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NewsBritish Museum plan set to win approval
Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners’ proposal to expand the British Museum was set to be approved this week. Camden Council’s planning committee was expected to grant planning permission at a meeting yesterday (Thursday)
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NewsEnglish Heritage set to veto OMA institute plan
English Heritage is set to veto OMA’s plans for a comprehensive revamp of London’s former Commonwealth Institute
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Brown's £1.5bn social housing programme to siphon funds from existing projects
A £1.5 billion social housing programme announced by the government is being funded by money earmarked for hundreds of other public building projects.
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NewsLondon museum projects at risk due to DCMS budget shortfall
A budget shortfall of £100 million at the Department of Culture Media & Sport could threaten publicly funded projects including Rogers Stirk Harbour’s British Museum extension and Herzog & de Meuron’s Tate Modern extension.
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Welcoming City theme for 2010 London Festival of Architecture
Next year’s London Festival of Architecture is to take place around the theme of “The Welcoming City”.
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NewsAdjaye brought to brink of insolvency
Shelved projects around the world the cause of Adjaye's financial woes
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Middle-aged good, middle-class bad
Builders and other tradespeople should be encouraged to retrain as architects in mid-career, in an attempt to make architecture less exclusive, RIBA president Sunand Prasad said this week.
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Crisis talks over future of Glasgow's Lighthouse
A crucial board meeting to decide the future of the cash-strapped Lighthouse in Glasgow will be held at the start of next month.
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News2009 Stirling Prize shortlist unveiled
The Stirling Prize shortlist includes some unexpected choices, and at least two extremely strong ones, says Ellis Woodman
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NewsHodder’s Oxford art studio gives Mather’s masterplan a nudge
Hodder & Partners has won planning permission for a £3.75 million residential scheme and art studio in Oxford that will see the renovation of a grade II listed building by Edwardian architect Henry Hare
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Regenerate London suburbs’ town centres, says report for mayor
A report for the mayor of London says the capital’s suburbs should be regenerated through investment in existing town centres and the transport links between them.
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NewsPurcell Miller Tritton’s Martime Museum extension has go-ahead
Purcell Miller Tritton has secured planning permission and listed building consent for a new £35 million wing at London’s National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.
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New deal to save Elephant & Castle redevelopment
The £1.5 billion redevelopment of London’s Elephant & Castle has been thrown a lifeline.
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Landscape Institute management survive no confidence vote
A vote of no confidence in senior managers at the Landscape Institute has been lost by a margin of more to two to one.
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Purcell Miller Tritton in the running for Bath Abbey redevelopment
Purcell Miller Tritton is one of six firms in the running for a major redevelopment of the grade I listed Bath Abbey.
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Aukett shares tumble as Moscow scheme stalls
Aukett Fitzroy Robinson has said it expects its full-year results to be “significantly worse” than previously expected.
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Broadmoor blames listed status for patient suicides
Broadmoor Hospital has blamed its grade II listed status for a series of suicides.
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NewsUK branch of KPF makes bid to go solo
The UK branch of Kohn Pedersen Fox is reported to be set to split from its parent company in the US by buying itself out.
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Housing to be built on Walthamstow dog track
T P Bennett is working up plans to build housing on the site of Walthamstow Stadium, one of London’s last-surviving greyhound tracks.
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NewsBirmingham regeneration chief quits to join Newham
Clive Dutton, Birmingham City Council’s regeneration director, is leaving his post to take up an Olympics role at Newham Council in London.