All UK articles – Page 791
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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
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NewsBuildings 'should display energy ratings'
The UK Green Building Council has said all non-residential buildings should have their A-G energy rating on public display to encourage landlords to bring up to scratch those premises lagging behind.The ratings would provide an at-a-glance indicator and detailed technical information on the energy performance of a building, it said.The ...
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NewsAdam's Warrington country house approved
Robert Adam’s practice Adam Architecture has won planning for a new country house in Cheshire.Called Massey Hall, the 2,700sq m design on the eastern edge of Warrington will replace a disused 19th century house, while Manchester firm Barnes Walker will restore the house’s surrounding parkland which was designed by Victorian ...
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NewsFormroom's Liverpool student residence wins planning
Formroom Architects has received planning permission for a 262-room hall of residence in the Ropewalks area of Liverpool.The project for developer Iliad includes student accommodation, onsite management facilities, 28 parking spaces and communal student facilities.The street facing elevations will be constructed from black brick with traditional Georgian proportioned windows. Each ...
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NewsBWP's woodland homes scheme wins planning
A scheme by Surrey practice BWP Architects to build two new homes in the middle of Hampshire woodland have been approved by local planners.East Hampshire District Council’s decision means work on the site at Four Marks can now progress. The homes are surrounded by protected trees whose Root Protection Zones ...
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NewsBusiness chiefs attack coalition's airport strategy
Gensler boss joins others saying government needs to rethink policy
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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 ...