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NewsLondon Festival of Architecture pavilion unveiled
Price & Myers have revealed their design for a temporary pavilion outside the offices of New London Architecture for this summer’s London Festival of Architecture.
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NewsEx construction minister to chair all-party group
A new group aiming to give more clout to the built environment profession in Westminster will be called the All Party Parliamentary Group for Excellence in the Built Environment
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NewsFerguson dismissive of Luder’s RIBA Council bid
George Ferguson has criticised fellow past RIBA president Owen Luder for his attack on Portland Place staff, telling him to “get back in his box”
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NewsPiano defends his ‘kind of miracle’
Renzo Piano has defended his controversial Central St Giles scheme, now finally completed eight years after the project began.
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NewsReed urges coalition to value architecture
RIBA president Ruth Reed has urged the new coalition government to give more value to the importance of architecture as it pursues its legislative programme for the coming year.
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NewsFactory Quarter all wrapped up
A £71 million housing development in west London designed by BPTW, Living Architects and GHM has been completed
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TechnicalAllies & Morrison’s St Andrew’s masterplan
Bricks take centre stage at the £130 million St Andrew’s scheme in east London
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Appeal for palace plans
A £1 million public appeal has been launched to help fund a revamp of Kensington Palace, which includes a controversial loggia by John Simpson.
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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.