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Architecture graduate unemployment soars
Unemployment levels among architecture graduates have more than quadrupled in a year according to new figures released this week by the Higher Education Careers Services Unit (Hecsu)
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NewsBDP admits 2010 will cap profits
BDP has admitted that repeating 2009’s set of recession-busting results will be harder to achieve next year when public spending tightens
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Levete's Wapping wait
Amanda Levete’s redevelopment scheme for the News International site in Wapping, east London, has won the approval of Tower Hamlets planners
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NewsAtkins set to poach talent from design-led practices
Large commercial firms are using recession as opportunity to broaden their offer
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NewsFoster’s revised Shoreditch scheme wins council backing
Hackney Council in London has given the thumbs-up for Foster & Partners' £500 million Bishops Place regeneration scheme.
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NewsHamiltons founder retires as chairman
Tim Hamilton has retired as chairman of Hamiltons, the practice he founded in 1966.
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New school design resource from Architecture and Design Scotland
Architecture and Design Scotland (A&DS) launched a new school design web resource, Smarter Places, at Edinburgh University architecture department this week.
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Industry bodies launch new design review guide
A new guide to design review has been developed by Cabe, the RIBA, the Royal Town Planning Institute and the Landscape Institute.
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Eden landscaper to design Plymouth children's park
The Eden Project’s landscape architect is to design a showcase children’s park in Plymouth.
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NewsTemporary Leeds 'art park' shortlisted for award
Amenity Space’s temporary “art park” on a mothballed building site has been shortlisted for a prize in the Leeds Architecture Awards.
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NewsFirm takes steps for wheelchairs
Matthew Lloyd Architects is working with the Corps of Royal Engineers to design temporary water- and solar-powered wheelchair lifts at the Duke of York steps in central London.
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NewsWorld’s longest bench approved
The world’s longest bench, designed by Studio Weave for Littlehampton seafront, has won planning permission.
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NewsStalled Victoria scheme to start next year
Pelli Clarke Pelli’s stalled scheme for a 12-storey mixed block in London’s Victoria will start on site next year, after Land Securities confirmed it had set aside £200 million for speculative projects in London.
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Farrell favours low-carbon model for Thames Gateway
The Thames Gateway should become a model low-carbon development, Terry Farrell claimed this week.
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News£50m commission to transform Liverpool library
Austin-Smith Lord and conservation architect William Anelay have won the commission to design the new £50 million Liverpool Central Library and Archive as part of the Inspire Partnership, set up to bid for major PFI projects.
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NewsConran's Moonraker pods get go-ahead
Conran & Partners’ innovative scheme for student housing overlooking the Tate Modern at Bankside has been granted planning permission.
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Heritage bodies attack new planning proposals
The Royal Town Planning Institute has savaged the government’s PPS15 heritage proposals as a serious risk to the nation’s historic buildings and places.
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BDP bucks recession as profits triple
BDP has produced a recession-busting set of annual results with pre-tax profits for the year to June 2009 rocketing nearly 200% to £3.3 million.
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NewsAmerican Embassy sold to Qatari Diar
The American Embassy in Grosvenor Square has been sold to Qatari Diar Real Estate.
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NewsHull projects triumph in Yorkshire RIBA awards
Wright & Wright’s Hull Truck Theatre has swept the board at this year’s RIBA Yorkshire White Rose Awards, picking up three prizes.