All UK articles – Page 903
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NewsSt Pancras architect honoured with CBE
Alastair Lansley, lead architect on the St Pancras redevelopment, has gained a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to transport-related buildings.
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NewsBlears defended in Doon Street hearing
Former communities secretary Hazel Blears did not behave “irrationally” when she gave planning permission for the controversial Doon Street tower, the High Court heard this week.
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NewsSchool-build plans spark scepticism
Fears have been raised that up-and-coming practices could lose out on designing primary schools after it was announced the quango delivering BSF will take control of the school building programme.
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NewsHugill to chair HCA finance group
Former chairman of Lend Lease Nigel Hugill is to chair the new Housing Finance Group advising the Homes & Community Agency on private investment.
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NewsHopkins Greenwich plan in conservation row
The Victorian Society has called on Hopkins Architects to go back to the drawing board with its plans to revamp south-east London’s historic Greenwich Market.
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Positive signs in RIBA trend survey but students hit hard
The RIBA’s latest Future Trends survey shows tentative green shoots for the industry after months of gloom.
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Oldham and Gibb vye for Arb vice-chair
Two architects — the Arb Reform Group’s George Oldham and new Arb board member Gordon Gibb — have been nominated for the position of vice-chair of the organisation’s board.
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NewsGo-ahead for massive Thames Gateway housing project
The first phase of Barking Riverside – the largest single housing development in the Thames Gateway – has won planning permission.
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NewsCouncil approves EPR’s extension to Royal Automobile Club
EPR Architects’ scheme to extend central London’s Royal Automobile Club has been approved after a row over affordable housing threatened to scupper the plan.
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NewsMake's Vauxhall Octave tower in for planning
Make has submitted a mixed-use tower development in Vauxhall, south London, for planning.
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NewsDe-merger sparks London MD’s move
The managing director of Land Securities' London arm is leaving at the end of the month after seven years with the firm.
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NewsRogers demands inquiry into Charles's interventions in Chelsea Barracks
Richard Rogers has called for an official inquiry into the constitutional validity of Prince Charles’s interventions into the Chelsea Barracks project.
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NewsWolverhampton set for first youth shelter
Architect Sjolander da Cruz and engineer Buro Happold are behind the design for the first youth shelter in Wolverhampton.
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July deadline for RIBA's Whitworth Art gallery extension competition
The RIBA has given firms until July 15 to express interest in a competition to design a new gallery extension and alteration work at the grade II listed Whitworth Art gallery in Manchester.
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Grimshaw and Atkins to design Crossrail fixtures and fittings
Atkins is to join forces with Grimshaw Architects after winning the contract to ensure standardisation of fixtures and fittings across a series of new stations planned on London’s massive Crossrail scheme.
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London affordable housing design guide set to slash red tape and tackle overcrowding
Draft guidance on the design of affordable housing in London will be published early next month, the mayor’s key advisor on housing has revealed.
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NewsPrasad dismayed as Rogers loses Chelsea Barracks job
RIBA president Sunand Prasad has hit out at Prince Charles after developer Qatari Diar bowed to royal pressure and withdrew the planning application for Chelsea Barracks.
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Architecture is most exclusive profession
It costs more to qualify than in any other sector (and the salary is rubbish)
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NewsCivic square for Aberdeen stymies Brisac Gonzalez plan
Plans for a £140 million civic square for Aberdeen, landscaped by Martha Schwartz, were formally unveiled this week
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Hemp walls for campus home
Archial Architects has designed a new low-carbon three-bedroom home for the BRE Innovation Campus in Watford