All UK articles – Page 794
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NewsDe Botton’s Living Architecture to build Grayson Perry’s Essex temple
Architect Fat is collaborating with cross-dressing artist Grayson Perry to build a temple for client Living Architecture.
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OpinionA purpose far beyond books
Libraries provide communities with a vital physical infrastructure, so closures sit ill with the notion of the Big Society.
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NewsTwo landmark library buildings under threat
ABK’s Redcar Central Library faces demolition and Basil Spence’s Swiss Cottage library may close
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NewsRed tape set to foil Marks Barfield’s school plans
A controversial scheme by Marks Barfield to extend Britain’s first state-funded Muslim primary school could be scuppered by Treasury red tape
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Parry to assess Waterloo church
Eric Parry Architects has been commissioned to draw up a feasibility study for St John’s Church opposite London’s Waterloo Station
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TechnicalDiscover Children’s Story Centre by Carmody Groarke
A children’s literacy centre in London’s East End required the creation of durable, child-friendly surfaces
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FeaturesHyde and seek
Forty years before the Candy brothers, Basil Spence was bringing controversy to Hyde Park
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OpinionPrefabs need not be box-like
I read with interest your article “Architects start work on prefab school templates”.
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OpinionPop-ups: has innovation been replaced by exploitation?
Yes, says James R Payne, it’s a symptom of how young architects are treated today; but Andrew Waugh says this is recycling at its best
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NewsHopkins wins planning for ultra-green WWF headquarters
Hopkins Architects has won planning for a sustainable UK HQ for the conservation body in Surrey.
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NewsFree school plans face overspend
The government’s flagship free school policy appears to be facing a multi-million-pound funding gap.
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NewsAedas's West Tower in Liverpool under administration
Liverpool’s tallest building, West Tower by Aedas, has been placed in administration.
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NewsCrossrail stations please Cabe
Cabe has praised John McAslan & Partners’ designs for its two Bond Street stations in London’s west end.
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NewsCuts felt at Churches Conservation Trust
The Churches Conservation Trust has announced plans to restructure following a staff consultation.
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NewsRetirement home lifeline for architects
Architects will be able to pick up work if care home provider Anchor is successful in its hunt for sites for 1,100 new retirement properties across the south of England.
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NewsPlanning thumbs-up for UK's largest zero-carbon homes site
Peterborough city planners have approved a proposal for the country’s biggest development of zero carbon homes.Architect Browne Smith Baker and landscape architect Barnes Walker are working on the 295-home scheme, which will be built by Morris Homes.All the homes will be built to level 6 of the Code for Sustainable ...
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NewsHeneghan Peng submits Greenwich University plans
Heneghan Peng Architects has submitted its £76 million plans for the University of Greenwich’s new library and school of architecture and construction in the London World Heritage Site.