
Vivien Duffield hands out £8.2 million for cultural projects.
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Mecanoo’s library is disgraceful, says Madin
The architect behind the doomed 1970s Birmingham library has attacked Mecanoo’s replacement scheme which has condemned it to the wrecking ball.