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NewsNicholas Hare scoops top school design award
Nicholas Hare Architects has been named best school architect at the British Council for School Environments Awards.
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NewsGolden Square gets green light
A team including Bryant Priest Newman Architects, Capita Lovejoy and artist David Patten have won a competition to design a new square in the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham.
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NewsJohn Robertson go to town on circus
John Robertson Architects has completed the £64 million refurbishment of the Grade II listed Park House on London’s Finsbury Circus.
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NewsOlympic media centre wins planning
The Olympic Delivery Authority has won planning permission for the International Broadcast Centre and main press centre on the Olympic Park site in Stratford, after last-minute alterations were made to the designs.
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NewsNational Trust launches fundraising campaign for Giants Causeway
The National Trust has launched a public campaign to raise £2.25 million towards Heneghan Peng’s Giant’s Causeway million visitor’s centre.
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Gibb beats reform group candidate to be elected Arb vice chair
New board member architect Gordon Gibb has beaten Reform Group stalwart George Oldham to be elected vice-chair of the Arb.
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NewsRMJM to design athletes village for Glasgow Commonwealth Games (fly-through)
RMJM has won the competition to design the £300 million athletes village for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
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NewsChetwood suggests housing pods for MPs
Architect Laurie Chetwood has designed a new method of housing MPs without any room for suspect second home payments or unseemly profiteering from rising house prices.
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NewsRobin Hood Gardens exhibition will keep up pressure to save estate
The Twentieth Century Society has pledged to keep up efforts to save Robin Hood Gardens from demolition with the launch of a new exhibition at the RIBA.
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Half 1999’s buildings at risk have been saved, says English Heritage
Campaigners have welcomed news from English Heritage that almost half the grade I and grade II* listed buildings and monuments on its At Risk register a decade ago are no longer under threat.
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NewsSalisbury law court complex opens
A new law courts complex in Wiltshire designed by the Cambridge office of Feilden & Mawson has opened.
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Planning rules change will give projects more time to start
Developers are being given more time to start building work on schemes that have already have planning permission under new measures introduced by the government.
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NewsThe fine art of offices
London mayor Boris Johnson will open a Terry Farrell & Partners-designed office block on London’s Greenwich Peninsula next week
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NewsBoris backs Dixon Jones Exhibition Road scheme despite Guide Dogs protest
London mayor Boris Johnson is on course to revolutionise street design in the capital after strongly backing Dixon Jones’ Exhibition Road scheme in Kensington in the face of a high-profile protest by Guide Dogs for the Blind.
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Tuning up begins on opera project
Work began this week on the Nicholas Hare-designed Royal Opera House Production Park in Thurrock, Essex
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RIBA warns architects against cutting fees
The RIBA has renewed its campaign to stop architects working for reduced fees — or even for free — as the recession continues.
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NewsArchitecture minister lays into unacceptable condition of West End theatres
Architecture minister Barbara Follett has attacked the state of London’s historic theatres