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NewsDownland Prize recognises South’s best low-budget buildings
The RIBA has announced the winners of this year’s Downland Prize, for schemes in south and south-east England with a budget of less than £1 million.
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NewsBuckminster girl gives thumbs up
The only surviving child of Buckminster Fuller, the architect who invented the geodesic dome, has visited Nicholas Grimshaw’s Eden Project for the first time and declared it “beyond my wildest dreams”.
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Opposition grows to plan to sell off parkland to fund regeneration
Opposition is mounting to plans to sell off a tranche of west London parkland to fund its regeneration.
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Builders fined £130m for bid rigging
The Office of Fair Trading has fined more than 100 builders a total of nearly £130 million after finding them guilty of anti-competitive practice such as bid-rigging and cover pricing.
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NewsMargaret Hodge is architecture minister again
Margaret Hodge has been reappointed as architecture minister, in a shock move by 10 Downing Street.
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NewsDesign Engine's Oxford Brookes scheme refused planning
Design Engine’s £132 million redevelopment of Oxford Brookes University has been refused planning permission.
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NewsM&S 1930s Oxford Street store is grade II listed
Marks & Spencer’s flagship Pantheon store on Oxford Street was granted grade II listed status today.
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NewsJournalist and archivist Monica Pidgeon dies at 96
Monica Pidgeon, the grande dame of British architecture, has died aged 96.
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NewsArchitects on the dole pass the 2,000 mark
The number of architects on the dole has passed the 2,000 mark, a doubling of the figure signing on just seven months ago.
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Singing plan to save threatened churches unveiled
Choirs will perform in 40 of the most significant disused churches in England over the first weekend of October as part of a campaign to save the buildings for future generations.
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NewsRichard Rogers quits role as advisor to London mayor Boris Johnson
Richard Rogers is resigning from his role as an advisor to London mayor Boris Johnson, he announced today.
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NewsOMA's Commonwealth Institute scheme wins planning
OMA’s long-awaited plans for the former Commonwealth Institute have been given the go-ahead by Kensington and Chelsea council.
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NewsBlackheath modern
Shoreditch-based AAVA Architects has submitted plans for a £550,000 contemporary house in Blackheath, south-east London
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NewsBiggest practices hit by collapsing profits
HOK, Hamiltons and Broadway Malyan all face bleak news with little respite forecast
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HCA plays down design criteria for Kickstart
The Homes & Community Agency has downplayed Cabe’s role in vetting hundreds of major housing projects hoping to be bailed out under its £1 billion Kickstart initiative
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NewsNew foyer adds brass section to Bristol’s Colston Hall
Levitt Bernstein Associates’ £21 million copper-clad foyer building for Bristol’s Colston Hall opens today
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NewsTop partners quit KPF to go it alone
The top five partners at Kohn Pedersen Fox’s London office have dramatically jumped ship to set up a new practice after an attempted buyout earlier this summer was thwarted
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NewsFirms vie for £355m Coventry schools deal
Contract for nine schools and 11 refurbs is biggest BSF project ever
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NewsStirling finalists throw open doors
Two of the capital’s Stirling Prize finalists are among the 700 buildings opening their doors to the public for this weekend’s Open House London
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Cathedral window faces collapse
Parts of Canterbury Cathedral are falling down and experts have warned that the building as a whole is “in serious jeopardy”