All UK articles – Page 775
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FeaturesComing home from a fantasy world
As well as his album covers, Roger Dean designed this Tectonic House for 1981’s Ideal Home exhibition
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Opinion
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Your article “Cabe’s BSF design standards ’did not work’, says James” (bdonline April 8) comments on the effectiveness of Cabe in the BSF programme.
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NewsRogers Stirk Harbour tells residents to reject Oxley Woods 'imitations'
Developer insists the rest of the Milton Keynes housing estate will be designed by replacement firm.
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NewsArchitecture Centre Network 'could close' after latest funding blow
The Architecture Centre Network (ACN) has admitted it may be forced to wind itself up after the government rejected its bid for funding.Chief executive Bridget Sawyers warned that one or two regional centres might also have to close after several sources of funding collapsed.In the latest blow yesterday, planning minister ...
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NewsKing's Cross housing set to go ahead
Maccreanor Lavington has secured planning consent for a major new development at King’s Cross Central.
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NewsCampaigners hail engineer's report as proof Victorian terraces should be saved
Save Britain’s Heritage has issued an 11th-hour appeal to Liverpool Council to reject plans to bulldoze hundreds of Victorian houses, including Ringo Starr’s birthplace.A report by one of the UK’s top structural engineers specialising in historic buildings concluded that the so-called Welsh Streets in Liverpool were easily capable of viable ...
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NewsStudents invited to design John Peel arts centre
RIBA competition winner will work with Martindales Architects on Suffolk project
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NewsMcDowell & Benedetti wins planning for biggest ever job
McDowell & Benedetti has won outline planning consent for its £90 million masterplan to redevelop the former JCB factory site in the centre of Uttoxeter, Staffordshire.The practice won an RIBA invited competition in 2008 with a team including Alan Baxter & Associates, Max Fordham, Whitelaw Turkington and Dickon Robinson. They ...
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NewsAtkins cuts staff but moves ahead on profits
1,000 people go as multi-disciplinary giant boasts it will beat profit forecasts
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Building StudyDavid Chipperfield’s Turner Contemporary Gallery
David Chipperfield’s Margate gallery celebrates its unique light but fails to open up to the town
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NewsSheppard Robson among winners of government stimulus cash
Pathfinder scheme and Prince’s Regeneration Trust project also approved
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NewsArt of Building photography competition opens
Contest seeks unique perspectives on built environment
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NewsWelsh School of Architecture completes sustainability centre
A new centre to test sustainable building products has opened at Tata Steel’s site in Shotton, north Wales.Designed by the Welsh School of Architecture, the £6.5 million Sustainable Building Envelope Centre (SBEC) will be used to test and monitor new integrated heating, energy and ventilation systems on the fabric of ...
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NewsStephen George-designed building gets Breeam thumbs-up
Construction training and research centre in Kent gets top rating
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NewsCapital's best buildings to be honoured by New London Awards
Judges from New York, Paris and Edinburgh to pick 12 winners
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NewsMake's Broadgate scheme up for approval
The City of London’s planning officers have paved the way for the approval of Make’s proposals for British Land to build a new headquarters for Swiss bank UBS.In a report prepared for the planning and transportation committee it said the building “would represent a striking and eye-catching addition to the ...
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NewsLabour peer Alan Howarth raises concern over Cabe merger
Ex-architecture minister says impact could wane