All UK articles – Page 796
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NewsZaha Hadid cashes in as firm's profits treble
Zaha Hadid received a personal dividend of £1.5 million in the last financial year on the back of a near trebling of profits at her practice.Accounts filed for the world-renowned signature firm show announced a year of “significant success” with pre-tax profits at the company leaping to £4.1 million in ...
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NewsArchitects start work on prefab school templates
Government looks to slash time and construction costs through standardised designs
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NewsPrince Charles driven 'insane' by classicist label
Work with the Foundation for the Built Environment not about style, HRH insists
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NewsIkea appoints architects for Stratford masterplan
Ikea has appointed a team of architects to draw up a 1,500-home masterplan for the Swedish superstore’s first regeneration scheme in the UK.
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NewsGoods yard to host first pop-up shopping mall
Waugh Thistleton has unveiled images of Boxpark, the world’s first pop-up shopping mall, in Shoreditch, east London
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OpinionGove cannot go it alone
The government announced last week that Building Schools for the Future is to be replaced by a programme within which all projects will be based on one of six standardised templates.
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FeaturesNegative response
Residents gather at Southgate School in Enfield to protest a proposed extension by Rock Townsend
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InspirationsSergison Bates’ inspiration: Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire
Stephen Bates and Jonathan Sergison explain how studying Hardwick Hall has helped them broaden their architectural education.
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NewsV&A U-turn over Cast Court architect
The Victoria & Albert Museum is facing questions after apparently replacing Griffiths with Harrap
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OpinionPreset limits
Out of the costly BSF frying pan and into the now frugal but still centralised fire! (“’Flat-pack’ schools will make architects redundant” bdonline January 28)
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Opinion
History lessons
Toby Young is right – to a degree – but the argument is getting polarised (News, January 28).
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NewsGreen light for Tesco at Newcastle hospital site
A £100 million scheme that involves turning part of the former Newcastle General Hospital site into a Tesco store and medical walk-in centre has been given the go-ahead after years of delays
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Opinion
Falling flat
As someone who has fought battles with his local authority over the quality of design for our local PFI-funded school building projects, the news about flat-pack schools is about as depressing as it gets (bdonline, January 28)
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OpinionShould standardisation be the future of school design?
Yes, says Andrew Geldard, now is our chance to make a virtue of necessity; but Sean Griffiths is contemplating a Jamie Oliver-style campaign against processed schools
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OpinionDaddy would not be proud
To borrow from 1066 and All That (which I’m sure Gove would like us all to do), Toby Young is repulsive but right
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Building enmity
The surge in new school building and refurbishing, sponsored by the government and administered by BSF, is to meet the backlog of neglect in the existing stock, caused by many years of shameful lack of maintenance.
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Blame game
Education has been a political football in the UK since 1945 and this has been, and continues to be, detrimental to the progress of this country
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OpinionArchitecture student won’t play ball
Boots tips her cap to any youngster passionate enough to embark on a course of architectural training