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NewsBroadway Malyan £100m Edinburgh flats scheme rejected
Edinburgh Council has refused Broadway Malyan’s £100 million scheme to build over 700 flats on a brownfield site in the city.
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NewsGwyn Hall revamp begins
Work has started on Holder Mathias’s £7 million refurbishment of Gwyn Hall, a Victorian arts centre in Neath, Wales.
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Camden schools contracts announced
Walters & Cohen and Penoyre & Prasad have been awarded the job of designing two sample schools in Camden after partner BAM scooped the London borough’s £250 million Building Schools for the Future scheme.
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NewsTory education spokesman apologises to architects
Tory education spokesman Michael Gove has been forced to issue a grovelling apology to the profession after claiming that architects were “creaming off cash” under the government’s Building Schools for the Future programme.
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NewsElection sees victory for architecture spokesmen but defeat for architect candidates
The architecture spokesmen for all three main parties have retained their parliamentary seats and increased their majorities as the country deals with its first hung parliament since 1974.
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NewsGrimshaw excels with extension
Grimshaw’s £160 million scheme to expand the Excel exhibition centre in London’s Docklands is set to open next week
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NewsOlympic Park turbines branded as ‘greenwash’
Critics slam showpiece after it emerges wind farm will not run at night.
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NewsViñoly and Bennetts set for Oxford green light
Plans for two major Oxford University buildings look set to win planning consent next week, despite heated objection from conservation groups and questions over their funding status
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NewsMason allegation as three stand for RIBA president
Institute’s investigation into RIBA London hears claims it is manipulated by freemasons
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NewsConservatives attack architects working on Building Schools for the Future
The Conservative Party’s education spokesman has accused architects of “creaming off cash” under the government’s £55 billion Building Schools for the Future programme.
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New Part L regulations published
The government has published new amendments for Part L of the Building Regulations, which are due to come into force this October.
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De Botton holiday rentals launch
Living Architecture, the organisation set up by Alain de Botton and former Peabody Trust development director Dickon Robinson to bring contemporary architecture to the holiday rental market, has opened for bookings.
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2,000 sign up for Facebook group
The Facebook group Architects Against Low Pay has passed the 2,000-member mark just four weeks after it was founded.
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NewsFraser slams Maldevic demolition
Architect Malcolm Fraser has spoken out against plans by Edinburgh Council to demolish the listed Maldevic electric car factory in the Granton area of the city to make way for new houses.
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NewsKing’s Cross go-ahead for Chipperfield, Allies & Morrison and Porphyrios
Camden Council has given planning approval to three office buildings — by David Chipperfield, Allies & Morrison and Porphyrios Associates — at London’s £3 billion King’s Cross Central scheme.
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NewsTurley Associates plans canal bridge for Hungerford
Urban design firm Turley Associates is set to submit a planning application for a 100m-long footbridge in Hungerford, Berkshire.
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NewsFoster’s to masterplan Imperial War Museum site
The Imperial War Museum has appointed Foster & Partners to masterplan its main site in London.
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Top practices fail to make Guy’s cancer centre shortlist
Foster & Partners, Zaha Hadid and Will Alsop have been knocked out of the star-studded race to build a new £90 million cancer treatment centre in London.
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NewsChetwoods offers students and new architects free London work space
Chetwood Associates is opening up its offices to students and newly qualified architects who need a London base as they try to establish themselves.
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NewsArchitect to row from Big Ben to Eiffel Tower
Architect Andrew Jones is attempting to row 480 miles from Big Ben to the Eiffel Tower – down the Thames, across the English Channel and up the Seine.