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NewsDivine inspiration
McHugh Stoppard Architecture has won planning permission to convert a former primary school in Walton, Liverpool, into for a community and business centre
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Hawkins Brown for Westminster
Hawkins Brown is to masterplan the redevelopment of Westminster University’s campus in north-west London.
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NewsGreat British garden plan for Olympic park
LDA Design and Hargreaves Associates have unveiled plans for a classic British garden – complete with sandpit and frog pondin the heart of the Olympic Park.
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Rundell joins Hirst in gallery bid
Rundell Associates is working with artist Damien Hirst on a bid for a gallery to be built in Hyde Park.
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NewsWalsall tree building starts on site
Work will start on site next week to create Bisset Adams’ £6.5 million office building for Walsall Housing Group.
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NewsPrime Minister’s better public building award shortlist unveiled
Rick Mather’s Ashmolean Museum, Reiach & Hall’s New Stobhill Hospital and AHMM’s Kentish Town Health Centre are among the 22 projects shortlisted for this year’s Prime Minister’s Better Public Building Award.
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NewsRetrofitting is best way to cut carbon emissions, says report
The best way to bring down carbon emissions from the built environment is to embark on a national programme of retrofitting, a major new report argues.
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NewsArchitects worse hit by recession, FT reports
Architects are still bearing the brunt of the job losses caused by the recession, the Financial Times reported today.
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NewsBoris seeks to scrap London Development Agency
The mayor of London has made an audacious bid to extend his powers by setting out proposals to scrap the London Development Agency and take over the functions of a range of other bodies.
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NewsLee Fitzgerald Architects refurbish bookshop at Oxford College
Lee Fitzgerald Architects has won planning permission to refurbish and adapt Gillespie Kidd & Coia’s grade II listed bookshop at Oxford University’s Wadham College.
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NewsThe Wilberforce Health Centre
HLM’s £16 million health and well-being centre in Hull has started on site.
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NewsBoris calls for new financing model to enable Battersea tube extension
London mayor Boris Johnson has written to chancellor George Osborne urging him to introduce a novel form of financing seen as crucial to the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station.
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NewsQatari Diar deleted emails that harmed its barracks case, court told
A Qatari Diar executive deliberately destroyed emails that would have damaged the developer’s case against the Candy brothers, including several mentioning Prince Charles, the High Court was told today.
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NewsHanif Kara joins Architecture Foundation board
The engineer Hanif Kara has been appointed to the board of trustees of the Architecture Foundation.
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NewsBill Dunster and Donald Insall honoured by the Queen
Conservation architect Donald Insall and green pioneer, Bill Dunster, are among those recognised in the Queen’s birthday honours.
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NewsStudio Weave create 'dance podium' for Glastonbury
Studio Weave has been commissioned to create an installation for Glastonbury that will go on to tour music festivals around the country this summer.
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NewsHeritage fears for Stratford
English Heritage has attacked plans by Studio Egret West and Gross Max for Stratford town centre in the run-up to 2012.
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News'Market garden' plans for Chelsea Barracks
Chelsea Barracks will be transformed into a sustainable “market garden” complete with beehives, orchards, vegetable plots and a nuttery, under plans outlined by landscape architect Kim Wilkie.
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NewsOutrage at gutting of landmark listed block
The City of London has been accused of ruining the interiors of flats at Chamberlin Powell & Bonn’s renowned 1950s Golden Lane Estate by carrying out modernisation work without listed building consent
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TechnicalWarwick Clinical Trials Unit by MJP Architects
This building for Warwick University uses composite timber curtain walling to improve energy performance and create an elegant facade