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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, ...
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NewsParadise Circus scheme forces Birmingham music school move
The Birmingham Conservatoire has vowed it will move to a new home after Glenn Howell’s £500 million Paradise Circus scheme cleared its final hurdle.The conservatoire’s current home at Paradise Place sits on the proposed site of the scheme for developer Argent. Earlier this month the government granted John Madin’s Birmingham ...
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NewsDecision imminent on Stephen Holl’s Glasgow School of Art
Glasgow City Council’s planning committee is expected to approve Stephen Holl Architects’ proposals for the new Glasgow School of Art building when it meets tomorrow (Tuesday) .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.A report ...
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NewsPlasticine model of future city needs new home
A model depicting how a city may look in the future, made entirely of plasticine, needs a new home because its creator no longer has room for it.
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NewsTurn redundant high streets into housing, says think tank
Policy Exchange calls for planning reform
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NewsBDP launches sponsored cycle ride in memory of Jo Yeates
BDP has launched “Cycle for Jo”, a charity cycle ride, where employees from BDP studios all over the world will ride in relay teams between studio locations.The ride, which starts on May 6 at BDP’s London office, has been organised in memory of murdered landscape architect Joanna Yeates, who worked ...
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NewsGrimshaw power plant 'exemplary' says Cabe
Design watchdog praises Suffolk waste-to-energy facility proposal