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NewsAnger as Foster keeps title despite quitting Lords
Pressure is growing on Norman Foster to give up his “Lord Foster” title following his resignation from the House of Lords.
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NewsWalters & Cohen given green light for Horniman Museum project
Walters & Cohen has won planning for a new community and education building at the grade II-listed Horniman Museum and Gardens in south London.
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NewsEarly concept sketches of the Olympic Park ArcelorMittal Orbit
These squiggles are the basis for the ArcelorMittal Orbit, the showpiece sculpture which will dominate the skyline of the 2012 Olympic Park.
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NewsEco-towns programme slashed
New Labour’s flagship environmental policy - eco towns – has become the latest victim of its successor’s austerity drive.
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News...as architects picked for Cornwall eco-town
The withdrawal of eco-town funding has coincided with the emergence of the first detailed designs for “show homes” for one of the four planned sites.
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NewsScrapping BSF could hit at least 1,500 architects, estimates suggest
The number of architects hit by the government’s decision to scrap the Building Schools for the Future programme is expected to reach at least 1,500.
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NewsKensington Palace plan appals design champion
Reworked plans for a new entrance for Kensington Palace by classicist John Simpson & Partners have been dismissed as “just a few steps above a garden shed”
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NewsElder & Cannon to revamp art deco gem
Elder & Cannon has been appointed to refurbish Rothesay Pavilion, one of Scotland’s most important art deco
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NewsGerrard O’Carroll dies at 47
Architect and academic Gerrard O’Carroll, has died from cancer at the age of 47.
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NewsFoster quits House of Lords to avoid paying full British taxes
Norman Foster has resigned from the House of Lords, more than two years after BD revealed he had become a Swiss resident
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EH warns of more buildings at risk
Town hall cuts could cause “catastrophic losses” to the nation’s historic buildings, the chief executive of English Heritage has warned.
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NewsTide turns for Western Esplanade
Conran & Partners has won approval to carry out the first construction work at Hove beach in nearly 100 years
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NewsBisset Adams submits Blackpool library plan
Bisset Adams’ designs for the £3 million remodelling of Blackpool Central Library have gone in for planning.
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NewsAA expands in Dorset and London
Students at the Architectural Association are to design their own campus in a Dorset wood thanks to the largest single gift ever given to the school.The AA has won outline planning for a development at Hooke Park, its rural outpost, on the basis of a masterplan designed by Andrew Freear ...
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NewsArchial and Woods Bagot both appoint joint MDs
Two major architectural practices, Archial and Woods Bagot, have rejigged their management teams and appointed joint managing directors
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NewsBeds house takes off
Platform 5 Architects has recently completed this private house in Bedfordshire
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Graduate prospects worsen
The Association of Graduate Recruiters has revealed that the number of graduates chasing each job now stands at 69 compared to 49 last year and 31 in 2008
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NewsHigher education funding in doldrums for next five years, conference told
Major funding for the higher education sector will not begin to return until 2015, a conference on London’s higher education estates was told yesterday.