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NewsNLA student winner takes on Chelsea Barracks
Royal College of Art graduate Stuart Evans has been named as the winner of this year’s New London Architecture student prize.
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NewsAtkins plans to buy US firm PBSJ for £178m
Atkins has announced plans to buy American construction management company PBSJ for £178 million.
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OpinionHomework in the crypt? Historic churches and free schools
Disused historic churches can be part of a creative solution for the free schools programme
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NewsResidents call on Prince Charles to intervene over Iranian Embassy proposal
Daneshgar Architects’ futuristic scheme for a new Iranian Embassy building in London has outraged conservationists and neighbours who are calling on the Prince of Wales to intervene.
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NewsStudio Real submits plans for Towcester redevelopment
Oxford architect and urban planner Studio Real has submitted plans to redevelop part of Towcester in Northamptonshire.
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NewsVan Heyningen & Haward wins go-ahead for Essex nature park scheme
Thurrock Council has given planning approval to a new visitor centre by Van Heyningen & Haward at a nature park in Essex.
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NewsArchitect fined after health and safety lapse causes death
An architect has been fined £180,000 after pleading guilty to breaching health and safety regulations on a site in which a construction worker was killed.
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NewsBrady to act over low pay
Incoming RIBA president Angela Brady will put low pay at the top of her in-tray when she takes over from Ruth Reed next year.
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NewsRecession-hit housing expo finally set to open
Last-minute building work was being carried out this week ahead of Scotland’s Housing Expo, the recession-hit event which finally opens this weekend.
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AnalysisHow job losses take a toll on employees, bosses and the staff left behind
With no signs that the recession’s bite is about to ease, BD looks at the effect of redundancy on architects who have lost their jobs and those who have had to let them go.
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NewsRugby matches on unused Foster site
An east London council was this week due to extend proposals allowing teenagers temporary use of the site earmarked for a £500 million Foster & Partners development in Shoreditch.
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NewsVictorian Society backs Purcell Miller Tritton's Manchester hotel plan
The Victorian Society has praised Purcell Miller Tritton’s plans to save Manchester’s grade-II* listed fire headquarters by turning it into a luxury hotel.
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NewsBoris Johnson publishes new London views guidance
London mayor Boris Johnson has published planning guidance for developers telling them where they can build in the capital without spoiling protected views.
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NewsNWDA cuts hit capital projects in the North West
The North West Development Agency has announced that it will withdraw all non-contracted funding for regional projects, hitting schemes including Haworth Tompkins’ Everyman Theatre and Proctor and Matthews’ Chester Zoo project.
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Green light for Alsop’s City hotel
Alsop Sparch has won planning permission for a £250 million Will Alsop designed seven-storey hotel at Puddle Dock in the City of London
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NewsLondon practice wins battle of the South Downs bungalows
London-based practice Barrett Lloyd Davis Associates has won permission for two Code 5 for sustainable homes bungalows in the South Downs National Park after a protracted battle with planning officials
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Hunt warns Cabe faces radical shake-up
Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has warned Cabe it will be radically restructured this autumn after admitting this week he was “considering the role” of the design watchdog
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NewsPlanners told to ease the way for free schools
Communities secretary Eric Pickles has revealed further details of the government’s plans to make the planning process friendlier to free schools
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Glockenspiel hits the right note
Westminster Council has given the thumbs-up to Jestico & Whiles’ designs for the new Swiss glockenspiel in London’s Leicester Square