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NewsShortlist announced for Victoria & Albert Museum in Dundee
The winner of the Glasgow School of Art competition and the renamed office of OMA New York are among the six teams on the shortlist to design a landmark building for the Victoria & Albert Museum in Dundee.
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NewsMinister still getting to grips with new brief
New architecture minister John Penrose is expected to break his silence once he has got to grips with his brief after the shock decision to replace Ed Vaizey after just a few days in the job.
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The Decentralisation and Localism Bill
The Queen’s speech is rarely an edge-of-the-seat affair. But with a new government comes new policies and the announcement of the Decentralisation and Localism Bill by Her Majesty on Tuesday has prompted a mixed, and occasionally worried, response from the architectural and construction communities.
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NewsArchial boasts £60m of lined up work
Archial has said its pipeline of future work now stands at a record £60 million.
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NewsApproval for Feilden Clegg Bradley observatory
Feilden Clegg Bradley’s new visitor centre at Manchester University’s Jodrell Bank Observatory has been approved.
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NewsHousebuilding hit as government cuts £50m from Kickstart
The Homes & Communities Agency’s Kickstart programme will bear the brunt of the £230 million of cuts the government has imposed on the agency.
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NewsQatari Diar MD had doubts from start about Rogers scheme
The managing director of Qatari Diar, one of the companies behind the proposed redevelopment of Chelsea Barracks, said he had concerns from the start that the scheme by Rogers Stirk Harbour did not represent value for money.
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NewsCabe and EH and Tate all face cuts this year
Cabe, English Heritage and the Tate Gallery are being asked to cut a combined £7 million from their budgets this year as part of the government’s £6.2 billion in spending cuts.
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NewsSix shortlisted to reclad St Thomas' Hospital tower
AHMM, Grimshaw and Hopkins are among six teams shortlisted for a second RIBA competition for Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.
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NewsLubetkin health centre's future will be decided in July
The health authority in charge of Lubetkin’s threatened Finsbury Health Centre is expected to make a decision on its future in July.
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NewsAberdeen arts centre commissioner loses her job
The client on Brisac Gonzalez’s scheme for an arts centre in Aberdeen has lost her job after the project was scrapped in favour of a rival.
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NewsShock announcement sees Penrose replacing Vaizey as architecture minister
The DCMS yesterday performed an extraordinary U-turn by announcing that Ed Vaizey will not serve as architecture minister.
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NewsKent school building programme in limbo as major cuts loom
Architects await government decision on future of £1.2bn second phase.
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NewsScotland is braced for bad times
The RIAS met in Stirling last week, amid fears that low support for the Conservatives could lead to Scotland being hit hardest by the new government’s spending cuts
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NewsGuy Hollaway ahead of the curve with Kent harbourside restaurant
Local practice Guy Hollaway Architects has won planning approval for a new £2 million seafood restaurant in Folkestone.
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NewsGlenn Howells hired to ‘shift around’ Birmingham Eastside site
Glenn Howells Architects has been hired to redraw plans for one of the UK’s biggest regeneration zones, Eastside in Birmingham, following news that the government plans to build a high speed rail link through it.
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NewsEarls Court to receive Olympic makeover
Populous and Allies & Morrison are set to transform Earls Court Exhibition Centre into a temporary Olympic venue
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NewsHigh Court rejects Save's Lancaster brewery test case
An attempt by Save Britain’s Heritage to set a legal precedent protecting period buildings from demolition has been thrown out by the High Court
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NewsGreen light for slavery museum expansion
Austin-Smith: Lord’s £6 million extension to the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool has been granted planning permission.
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NewsRogers ‘precious’ over Chelsea plan
The High Court heard claims this week that Rogers Stirk Harbour was “precious” when London mayor Boris Johnson requested design changes be made to its ill-fated Chelsea Barracks scheme.