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NewsDonations flood in for threatened music hall
A last-ditch attempt to save the world’s oldest surviving music hall from collapse has netted more than £170,000 in a week after the Heritage Lottery Fund turned down its grant application
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NewsMaritime Museum extension ready to open
The £35 million extension to the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, originally designed by CF Møller but completed by Purcell Miller Tritton, is set to open on July 14.
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Opinion
Broadband must be beautiful too
It is encouraging to see one major infrastructure provider in the form of National Grid working with the RIBA and DECC to improve the design of the electricity pylon (“Minister stresses role of design in energy plans”, News May 27 ). Isn’t it time BT’s Openreach and other broadband providers ...
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Opinion
Broadgate was Coventry's heart
My grandparents lived in Coventry and in the 1950s and 1960s and I used to visit them.
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InspirationsPaul Monaghan’s inspiration: Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool
Paul Monaghan of AHMM tells how the boldness of Frederick Gibberd’s Catholic cathedral made a far-reaching impression
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Opinion
Don't overlook Croydon's past
Owen Hatherley invites readers to consider more seriously places which many people simply scorn (Urban Trawl May 20).
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OpinionPotters Fields shows the dangers of privatisation
The privatisation of semi-judicial services, notably planning control, is problematic in several ways.
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Opinion
Education needs a total rethink
After a three-year degree, part I graduates are pretty much useless to most practices as anything other than cad operators (“Cost of studying architecture ’tops £88,000’”, bdonline May 26).
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NewsHawkins\Brown Stratford Regional Station unveiled
Station gearing up for 120,000 daily users during 2012 Olympic Games
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NewsRIBA itinerary shows business skills focus
Architects will be given the chance to brush up on their business skills this autumn, after a report earlier this year said many were not savvy enough to survive.
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NewsMinister accused of letting localism influence listings
Campaigners say Penrose’s decisions show evidence of local pressures
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NewsEric Parry lands White City job
Eric Parry Architects has been appointed to draw up a masterplan for the 4ha former Dairy Crest site at White City, west London.
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Yaya award helped Serie Architects win China commissions
BD’s Young Architect of the Year Award has helped last year’s winner to land significant projects abroad, it has emerged.
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NewsRoyal Academy Summer show 2011 prepares for opening
The 243rd Royal Academy of the Arts Summer Exhibition, an annual staple of London’s arts calendar, opens next week.
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NewsShapps outlines details of local building plans
Community Right to Build initiative part of Localism Bill
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NewsGlenn Howells' Minoco Wharf masterplan revealed
Development is part of ’Arc of Opportunity’ in Newham
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NewsGovernment outlines plan to slash construction costs
Savings of 20% earmarked with help of newly established group
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Building StudyCaistor Arts & Heritage Centre by Jonathan Hendry Architects
This reinvention of a Primitive Methodist chapel in Lincolnshire as an arts and heritage centre is one of the early manifestations of the Big Society
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NewsLifschutz's Mayfair plans given the green light
Masterplan drawn up as part of Crossrail redevelopment approved