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NewsSpence & Webster Belsize bungalows saved by planners
A pair of rare 1970s bungalows by architects Robin Spence and Robin Webster have been saved after a north London council turned down plans to redevelop the site.
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NewsPublic consulted again on Walthamstow plans
A public consultation on plans to redevelop Walthamstow Stadium that was abandoned amid allegations of intimidation is back on.
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NewsArchitects divided over what Budget 2011 means for built environment
Charles Holland of Fat brands Budget “pretty disastrous”.
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NewsRIBA Trust rises from the ashes
The RIBA Trust has been reborn and renamed the British Architectural Board.
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NewsReed welcomes budget initiatives
RIBA president Ruth Reed has said good design should be at the heart of the planned enterprise zones announced in this week’s budget.
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NewsRIBA row sends legal bill soaring
Last year’s London Region dispute proves pricey for the RIBA.
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NewsCouncil approves AHMM's Southwark Tower
AHMM has received planning permission to build a 20-storey tower in south London.The 89m-high development, Blackfriars Road, sits on a site at the south end of Blackfriars Bridge, and was approved by the planning committee of Southwark Council.The 17,600sq m office building for Great Portland Estates will be wrapped in ...
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NewsKilburn housing given the green light
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands and Alison Brooks Architects have won planning for the second stage of Brent council’s South Kilburn masterplan.
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NewsHOK restores Kama Sutra translator's mausoleum
HOK has completed the restoration of the grade II* listed mausoleum of Richard Burton, the Victorian explorer and adventurer who translated the Kama Sutra.The mausoleum, which is in graveyard in Mortlake, south-west London, resembles the tent he used while travelling in the Middle East. It was built in 1891 and ...
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Cheltenham Art Gallery extension to start on site after lottery grant
Berman Guedes Stretton has been given the green light for its £6.3 million extension to Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum after the Heritage Lottery Fund awarded the project crucial funds.Work is now due to start on site this summer and could be completed by the end of next year.The Oxford ...
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NewsThe budget: what you need to know
“Cumbersome” planning regulations a key target in the plan for economic growth
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Building StudyEllis Miller’s campus for Catmose College
Jonathan Ellis-Miller’s modular school pays tribute to the hi-tech era while presaging the dawn of a joyless flatpack future
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NewsCompetition to be held for £140m Aberdeen scheme
An international competition is to be held for a design to replace a planned scheme by Brisac Gonzalez in the middle of Aberdeen.
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NewsAdam wins planning for Hampshire community
Robert Adam’s practice Adam Architecture has won planning for a 211ha mixed-use development at Waterlooville in Hampshire.The development, Newlands, will contain 2,550 family homes as well as supporting social infrastructure including a community centre, land designated for healthcare and elderly care facilities, two primary schools and a nursery. As well ...
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NewsBasil Spence honoured by blue plaque
Coventry Cathedral designer Basil Spence has been honoured with an English Heritage blue plaque unveiled this morning (Wednesday) at his former home and office in north London.Spence, who died in 1976, was commissioned to design a new cathedral after the existing one was destroyed by German bombers during the second ...
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NewsCouncil backs Holl's Glasgow School of Art
Glasgow City Council’s planning committee has approved plans for Stephen Holl Architects’ new Glasgow School of Art building.The first phase of the £50 million scheme, designed with local practice JM Architects, is for a five-storey building opposite Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s building for the school.Holl said: “We are very pleased with ...
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NewsArchitects more optimistic about workloads, says RIBA survey
But concerns raised over fall in foreign projects
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NewsArchitects invited to design Joan Littlewood memorial in Stratford
Newham Council has launched a competition to create a memorial to the “mother of modern theatre” Joan Littlewood.The memorial will stand outside the Theatre Royal Stratford East and is part of the £14 million improvement works to the east London area’s public realm, alongside Studio Egret West’s sculpture The Shoal.Judges, ...