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RIBA trends survey confirms fears women hit hardest by slump
Fears that woman architects are being hardest hit by the recession were today heightened by the RIBA’s latest Future Trends Survey.
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Athletes Village to be entirely publicly funded
The government has confirmed that the 2012 Olympic Athletes Village development will not now receive any private funding.
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Chester University plans £30m student accommodation project
The University of Chester has issued an OJEU notice to find a multi-disciplinary team to design and deliver a £30 million student accommodation project.
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Ideas competition launched by RIBA and Wrap
The RIBA and Wrap – the government's waste & resources action programme – have launched a joint ideas competition to find ways to reduce construction waste through design.
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NewsYoung practices team-up for shot at school design work
Duggan Morris, Glowacka Rennie, Gort Scott, Harry Dobbs Design and Matthew Springett Associates have formed a consortium to bid for work designing primary schools, and to hold design charettes with education departments of local authorities.
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NewsDownturn threat to Pathfinder scheme
The government’s £2.2 billion Pathfinder project to regenerate some of the most run-down parts of England is “being hit hard by the recession and may struggle to recover”, the Audit Commission warned this week.The Pathfinder scheme’s remit is to use public money to breathe new life into sink suburbs in ...
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NewsStonehenge visitor centre set for Airman's Corner site
Architecture minister Barbara Follett today announced that the long-delayed temporary visitor centre for Stonehenge will be built at Airman's Corner, 2km away from the stones, and outside the world heritage site (WHS) at a cost of £25 million.
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NewsPrince Charles warns of 'gulf' between architects and society
Plaudits for RIBA president’s robust defence of modernist architecture
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Government to set minimum design standards for all public buildings
The government is setting minimum design standards for every public building in the country.
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NewsPrince Charles's speech will emphasise architects' role as place makers
Prince Charles will use his RIBA lecture tomorrow night to tell architects that they are “first and foremost place makers and not designers of buildings”.
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NewsArchitecture Foundation set to move into modest new HQ
More than a year after ditching plans for a new headquarters building designed by Zaha Hadid, the Architecture Foundation is to move into a new home near London Bridge at the end of this month.
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NewsArchitecture minister under pressure over expenses row
Architecture minister Barbara Follett and communities secretary Hazel Blears are under intense political pressure after details of their expenses claims were made public.
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Alsop and Wilkinson lead calls for Prince Charles speech boycott
A group of leading architects are calling on their peers to boycott tomorrow night’s lecture at the RIBA by Prince Charles.
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Six on RIBA Worthing swimming pool competition shortlist
Six architects, including AHMM, Thomas Heatherwick, Ian Simpson and Wilkinson Eyre, have been shortlisted for the design phase of the Worthing swimming pool competition.
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NewsCabe under scrutiny as Tories get thrifty
Conservatives plan crackdown on quangos if they win next election
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Faber Maunsell renamed Aecom
The 80-year-old engineering giant Faber Maunsell, whose recent projects include Crossrail and the Halley VI Research Centre in Antarctica, has announced it is to adopt the name of its parent company Aecom
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Secret garden for Blackburn
Studio Weave and Mesh Partnership have won a competition to design a new public space in Blackburn, with a proposal for a “secret garden”
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Skilled jobs for migrants to be cut
The government’s Migration Advisory Committee has recommended that more than 100,000 skilled construction jobs should be immediately closed to migrant workers, due to the current job shortage in the UK
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News£1m media facelift
Maber Architects has designed a £1 million entrance for the media centre at Nottingham Trent University
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Ancient bones discovered at Farringdon Crossrail site
Preparation work has been halted on a Crossrail station after human remains were discovered