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NewsFive-star praise for Heron’s hotel neighbour
Cabe has praised PLP’s plans for a new five-star hotel next door to the Heron Tower in the City of London. The scheme is part of a mixed-use development, including public space and private residences.
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NewsImpressive volumes
Next week sees the official opening of the second phase of Haworth Tompkins’ redevelopment of the London Library.
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NewsGove to relax planning rules so disused buildings can become schools
Architects have given a cautious welcome to education secretary Michael Gove’s announcement that he will relax planning rules to make it easier to turn derelict hospitals, shops and pubs into “free schools”.
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NewsLifschutz Davidson Sandilands to masterplan UCL campus
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands has been appointed by University College London to masterplan its Bloomsbury estate – beating 120 others to win the job.
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NewsNewport station starts on site
Work to clad the new Newport train station with 31 air-filled plastic cushions has begun.
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NewsRIBA voices relief over Osborne’s Budget
The RIBA has given a cautious welcome to yesterday’s Budget, praising the Chancellor’s commitment to maintain capital spending and predicting that there will still be money for well-designed schools, housing and hospitals.
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NewsRIBA takes the Stirling Prize to the BBC
The RIBA has announced that this year’s Stirling Prize will be shown on BBC Two’s The Culture Show, after viewing figures dipped to an all time low on Channel 4 last year.
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NewsFeilden Clegg Bradley's structural spaghetti
Feilden Clegg Bradely challenged eight other practices in London’s Fitzrovia and members of the public to build a structure using spaghetti as part of the London Festival of Architecture last weekend.
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NewsNew Whitechapel Crossrail scheme by BDP
The first images of a new, improved – and significantly cheaper – scheme for the proposed Crossrail station at Whitechapel by BDP have been revealed.
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NewsCarmody Groarke builds east temporary restaurant on east London building site
Carmody Groarke has completed work on a temporary restaurant structure, 35m above ground level on top of the still-under-construction Westfield Stratford City in east London.
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NewsGuide Dogs halt legal challenge against Exhibition Road scheme
The legal challenge against Dixon Jones’ £25 million Exhibition Road scheme has been “put on ice”.
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£50 million fund for colleges hit by funding scandal
Colleges caught up in last year’s Learning & Skills Council fiasco have been handed an extra £50 million ahead of today’s budget.
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NewsArchitects fear double dip recession, RIBA reveals
Architects are suffering a crisis of confidence as fears for a double dip recession grow.
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NewsRIBA issues warning over housing design standards
The RIBA has warned that architects working in London could be swamped by competing housing design standards when they come into force next year.
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FeaturesThe Architects and Developers Bike Race
50 architects and developers took to the streets of Smithfield in London to compete against each other in the London Festival of Architecture Smithfield Nocturne bike race.
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NewsMinister gives Brent Cross scheme green light
Communities secretary Eric Pickles has said he will not call in the controversial Brent Cross Cricklewood scheme, a £4.5 billion development masterplanned by Allies & Morrison.
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NewsAD's celebration speakers announced
Celebrated names from the last five decades of architecture will top the bill at the celebrations for the 80th anniversary of Architectural Design.
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NewsRogers defends scrapped Chelsea plan
Richard Rogers this morning defended his scrapped design for Chelsea Barracks and took another swipe at Prince Charles’ interference in the project as reminiscent of “feudalism”.
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NewsDCMS blunder over major post-war listing
The biggest post-war listing decision for a decade was made by a junior official in the DCMS last week and never ratified by the architecture minister, BD can reveal.
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NewsThird-time unlucky for West 8’s Jubilee plan
Dutch firm’s scheme in doubt despite winning the job on three occasions.