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NewsCardigan Castle wins lottery cash
Purcell Miller Tritton’s scheme to build a new heritage centre and carry out repairs at Cardigan Castle is one of the beneficiaries of £10 million handed out by the Heritage Lottery Fund to help three major restoration and education projects linked to the arts in England and Wales.
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NewsNicholas Hare wins planning for Kettering academy
Nicholas Hare Architects has won planning for its Kettering Buccleuch Academy for 1,770 children aged from 4 to 19.The 12,500sq m school, in Northamptonshire, will allow the whole academy to be located together on the same site for the first time, giving all students access to a wider range of ...
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Architects Plus wins yacht club
Carlisle firm Architects Plus has won the competition to design a new clubhouse (pictured) for Ullswater Yacht Club near Penrith in Cumbria.
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Opinion
Get behind your local centre
As a practising architect based in the North-east region and a board member of Northern Architecture, the architecture centre for the North-east, I wish to urge practices across the country to support their local architecture centres, which are facing challenges with the demise of their Cabe funding (News March 18).
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OpinionCrummy Brum
The situation in Birmingham is a fiasco (“Mecanoo’s library is disgraceful, says Madin” News March 25). The council don’t know what they’re doing and the fine citizens couldn’t care less what gets torn down and what gets thrown up in its place – a tragic vignette of what’s happened to ...
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Opinion
Global education
In our experience, registration boards are the main obstacle to realising any significant global portability for architectural qualifications (Letters March 18)
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Opinion
Sounds as a pound
Despite dismissing accusations of “Legoland” homes (Letters March 25), John Slaughter of the Home Builders Federation must surely accept that hundreds of new housing developments look like Poundbury on a bad hair day.
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OpinionSchool rules
It is interesting that Oliver Wainwright has chosen to bring Catmose Campus into the debate on the role of standardisation in schools design (Buildings March 25).
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NewsRIBA silent over claims Reed tried to oust Rich
The RIBA has told board members to stay silent on allegations that its president Ruth Reed failed in a bid to have chief executive Harry Rich removed from his post.Reports claim the move was made at board meeting earlier this year but the attempt fell through after Reed only received ...
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NewsArchitecture centres lose Arts Council funding
Four losers and three winners as funding cuts announced
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NewsListing hopes dashed for Redcar Library
Architecture minister John Penrose has ignored advice from English Heritage and refused listing for ABK’s Redcar Central Library paving the way for the 1970s building to be torn down.
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NewsRecord number of entries for Save's Buildings at Risk register
Conservationists and volunteers have uncovered a record number of buildings around the country that are seriously threatened by neglect.More than 130 buildings were submitted to Save Britain’s Heritage this year, making this year’s Buildings at Risk catalogue its biggest yet, with new sections on Scotland and Northern Ireland.“We had a ...
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InspirationsRab and Denise Bennetts' inspiration: St Catherine’s College
Rab and Denise Bennetts explain how a visit to Oxford’s St Catherine’s College as students led them to set up their own achitecture course
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NewsEarth Centre to become children's activity centre
The failed Earth Centre near Doncaster, with buildings by Feilden Clegg Bradley and Will Alsop, has been sold for an undisclosed sum seven years after it closed.New owner, outdoor education expert Kingswood, will turn it into a school activity centre. It beat a rival bid by a consortium including Arup ...
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NewsSpurs' lawyers raise concerns over West Ham's Olympic victory
But Olympic chiefs insist they have done nothing wrong
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NewsMalcolm Fraser named new chair of Scottish housing award
Decision announced as call for entries opens
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NewsDixon Jones and Rick Mather on Oxford college shortlist
Dixon Jones and Rick Mather Architects are on a six-strong shortlist for a competition to design a new lecture theatre and kitchen for Worcester College in Oxford.Wright & Wright Architects, Burd Haward Architects and 6a Architects also made the shortlist, selected from 104 expressions of interest. Irish practice O’Donnell & ...
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NewsChelsea Barracks chapel gets Grade II listing
Status granted based on new evidence from English Heritage