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AWW scheme another victim of LSC fiasco
A scheme by AWW to build a new college on a former pork pie factory has officially been cancelled after the college failed to find alternative funding following the Learning and Skills Council funding debacle.
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Green light for shelter expansion
Featherstone Young has won planning permission to create a homeless shelter in London’s East End.
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Sheffield signs up design panel
Glenn Howells and BDP director Stephen Marshall are among the 31 names signed up to a new design panel for Sheffield.
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'Climate of fear' over student visas
New stricter monitoring of university students attendance is fostering a climate of fear and paranoia among architecture students, it was claimed this week.
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Clay mine eco-town contest launched
One of the four sites chosen by the government last summer for an eco-town will be subject to an architectural competition, which was launched this week.
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Court setback for Guide Dogs on Exhibition Road shared space scheme
A leading charity’s attempt to derail Dixon Jones’ revolutionary £25 million redesign of London’s Exhibition Road has suffered a major setback.
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Architect sought for new Essex university campus
Essex University is seeking architects to design a flagship academic building on its new “Knowledge Gateway” campus.
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Edaw masterplan could benefit from Cambridge bond issue
A masterplan drawn up by Edaw is one of two schemes Cambridge University wants to pursue by borrowing money for the first time in its 800 year history.
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NewsEveryone's a winner in council style wars
A central London council has given the green light to both a modernist and a classical design for the same site.
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Tories set to reveal 'localism' plans
The Conservative Party is poised to publish a definitive account of its proposals to overhaul the UK’s planning system later this month.
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Atkins consortium wins last major Crossrail design contract
Atkins, working with Arup and Allies & Morrison, has won the final contract to design a central London Crossrail station.
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Dexter Moren plans budget hotel for London’s Trocadero
Dexter Moren Associates has drawn up plans to turn London’s beleaguered Trocadero into a “pod” hotel.
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NewsMayor gives new hope to Make’s rejected Southall project
London mayor Boris Johnson has called in Make’s 33ha mixed-use scheme on a former gasworks site in Southall, west London, which was rejected in November.
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NewsChipperfield, Hoskins and Ferguson recognised in New Years Honours List
David Chipperfield, former RIBA president George Ferguson and architect Gareth Hoskins have received honours in the New Years Honours List.
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UK post-tsunami construction work praised
Reconstruction work funded by the UK public following the Boxing Day tsunami five years ago was among the best of its kind, a new report has found.
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NewsK2's Liverpool eco-house goes for planning
K2 Architects has submitted plans for a new eco-house on Merseyside.
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NewsSteffian Bradley’s Durham care centre completes
Steffian Bradley’s £12 million primary care centre for adults and children in County Durham has been completed.
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NewsBrady Mallalieu Architects docklands housing scheme completes
A housing scheme designed by Brady Mallalieu Architects in the shadow of London’s Canary Wharf has been completed.
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NewsPoet Liz Lochhead made RIAS honorary member
The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland has awarded an honorary fellowship to Glasgow’s poet laureate, Liz Lochhead.
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NewsMuse's Blackpool scheme goes for planning
Muse Developments has submitted a planning application for a £220 mixed-use scheme in Blackpool called Talbot Gateway.