All UK articles – Page 865
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Council backs library proposal
Austin Smith Lord’s plans for Liverpool Central Library have been approved by the city council
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NewsApproval for Huddersfield scheme too late for firm
Practice that designed £100m regeneration plan closed last year
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NewsV&A invites 10 firms to draw up new extension
Six years after Libeskind Spiral demise, museum changes tack with subterranean galleries
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NewsTributes paid to Alan Cherry, developer of Accordia
Richard Rogers led tributes this week to Alan Cherry, the housebuilder behind the Stirling Prize-winning Accordia development, who has died at the age of 76
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NewsIndustry refutes slur on 60s and 70s design
Chief construction adviser Morrell maligns generation of buildings
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NewsHaiti help ‘must be targeted’
The only British architect believed to have visited Haiti following this month’s earthquake has said firms wanting to help must go through the right aid agencies first
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Culture secretary rejects EH advice to list Preston bus station
Culture secretary Ben Bradshaw has rejected English Heritage’s recommendation to list Preston Central Bus Station and car park.
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NewsBoris: Battersea Power Station development does not comply with London Plan
London mayor Boris Johnson said today that Rafael Vinoly's £5.5 billion scheme does not yet comply with the London Plan but praised its architecture
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Schools secretary admits zero carbon target will not be met
The government will miss its target of making every new school building in England zero carbon from 2016, schools secretary Ed Balls admitted today.
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New school design think tank launched
A new think tank called the Centre for School Design has been launched by the British Council for School Environments.
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Olympic Village plans to cram athletes in
Fletcher Priest Architects has drawn up detailed plans for how the thousands of athletes and officials who will converge on east London for the 2012 Olympics will be accommodated.
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Greenpeace looks for 'fortress' architect
Greenpeace this week launched an architectural competition to help it build an ‘impenetrable fortress’ on land earmarked for the third runway at Heathrow Airport.
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Broadway writes off debt
Broadway Malyan has been forced to write off more than £800,000 in bad debt because UK and Middle Eastern firms that owed it money have gone bust.
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Prince Charles joins heritage body
The Prince of Wales has become the new patron of heritage group the Historic Towns Forum (HTF).
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NewsOlympic Park legacy plans revealed
A "poppy day" garden, complete with a war memorial and trees which will flower in red close to Remembrance Day, is being planned for the Olympic Park.
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Simpson's Kensington Palace plans to be redrawn
John Simpson has been sent back to the drawing board to redesign a controversial extension to Kensington Palace.
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Two teams in the running for Wandsworth schools programme
Foster & Partners, AHMM and Wired Architects are among the practices within the final two teams bidding for Wandsworth’s £300 million school building programme.
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NewsCabe slams Tottenham Stadium masterplan
Cabe has refused to support plans for a new stadium for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club drawn up by Make, KSS Design Group and Martha Schwartz.
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NewsTear down 60s and 70s buildings, says government adviser
The government’s new chief construction adviser has said buildings put up in the sixties and seventies should be torn down because it would be impossible to refurbish them to a sufficient standard laid down by green targets.