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NewsHigh Court backs Doon Street tower go-ahead
The High Court has upheld the government’s decision to approve Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands’s controversial 43-storey Doon Street tower on London’s South Bank.
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Outline planning granted for new US embassy in Battersea
Wandsworth council last night granted outline planning permission for the controversial new US embassy at Nine Elms, Battersea.
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Buried pavilion plan for British Museum
More than a fifth of Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners’ rejected British Museum extension could be buried underground in a renewed bid to get it past planners.
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NewsEdward Cullinan's school gatehouse gets planning
Edward Cullinan Architects have won planning permission for a new gatehouse at the entrance to a north London primary school.
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No EH advice as council rules on OMA institute plan
Kensington & Chelsea Council will be forced to rule on the future of OMA’s controversial scheme to revamp the former Commonwealth Institute without the benefit of key advice from English Heritage.
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KPF's London partners quit to set up new practice
Five partners of Kohn Pedersen Fox’s London office have dramatically jumped ship to set up a new practice in the capital, BD can reveal.
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CompetitionsSeven shortlisted for Charleston competition
Seven practices have made it on to the shortlist for a competition to design a £3.5 million redevelopment at Charleston, the former country retreat of the Bloomsbury Set.
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RIBA's manifesto emphasises sustainability
The RIBA will unveil its manifesto for architecture at the Lib Dem party conference in Bournemouth next Tuesday before taking it to the Labour and Tory conferences.
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NewsDSDHA wins Clitheroe square contest
DSDHA has won a competition to design a public square for Clitheroe, a market town in the Pennines.
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NewsFirst 10 Kickstart housing schemes to start on site next month
The first 10 schemes to be bailed out by the Homes & Communities Agency’s Kickstart housing scheme will start on site next month.
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Prince's Foundation probed over lobbying accusation
The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment is being investigated by the Charity Commission after an allegation it is being used as the Prince of Wales’s “private lobbying firm”.
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NewsRoyal support for campaign to buy Seaton Delaval
Prince Charles has thrown his weight behind the National Trust’s campaign to buy one of John Vanbrugh’s most renowned buildings, Seaton Delaval in Northumberland.
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NewsPlan to build Britain's tallest bridge move a step closer
Sunderland City Council has agreed to progress Spence Associate’s landmark road bridge scheme over the River Wear, and hopes to submit a planning application by the end of the year.
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CompetitionsAtkins wins competition to design £300m Glasgow campus
Atkins and Scottish firm Michael Laird Partnership have won a competition for one of the largest college redevelopments in Europe.
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NewsTye’s woodland centre aims to make the most of its setting
Nicolas Tye Architects has won planning permission for its £700,000 Working Woodlands Centre in Bedfordshire
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Watchdog brands Arb Reform ad ‘misleading’
An advertisement calling on architects to vote for the Arb Reform Group and signed by the profession’s leading lights was misleading, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled
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NewsHeneghan Peng to design new Greenwich architecture school
Young practice Heneghan Peng has triumphed again in a major competition, beating the likes of David Chipperfield and Rafael Vinoly to design a £60 million new school of architecture for the University of Greenwich.
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NewsStonehenge visitor centre looks 'cheap and nasty'
Denton Corker Marshall’s designs for a £25 million Stonehenge visitor centre have been compared to an “immigration detention centre”, just weeks before the planning application is due to be submitted
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Holl to be hands-on after Glasgow win
Leading American architect Steven Holl will take a hands-on role in his firm’s winning designs for a new £50 million building for the Glasgow School of Art