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Tributes paid to architectural assistant killed in cycling accident
Tributes have been paid to the Metropolitan Workshop architectural assistant killed on her bike at a London roundabout earlier this month.
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NewsLeading architects protest over prince's interference in Rogers scheme
Some of the world’s leading architects have publicly called on Prince Charles to stop meddling in the planning process for Richard Rogers’ controversial Chelsea Barracks scheme in west London.
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NewsArchitecture minister lists 19 historic military buildings
Nearly 50 military buildings dating from the Napoleonic War to the first world war have been listed or given added protection by architecture minister Barbara Follett.
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NewsTories propose massive green retrofitting programme
The Conservatives have outlined plans to give every home in Britain a grant of up to £6,500 to pay for green retrofitting improvements, which could provide extra work for architects.
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NewsWapping in for planning
Amanda Levete Architects’ designs for remodelling Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation headquarters have been submitted for planning
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NewsMoxon's hedgehog gets go-ahead
Moxon Architects has been given the green light by city planners in Preston, Lancashire, to press ahead with plans for a £8 million spiky office building, dubbed the “hedgehog”
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NewsFarrell sees profits rocket
Pre-tax profits at Terry Farrell & Partners soared fivefold last year, to £2.5 million, according to annual accounts filed at Companies House last week
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Futures Fair to focus on society
The RIBA think-tank Building Futures has announced details of this year’s Futures Fair
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Edgbaston design hits sticky wicket
Broadway Malyan’s plans for a stadium development at Edgbaston cricket ground in Birmingham suffered a major blow last week, when councillors rejected planning officers’ recommendations and deferred their decision on the scheme
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NewsEarly cinema given second showing
Pollock Hammond Partnership has completed a £2 million restoration project on Scotland’s first purpose-built cinema, in Bo’ness
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NewsBurnham urged to review Wilson house delisting
Twentieth Century Society claims English Heritage is under-resourced
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Feilden Clegg Bradley cuts its staff
Stirling Prize winner Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has become the latest big-name architect to shed jobs, confirming this week that it had laid off 17 staff
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Work begins on Weston Grand Pier
Work has begun on Angus Meek Architects’ redevelopment of Weston-super-Mare’s fire-ravaged Grand Pier
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NewsCommonwealth arena off the starting blocks
3DReid and Sports Concepts have won planning permission from Glasgow City Council for the main stadium and velodrome for the 2014 Commonwealth Games
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Cabe wants Ardley plant rethink
Cabe has called on Kent-based Architecture & Planning Solutions to rethink its approach to a new waste and recycling facility in Ardley, Oxfordshire
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NewsArchitects: give us protection of function
An overwhelming majority of architects are in favour of a change in the law to protect architects’ function as well as title, new research by BD suggests
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V&A seeks architect-in-residence
The Victoria & Albert Museum has teamed up with the RIBA to offer a UK chartered architect a six-month residency
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Homes adapted for army injured
Housing minister Iain Wright has announced an initiative to provide seriously injured former servicemen and women better access to specially adapted social homes
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NewsWarning over 2012 press centre legacy
A host of media companies may abandon plans to move into Allies & Morrison’s £355 million Olympic press and international broadcast centre after the 2012 Games because of “serious concerns” over its design
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NewsHCA sets up developer panel to help spend £17bn
A new “super panel” of developers is being set up by the Homes & Communities Agency to help it spend hundreds of millions of pounds on building residential and mixed-use schemes in the next three years