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NewsFeilden Clegg Bradley 116m-high beacon commemorates Battle of Britain
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has completed early designs for a monument to rival the scale of the Angel of the North – a north London tribute to the Battle of Britain.
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NewsCabe backs Studio RHE’s east London tower
Cabe has given a cautious thumbs-up to Studio RHE’s plans for a striking 24-storey tower in east London.
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NewsScottish Enterprise insists on an 'international winner'
The RIAS has accused the public backers of a controversial Aberdeen scheme of freezing out Scottish design talent.
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Fears over planning job cuts in N Ireland
Plans to slash 300 jobs from the Northern Ireland Planning Service will lead to poor decisions that will damage the province’s built environment, it was claimed this week.
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NewsTesco blasts Cabe in development row
Tesco has accused Cabe of ignoring local residents after the design watchdog savaged its plans for a development in east London for a second time in three months.
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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.