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NewsNew Bodleian revamp approved
Wilkinson Eyre has won planning for its proposed £78 million renovation of Oxford University’s New Bodleian Library.
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Broadway Malyan proposal
A major Broadway Malyan mixed-use scheme near London’s Tower Bridge will be submitted to Tower Hamlets Council for planning next month
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Building StudyCentral St Giles by Renzo Piano
In this archive Building Study from 2010, Ellis Woodman pulls no punches in his assessment of Google’s $1bn trophy
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NewsCoin Street challenge quashed
A legal challenge to Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands’ Coin Street development in central London has been thrown out by the Court of Appeal.
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‘Super-hub’ initiative scrapped
London mayor Boris Johnson has shelved plans for suburban “super-hubs” in the outer London boroughs.
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NewsTesco given green light for east London development
Tesco has been given planning consent to build one of its new-style developments involving homes and community spaces – despite the plans being savaged by Cabe.
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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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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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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